Overview
Ras Mohammed is the southernmost point of the Sinai, dividing the sea waters between the Tiran Strait to the east and the Gobal Strait to the west.
Description
The cape takes its name from the steep rocky coast a little to the east, where you can recognize the face of a bearded man sculpted into the rocks by the elements: the Head of the Prophet
Ras Mohamed is one of the world's most famous dive sites, located at the tip of the Sinai. Two small reefs are connected by a vertical sloping wall.
Near the Shark Reef, located slightly north, there is Anemone City, an extended, flat Reef zone with numerous anemones and their Red Sea anemone fish and three-spot Prussia fish.
From Shark Reef you can go with the current at a steep wall that drops several 100 meters, along to Jolanda Reef. The wall is completely covered with colorful corals. On the way to Jolanda Reef you reach a plateau with small blocks and coral islands. Arriving at the reef you can see the scattered remains of Jolanda wreck: Container Sanitary way for construction, which are now taken completely in fog from the life of the coral reef.Yolanda-Wrecks
Hotspots
- Ras Mohammed has everything united what the Red Sea has to offer for diving, because of its exposed location, current and flow of abysmal depths. One can find here more than 1,000 different species of fish and 220 species of coral.
- The area around Ras Mohammed has been declared a national park in 1989.