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Yanbu Dive Site's.
Farasan Banks Dive Site's.
Farasan Banks
Dive Site's.
Farasan Bank Diving
All Farasan Bank diving is wall
diving, on the East and West of the islands the wall is down to in
some places 500 meters on the Northern and Southern points we have
flats and plateau's from 10 to 30 meter these flats have sandy
bottoms some are channels some of them forming sand highways running
half way around the reef.
MarMar
On the Eastern side of this site the wall slopes from down to
200 meters, these walls are spotted with caverns, lagoons and small
caves many with small reef shark inside, on the southern tip we have
a sand highway going from east to west ending in a turquoise lagoon
thick with fish. On the northern tip we have a dive site called the
washing machine, names thus for the extreme current 2 to 3 kts
coming from the north to the south west, we have dived with manta,
white tip shark, on a good day this site will give you the ride of
your life, dive safely, dive with a buddy go with the flow you will
have a fast, furious safe dive.
Dohra
This is a one of the main turtle
nesting islands, on and around this site we have seen large
populations of turtle, coral grouper, blue spotted grouper, purple tang, lyre
tail coral fish, many varied different color of soft corals, reef shark white and black tip shark, blue spotted sting
ray and even tiger shark.
Shib Ammar
This reef far to the South of the
main group of islands, we call dolphin reef as we usually see
dolphin inside sometimes in great numbers, this is the only reef
that we have found we can sail Dream Voyager inside the reefs lagoon
and anchor so we have protection in any weather.
Gorgonian Point
This totally submerged reef is has
its name suggests, at a depth of 30 to 40 meters on the Eastern side huge
Gorgonian Fans, shark, manta and always giant bump head parrot fish are seen,
at the Southern tip at a depth of 25 meters
four complete corral heads are made up of only bubble corral, during
the season the Southern tip is a mass of juvenile cuttel fish
attached to every piece of corral in the vicinity.
Dannak
This dive site has a channel type
area which is located at eastern side of the island. You can find
red snapper, stone or scorpion fish, blue spotted sting ray,
barracuda, black & White tip reef shark, turtle, moray eel, bump
head or buffalo parrot fish, brain coral, stinging coral and black
coral.
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