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Why choose this route?

  • The Fury Shoals are consisted of several reefs along the Southwest Red Sea coast, offering amazing scuba diving opportunities with some of the most pristine reefs in Egypt.
  • The hard and soft corals are unspoiled and are a highlight of many dive sites such as the Fury Shoal Garden.
Fury Shoals (Mini Safari)

Abu Galawa Soghayar

Abu Galawa Soghayar has a fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat that sank in the 80ies and it´s full of soft corals and it's populated with glass fishes.

Abu Galawa Kebir

Abu Galawa Kebir is also home to a wreck. The Chinese barge named Tien Hsing sank in 1943 and lays between 5 m and 18 m depth directly at the reef and through the years even became a part of this reef.

Shaab Claudio

Access: by boat.
Depth: between 5 and 25 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 121 km south of Marsa Alam
Description: Shaab Claudio is a part of the Fury Shoals and is a popular cruising destination. It is a reef that is relatively protected from the wind, which offers several styles of diving in one. The landscapes are consisting of fantastic coral gardens, mountains of hard corals and a canyon with a crystalline visibility and where the play of light is fascinating.
Very rich, Shaab Claudio, is home to nudibranches, yellowfin goatfishes, trigger fishes of all kinds, parrot fishes, a multitude of schools of banner fishes, angelfishes, snappers and nasons but also Napoleons and turtles.

Shaab Maksur

Shaab Maksur is a narrow but long reef formed with two plateaus in the northern and southern edges, east and west walls offering a mild current as you can drift all over the walls consisting of magnificent reef formations.
At the north terraced plateau, you can see often dolphins, barracudas or reef sharks passing by. The south plateau with its bigger coral blocks is home to many species such as turtles, eagle rays, snappers and many more.

Shaab Sataya (DOLPHIN REEF)

Access: by boat.
Depth: between 5 and +40 meters.
Minimum level: all levels of divers and snorkelers.
Location: 130 km south of Marsa Alam.
Description: Shaab Sataya in the south east of the Fury Shoals area, stretches for 5 km long, in a crescent shape and sheltering a large lagoon where it is easy to take shelter. It is the ideal place to come for scuba diving but it is also renowned for swimming freely with the long-billed dolphins, to listen to them underwater and to see them playing with each other. The reefs are fabulous, pinnacles adorned with corals and magnificent drop-offs. Species such as trevallies, barracudas, rays, lion fishes, angelfishes, scorpion fishes, crocodile fishes and turtles can be spotted. With a little bit of luck you may even see a whale shark at certain times of the year.

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