Paradise Reef (2)
24.1884°N 35.4429°E · reef
DUPLICATE/PROXIMITY FLAG: This entry (lat 24.1884, lon 35.4429) is located approximately 73 km from the primary Paradise Reef node (lat 23.6285, lon 35.8221) near Fury Shoal. At 73 km separation the two entries almost certainly represent entirely different dive sites — but “Paradise Reef (2)” may be a locally named reef in the broader Marsa Alam area or could be an erroneous duplicate labelling. No independent source has been found confirming “Paradise Reef (2)” as a named dive site at these specific coordinates.
Overview
The coordinates (lat 24.19, lon 35.44) place this site in the inshore reef zone between El Quseir and Marsa Alam on Egypt’s southern Red Sea coast. This stretch of coastline contains numerous fringing and patch reefs with typical Red Sea shallow reef communities. No site-specific dive source has been located for this exact coordinate pair under the name “Paradise Reef (2).”
The documented Paradise Reef (also called Orabi) at Fury Shoal is a coral garden 3–17 m deep with ergs, overhangs, and caverns; blue-spotted rays, sea turtles, and porcupinefish are regularly sighted there. See the primary Paradise Reef entry for that site’s details.
Site Information
- Location: Southern Red Sea coast, Egypt (precise site unconfirmed)
- Entry Type: Boat dive
- Site Type: Reef
Sea-surface temperature and wave height from Open-Meteo Marine (ERA5 reanalysis, monthly averages).
30 verified species observations (24 species) logged within ~11 km of this site between 1904 and 2011, from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
- Syngnathidae · Pipefishes
- Saurida gracilis · Slender Lizardfish
- Fowleria isostigma
- Doryrhamphus excisus · Bluestripe Pipefish
- Fowleria variegata
- Negaprion
- Tursiops aduncus · Indian ocean bottlenose dolphin
- Sousa chinensis · Chinese white dolphin
- Helcogramma obtusirostris
- Pseudorca crassidens · False killer whale
- Enneapterygius obscurus
- Nerita sanguinolenta
Scientific survey records skew toward sampled taxa (molluscs, corals) and do not reflect what you are guaranteed to see on a dive.
Source: OBIS (obis.org), aggregated Darwin Core occurrence records.
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