Dive Site

This is a very unique and rare diving opportunity... diving upside-down is a strange but super cool experience

We don't talk about the Cathedral, Aqaba's best kept secret.

Discovered by Linda Dean in 2017

17 Pieces of military equipment have been placed on the sea bed in 18 - 28m depth.  The place is from the bottom of an eel grass bank (habitat to sea horses and much more) to the start of the solid coral reef at 28m. This are was previously sparse with marine life. This museum, as well as being a great attraction for divers, will provide habitat for a wide variety of marine life and provide places for new corals to settle.

This dive site is now exclusively open to Dive Aqaba, and cannot be done with any other dive centre in Aqaba

This site lies deep off Kiwi Reef. Rod, our team leader had located this archway when diving with an army expedition to Aqaba in 1996, due to the depth being unsuitable for recreational divers the diving was limited to the pinnacles of Kiwi Reef. The team made a relocation dive in late 2004 helped by tec divers Dave Evans and Chris Bowmer and now is a popular dive among our tekkies. Can be reached from either boat or shore. Recommended bottom gas Tmx16/24

Kiwi Reef is named after " Bevan Airey " a diver from New Zealand who discovered this amazing place while on an exploratory dive with Rod. At the bottom of a grass slope there are numerous small pinnacles which form a breeding ground for juvenile fish. Each has it's own little eco system. Here you will find many moray eels, lionfish, burr fish, shoals of damsel fish and several large Emperor fish. Each time we dive there something new is discovered. This is a favourite dive with underwater photographers.

This wreck lies deep off the Eel Canyon dive site, to the West of Kirk's Forest in 38 - 58m. The ship is lying on her starboard side across two reefs lying West to East (bow to the East) this means that depths of over 60m can easily be acheived under the wreck. She was scuttled by the Aqaba Marine Park on 18th June 2008. As she started to sink she started to drift and could have easily ended up in over 100m of water, they managed to push it back to diveable depths just before she slipped beneath the waves creating a new exciting site for technical divers.

Sometimes called " New Canyon " although it is very old! Named after German PADI Instructor " Oliver Wolf " who discovered the site by accident looking for Eel canyon from the shore! Hence the name " New Canyon " by other centers who then saw us diving somewhere new! The dive starts at two blocks of coral known as " the twins " after having a quick look around here the dive can be made with a circular route around the two canyons with a tour around the table corals (once referred to as walking through Granniesgarden).

More popularly known as " The Tank " This American M42 Duster with a self propelled Anti-aircraft canon was originally in employ of the Jordanian Army it was scuttled as an artificial reef on September 1st 1999 by the Jordanian Royal Ecological Diving Society and has since accumulated a lot of marine life. Some reports in the diving press that it was Russian came from ill informed visitors. The compressed air start tanks at the back of the engine bay are marked with a working pressure in psi. Russian would be bar or kilopascals.

A whole series of great coral pinnacles provides a wonderful shallow dive that you can well over an hour observing the marine life or taking pictures of it. There are two sets of pinnacles - Seven Sisters and the Fairy Ring, each has its own unique ambience. You will find shoals of fusiliers everywhere and the odd large barracuda patrolling. You can also travel another 60m south from the Fairy ring and include the now famous M42 Duster (a.k.a."The Tank") in your dive.