Scuba diving in Hamata/Berenice can be performed from shore, or with comfortable boats going out for a day or a half-day trip. The area offers some of the top-class dive sites in the Red Sea Riviera. Places such as the fabled Qulan Islands, Sha’ab Makhsour, Sha’ab Ossama, Sattaya and Sha’ab Claude are now almost at your doorstep and reachable on day trips.
Here are some of the most famous dive sites in Hamata/Berenice:
Sattaya: the second Dolphin House of the South. A crescent-shaped large reef home to a huge pod of timid Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris).
Sha’ab Makhsour: only for experienced divers, this is the big tower plummeting to unfathomable depths where there is a constant passage of pelagics, with the highest number of shark species present in the Red Sea
Sha’ab Claude: a scuba diver playground, with its labyrinth of coral canyons, crevices and overhangs playing awesome natural light and sound shows.