Marsa Diving

Samadai (Dolphin House)
This lagoon 18km south-east of Marsa Alam is home to three dive sites with a reef system full of interesting coral pinnacles and fish life. What makes Samadai so special.
though, is the pod of spinner dolphins (numbering up to 480) that regularly visits the lagoon
Sha'ab Samadai.
The Samadai reef, also called the Dolphin House, is probably the most famous diving site near Marsa Alam where you can see dolphins

Spinner dolphins 2,11m 78kg
Highly acrobatic, often jumps and spins up to 3 m above the surface. Occurs in small groups that regularly visit offshore patch reefs. Small inshore groups may fuse into larger groups of thousands to feed in the open sae often accompany Tunas, making them vulnerable to drowning in purse-seine nets. Usually shy. Gestation lasts 12 months. Size at birth as small as 60 cm. Common in Red Sea.

MOSES SOLE
Dark spots and ocelli with yellow flecks;eyes on right side, mouth below snout.
BIOLOGY : inhabits shallow sandy areas near reefs, 1 to 15 m. Common, but usually completely buried except for eyes and nostrils. Secrets a milky toxin from pores at the base of D and A fins.
RANGE : Red Sea and Arabian Gulf to Sri Lanka, s. to S. Africa.

Oceanic Whitetip Shark
Longimanus. 3.5m
Fins rounded with white tips, P fins very large.
BIOLOGY : pelagic, near surface to at least 150 m over deep water, rarely near shore. In the Red Sea, regularly visits five boats moored at offshore islands and reefs. Almost always accompanied by pilot fish, often accompanied pilot whales.
Potentially dangerous, may persistently circle divers. Few attacks reported. Litter size 2 to 15.
Range: Red Sea, Marsa Alam .

Dugong dugon 3.3m ; 400kg
(record : 4.1 m , 1,000kg)

BIOLOGY :
inhabits shallow estuarine and costal waters, usually among mangroves or in seagrass beds, occasionally curious of divers.
In EGYPT,
consistently seen south of Qusier(Mangrove Bay, Nabaa Bay, Marsa Abu Dabbab, Shams Alam Reefs, Ras Banas).
Also in the Gulf of Suez, Turan Is.,
Sudan and the Dahlak Archipelago. Estimates of 4,000 in the Red Sea and 6.000 in the Arabian Gulf may be too high.

RANGE :
Red Sea and Arabian Galf to Vanuatu and Gilbert Is., N. To S. Japan, S. To Madagascar and Australia.