Steep walls falling into the deep blue, currents, soft corals and a great abundance of pelagics and all kinds of fish. Good dives on both north and south plateaus, with strong currents which favour the growth of all types of coral, including black, soft and fans. Morning dives at Shoab Sharm,Big reef with big walls, hammerhead and grey reef sharks in summer, malabar grouper, barracuda s, and schooling reef fish the rest of the year. Alam Large reef in front of the last southern civilian town on the Egyptian coastline. The sheer walls of this great reef plunge steeply into the blue, richly decorated with soft corals, sponges, gorgonians and fans.
Sharks often swim by the spot to feed on the abundant reef fish population.
The northern plateau is home to schooling hammerheads with frequent sightings of oceanic white tip sharks overnight at Shoona. A Ferry carrying pilgrims returning from Mecca, sank in 1992 after hitting the reef at night. 300 victims perished in one of the greatest marine tragedies of all time. There is very little growth on this wreck and few fish have taken up residence apart from an occasional frogfish. Many divers avoid this site considering it a morbid forbidding place.