Red Sea Diving
28°01.063′ N – 34°29.242′ E n August 1984 the ship Kormoran, built in 1963 in the Rostock shipyards (Germany) was coming from Aqaba with a cargo of phosphate when an error in navigation caused it to hit the northern side of the reef bordering the island of Tiran, known by divers as Laguna Reef. The …
28°00.119′ N – 34°27.970′ E located between Thomas Reef and Jackson Reef. Woodhouse Reef is narrow and long and thus offers no shelter at all to boats and has no fixed moorings. Consequently scuba divers in this spot must make a drift dive – and this must be done only in good weather conditions. The …
27°59.437′ N – 34°27.644′ E This reef is one of the most spectacular diving sites in the northern Red Sea. The lack of mooring points makes drift diving necessary: the southern corner of the reef is the classic starting point for your underwater itinerary, which continues along the eastern side where the wall, rich in …
27°59.847′ N – 34°28.915′ E The western side of Tiran Island is bordered by a madreporic formation standing over a splendid coral lagoon with an average depth of 10 to 12 meters, and known by scuba divers as Laguna Reef. A transverse hard coral wall divides the lagoon into two parts – North and South …
28°00.354′ N – 34°28.283’E Jackson Reef is the most northerly reef in Tiran and is known for the wreck, partially demolished in 1996, of the Cypriot merchant ship Lara (a cargo boat of 4,752 tonnes), which sank here in December 1981. Diving here usually begins on the southern side, which is sheltered from the waves …
27°59.097′ N – 34°27.250′ E Gordon Reef is known and easily identified by the wreck of the Panamanian cargo ship Loullia (3,461 tonnes), which ran aground on the northern end in September 1981. The fact that there is a fixed mooring on the southern side and a wide and rather shallow (10-24 meters) plateau that …