SCUBA DIVING | SCUBACQUEANDO.COM - World Scuba Diving | Saudi Arabia: cruising off the coast of Yanbu

May 2007

Perfectly intact coral reefs, sea, forests of immense alcionari multicolored, huge fans of Gorgonia, long whip corals that seem to want to touch the sky, clouds of colorful butterfly fish, colorful and sonnacchiose grouper, senior citizens with moray eels the scars of many battles for search of food ...

... And then benches barracuda you twirl above your head, big tuna in hunting, gray sharks, manta, sea eagles, hammerheads, Carangids ...

... All this is not a dream, all that really exists, a reality belonging to a place still unknown and that is not very popular, a place for true connoisseurs of the sea and its infinite wonders! The name? Saudi Arabia and the exact stretch of sea between the Yanbu Bahar, which in Arabic means "the sea Yanbu, a small town located 300 km north of Jeddah and Umm Lejj and fantastic coral atolls MADREPORE of Seven Reefs.

Really hard to tell all the emotions tested during our last cruise underwater Saudi Arabia on board the speedboat Dream Voyager, we have explored and furrowed with great enthusiasm the beautiful crystal waters of the Red Sea still untouched and waiting to be discovered.

A wide variety of spectacular dive sites still not frequented by mass tourism. There are other yacht cruise in the area, but only a few fishermen's boat that you did ask how to get there and the only references that you have on reefs are the semi affioranti Marker namely metal flags showing the number of reference of the reef.

All dives are characterized by great walls inhabited by a rich variety of fish sedentary barrier as clowns, Napoleon, parrot, surgeon, angel, butterfly, crossbow, grouper, hawk ...

... pelagic fish mainly pitch as Carangids, barracuda, tuna, Bonnie; the reef sharks, gray sharks, hammerheads, manta, sea eagles and races, many dolphins giocherelloni, from large to agile stenelle Bottlenose Dolphin, always accompanied us, is when traveling between the reefs during the berths and sometimes, to our great joy, even in draft. The fish here do not seem neither afraid nor quite annoyed by the presence of divers and bubbles of their even their curiosity means of approaching a very unusual, making nice in front developments in the eyes of those who watch them.

And yet the vast untouched coral gardens where you can admire Acropora so great to be left breathless, black coral bushes and meadows of MADREPORE warm colors; here corals grow quite rapidly, encouraged by generous quantities of light and the continuous replacement of 'Due to water currents. Coral reefs are mainly a juncture often interrupted by narrow lanes submarines which they call "sharm" that give us wonderful play of light and shade.

But the greatest gift that this splendid sea we wanted to give the draft was to Marker 39 "Shi'B Shabarir Reef", during our descent, only 25 meters deep, very few moments in the adrenaline is in the body because as if by magic have come from blue sharks hammer seven wonders of about three meters in length, rather curious that by our presence we have approached a few meters, making a wonderful tribal dance lasted about 15 minutes more.

A marvelous spectacle in which we had the time to admire in all their majestic elegance and silky beauty! A true spectacle of nature unique moments that have filled my heart with joy, moments that have given us deep emotions that none of us will ever forget.

In lifts then the grand finale of fireworks: Carangids groups, banks barracuda, tuna in large hunting and a pair of mighty gray sharks, they too curious about the massive wall of bubbles caused by that group unbelieving still looked toward the blue.

What else to say ... a trip truly unforgettable and electrifying that surely will leave a mark in our hearts, a beautiful memory imprinted in the memory, an adventure to say the least memorable.

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