The Red Sea around Egypt is a very popular place for a Scuba Diving Vacation.

Here is a story (like an overview) of Scuba Diving in Red Sea by Clint Leung. It seems that each region in the world has a favourite spot for Scuba Divers. The Carribean is North America’s favourite, the Red Sea is for European Scuba Divers and The Great Barrier Reef for Australasian Scuba Divers.

I’m not going to “put my foot in my mouth” and say which is better because I really don’t know. Even if I had dived at all 3 Scuba Diving vacation spots, I still couldn’t give a real opinion. I believe that each scuba diving destination has it’s own specialities.

RedSeaScuba has a lot of information about a Scuba Diving Vaction in the Red Sea

Scuba Diving Magazine have a guide to Scuba Diving vacations in Red Sea written by readers of the Magazine. They say that the lack of fresh water flowing into the sea, and the intense evaporation causes the Red sea to be saltier than most. The water is cooler, the seas are choppy , and visibility varies.

They also say here that:

Depending on which part of the Egyptian Red Sea you visit, you can dive shallow patch reefs, deep walls and shipwrecks, but for many divers, the best diving is found on coral ergs. Seamounts, pinnacles or bommies by other names, these coral mountains rise to within feet of the surface, offering shallow coral gardens swarmed by tropical fish and deep coral walls tended by massive pelagics.

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