Jackfish Alley
Ras Mohammed drift with sunlit swim-throughs at 5 and 15 m, then an alley of jackfish and whitetip reef sharks.
- Advanced
- Cavern
- Whitetip reef sharks
Advanced≤30 m
Shark & Yolanda Reef
Dive site in Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed, Egypt
Ras Mohammed's twin reefs: snappers form a tornado-like wall and summer brings schools of jacks, tuna and batfish.
- Usual dive
- 30 m
- Deepest point
- 35 m
- Level
- Advanced
- Best months
- Sep–Nov
- Current
- Strong
The story
The cargo ship Yolanda grounded on a reef at Ras Muhammad on 1 April 1980. The hull fell off the reef in a storm in March 1987, but her cargo, including British toilets, bath tubs and pipes, is still visited by recreational divers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The dive
A drift and wall dive. Known for grey reef sharks, hammerhead sharks and tuna.
Who it's for
Advanced≤30 mSource: circledivers.com
Recommended minimum: Advanced (PADI Advanced Open Water, N2).
- CurrentCurrent can be strong; you need good air management and buoyancy.
- DriftYou move with the current and surface away from where you started.
- Strong current: dive with a local guide and carry a surface marker buoy.
- The site goes deeper than 30 m: Advanced divers stay above 30 m.
Conditions
- Dive type
- Drift, Wall, Reef, Wreck
- Environment
- Open water
- Water
- Sea water
What you might see
- Grey reef sharks
- Hammerhead sharks
- Tuna
- Trevally
- Anthias
- Batfish
- Moray eels
- Napoleon wrasse
- Snappers
Season in Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
- Best
- Good
- Possible
- Closed
- Not documented yet
Best months: Sep–Nov.
Source: circledivers.comWhere is Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed?
The point shows the Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed area, not the exact dive site.
More dives in Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed
SS Thistlegorm
WWII supply ship bombed on 6 October 1941; holds still carry Bedford trucks and Norton and BSA motorcycles.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Turtles
SS Dunraven
Upturned steamer launched in 1872 that sank in 1876, lying from 15 m at the bow to 29 m at the stern.
- Advanced
- Wreck
- Moray eels
Ras Katy
Sharm pinnacles where red tooth triggers and Red Sea bannerfish gather over the reef.
- Open Water
- Pinnacle
Macro
down to 28 m
Sharks Bay
Shore-entry training site: a coral plateau from 5 m to a ~20 m drop-off with glassfish pinnacles, Napoleon wrasse and eagle rays.
- Advanced
- Eagle rays
Pinnacle
down to 30 m
Fiddle Garden
A sandy slope to an 18 m drop-off with glassfish pinnacles at 10-16 m and amphora fragments in about 6 m of water.
- Open Water
- Barracuda
About this page
Values marked “Estimated” come from our original catalogue and are being checked against published sources one by one. Sourced values link to where they come from. Conditions change with the season, the weather and the tide: confirm with a local dive centre before you dive.
Photo credits
- Jackfish Alley dive site, Ras Mohammed, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- SS Thistlegorm dive site, Northern Red Sea Wrecks, Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dunraven Wreck dive site, Sharm El Sheikh / Gulf of Suez, W.Strickling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Giant moray in the coral at Ras Katy, Sharm El Sheikh, Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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