Shark Reef, Ras Mohammed

Shark Reef is the jewel of Ras Mohammed National Park and one of the most exhilarating reef dives in the world. The reef rises from the sandy seafloor as an isolated pinnacle, its upper reaches crowned with table corals and enormous sea fans, and the walls plunging vertically into the blue. Schools of barracuda spiral above the reef top in shining silver tornadoes, while trevally attack from below and sharks cruise the deeper ledges. The encounter with schooling hammerheads in autumn is the stuff of diving legend. Visibility here regularly exceeds 30 m, and the current that sweeps the reef corner concentrates plankton and the pelagic fish that feed on it into a breathtaking wall of life.