Sha ab Adel
27.1392°N 33.9453°E · reef
Sha’ab Adel is a reef dive site in the northern Egyptian Red Sea at approximately 27.14°N, 33.95°E, in the El Quseir / Gubal vicinity.
Overview
The coordinates of Sha’ab Adel (27.14°N, 33.95°E) place this reef in the offshore zone near El Quseir, north of Marsa Alam. This section of the central Egyptian Red Sea coast features outer reefs and bank structures that drop into deeper water. No site-specific sources with detailed descriptions of Sha’ab Adel were located under this name in published dive guides, operator sites, or diving databases.
The site is recorded as a coral reef in OSM data. Given its coordinates in the El Quseir offshore zone, it likely features the typical profile of mid-coast Egyptian reefs: coral slopes from 5–10 m down to a sandy floor at 25–30 m, with the reef edge providing habitat for parrotfish, grouper, and snapper typical of this section of the Red Sea.
No site-specific sources were found for this entry. Coordinate position and site type are derived from OSM data.
Sea-surface temperature and wave height from Open-Meteo Marine (ERA5 reanalysis, monthly averages).
624 verified species observations (415 species) logged within ~11 km of this site between 1833 and 2014, from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
- Sousa chinensis · Chinese white dolphin
- Megaptera novaeangliae · Humpback whale
- Rhincodon typus · Whale Shark
- Plectorhinchus schotaf
- Grampus griseus · Risso's dolphin
- Gymnothorax flavimarginatus
- Amblygobius albimaculatus
- Stenella longirostris · Spinner dolphin
- Tursiops truncatus · Common bottlenose dolphin
- Naso lituratus
- Pseudorca crassidens · False killer whale
- Plectropomus maculatus
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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