Dive Site

Site of the famous " pinnacle " - Named after the myriads of garden eels resident in the sand and grass areas here. One of the largest populations in the Red Sea!This provides an excellent area for photography. There is a sandy slope down to 20m (covered in garden eels - you need to stay still for them to appear) where there is a fantastic display of black corals. There are several small pinnacles on the slope. One of these has an amazing reputation for the more unusual marine life. Including Maurice the moray eel with his famous cleaner shrimp Jacques.

This site is so named because of many recreational divers getting into trouble here because of the strong down current, at the bottom of the valley depths can reach 100m plus. The fan corals are prolific at from 40m down here as they catch nutrients caused by upwelling of water from the depths, there is an amazing display of giant whip corals rising up from the reef at 55m plus. To the south after crossing another George's gulley you come to Walter's Wall which heads out to the south west covered in huge fan corals.

From try dives to technical diving - this site provides for all - Diving south from the mooring you find a cabbage coral at 18m on the corner of the reef follow the wall back to the north and follow the contour of the reef. (For tec divers continue straight out to Death Valley starting at 50m and then south to Walter's Wall and George's Gulley which drops to 80m plus).

New mooring in place opens up this site for boat diving - A great dive from 6m down to 40m. There is a pinnacle with a " Phallic " shape to th west of the mooring at 15m. This is a good reference point if diving deeper on this site. To the north and towards the Marine Science station is an are that has been a protected area since before the marine park. There are many cleaning stations here and many interactions of different species can be observed. This makes an excellent area for photography...check some of these pics below!!

This new tec site lies deep off the Power Station dive site towards the container port. The area was first reached by Rod, Dorit and Everette on 13th August 2007 on a 75m Trimix dive. Dorit and Rod planned to return to explore deeper. After a warm up simulation dive to 60m at Kiwi Arch the previous day on 15th September a deep exploration dive was carried out by Dorit and Rod with a maximum depth of 104m. This dive revealed an amazing seascape and an urge to explore deeper into the beckoning abyss!

This site lies deep off the Power Station dive site.

Aqaba's famous wall dive! The Power Station is actually named after the small oil fired power station on the coast road to the North of the dive site that has since been demolished. This is the place where, on the chart, the one hundred and two hundred metre contour lines hit the coast. It is a spectacular wall dive, either to the North or South of the mooring. Sharks and other large pelagics are often spotted here. Sea turtles are often spotted here along with several humphead wrasse and some large moray eels.

This place offers lots of possibilities for all levels of divers. Nearer to the actual Power Station than the famous wall dive we find a gentle coral slope from 5m down to 50m interspersed with coral pinnacles abounding in small fry providing a feeding ground for all kinds of predators and great digital photo opportunities for divers. There is a really good area just behind the mooring, great for tec divers with deco to complete! All divers should visit the area at about 28m where the photo to the left was take

Scuttled for divers in 2019, making another unique dive in Aqaba. This was a military transport aircraft, so like a passenger plane. Doors have been removed allowing easy access to the interior so that the diver is never far room an entrance. Care is needed as this is still an overhead environment. As of this writing some marine life has started to make the aircraft its home, in the future this will increase and in a few year coral growth will become significant.  So also a great place to revisit and observe changes over time.