Green sea turtle

Photo: Shankar Meyer · CC BY-NC

Green turtles are the signature encounter at Marsa Mubarak, with up to a dozen individuals reliably feeding in the seagrass meadows on any given morning dive. Adults at this site are habituated to diver presence and often continue grazing with divers hovering within a few metres, offering extraordinary behavioural observation opportunities. As adults they are almost exclusively herbivorous, and sites like Marsa Mubarak with intact, extensive seagrass beds are critical to the Egyptian Red Sea population's recovery.