SHARM
27.8564°N 34.2809°E · reef
Sharm is a generic reef site entry in the southern Sinai area near Ras Mohammed (lat 27.86, lon 34.28). “Sharm” is the Arabic word for a sheltered bay or inlet, and this name may refer to a local reef associated with a particular bay along the south Sinai coast.
Overview
The coordinates place this site on the southwestern Sinai coast in the Ras Mohammed National Park buffer zone — an area of high marine biodiversity where nutrient-rich currents from both the Gulf of Aqaba and Gulf of Suez converge. The southern Sinai coast in this zone hosts numerous named and unnamed reef sections with typical depths of 10–25 m.
No specific source has been found documenting “Sharm” as a distinct named dive site (separate from the city of Sharm el Sheikh) in widely available English-language dive guides. The site may be a local navigation marker name recorded in OSM data.
Site Information
- Location: Southern Sinai / Ras Mohammed area, Red Sea
- Entry Type: Boat dive
- Site Type: Reef
- Maximum Depth: 25 meters
No site-specific dive source was found for this entry at these coordinates. Description based on coordinate location analysis. Last updated 2026-05-17.
Sea-surface temperature and wave height from Open-Meteo Marine (ERA5 reanalysis, monthly averages).
607 verified species observations (341 species) logged within ~11 km of this site between 1957 and 2018, from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
- Rhincodon typus · Whale Shark
- Grampus griseus · Risso's dolphin
- Stenella attenuata · Pantropical spotted dolphin
- Pempheris tominagai
- Vinciguerria mabahiss
- Sargocentron caudimaculatum · Tailspot Squirrelfish
- Epinephelus fasciatus · Black-tipped Cod
- Tursiops · Bottlenose dolphins
- Priolepis cincta
- Tursiops truncatus · Common bottlenose dolphin
- Stenella · Spinner dolphins
- Ecsenius frontalis
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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