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Marsa Alam overview

Wrecks:

• Tienstin Wreck

Reefs:

• Abu Dabab
• Abu Galawa Kebir
• Abu Galawa Small
• Dolphin Reef
• Elphinstone Reef
• Fury Shoal Garden
• Habili St John's Wood
• Habili Washour
• Little Reef
• Malahi
• The Nursery
• Orabi
• Samadai
• Sernara Island
• Sha'ab Claudia
• Sha'ab Maksour
• Sha'ab Marsa Alam
• Sha'ab Sataya
• Shabrour Lahami
• St John's Wood
• Umhalhala

Resources & Links:

Dive Centers:

• Aquarius Diving Club
• Discovery Divers
• Emperor Divers
• Gulf Divers
• Zizinia

Diving Tour Operators:

• blue o two
• Sunshine Diving
• Zizinia

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Scuba Diving in Marsa Alam, the Red Sea

Reader Reviews:

Dive Site: Tienstin Wreck

Location: Fury Shoals, Marsa Alam

Description: Japanese tug boat

Depth: 18 metres (57 feet)

Visibility: 30 metres (100 feet)

Rating: ****

This is an excellent dive, the Tienstin is a small Japanese tug boat and is covered with hard and soft corals. Inside she is full of glassfish and a resident red mouth grouper also lives here. The wreck lies at approximately a 45 degree angle with the stern sitting in the sand at the bottom of the reef and the bow rests shallow on the reef top. This is a wreck that is now totally infested with colourful reef life of all kinds.

Just behind the bow you will find a break in the reef that leads to a fair sized cavern. This is nice to swim in as the sun shines down, to admire the red rock morphology formed by the waves. However there is not much life in here - it is just something else to explore. We also saw Red Sea groupers, teeny pipefish and a variety of parrotfish and surgeonfish on this dive. This is a reasonably sheltered site so we were able to do a night dive here. Having explored it already in the day it was fascinating to come back and see how different the Tienstin looks at night. The first thing to notice is that all the glassfish disappear from inside the wreck but I have absolutely no idea where they had gone! This left the inside of the wreck empty, shining my torch I came across the toilet where a parrotfish had made a mucus bed on top of it. At night we saw a snowflake moray eel and a beautiful Spanish dancer was rhythmically floating around as well as lots more pipefish, a few lionfish and many feather stars. The cave is nice and atmospheric to pop into. This is an easy fun dive with lots of photo opportunities.

Carina Hall, PADI Divemaster

Have done this as a dusk dive into a night dive. Jumping in near to the wreck we had a fin about then swam to the left following the reef, to return when the darkness descended to make two dives on this wreck. Nice easy dive well sheltered good for night diving. Similar to the Barge at Bluff Point in my opinion. Ideal liveaboard night dive.

Ian Higgins, PADI Assistant Instructor

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