Tell us . Despite Sudan's ongoing civil war, clumsy tourism by untrained divers continues to damage its Sha'ab Rumi and Sanganeb reefs, among the richest in the Red Sea. A diver was seen to sit on a large brain coral to pose for the camera.
Photographers regularly sit, lie or kneel on corals while taking photographs.
In one case I observed a pair of divers remove large chunks of the reef to get a closer view of a moray eel hiding in a crevice, only to find the eel swim off in a panic.