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Aqaba's Diving Spots

Cable Reef & Canyon

The site makes a good night dive, when you can see large Spanish Dancers, lobsters, Feathered Starfish, moray eels and Lionfish. Here you can see the telecommunication cable that connects Egypt and Jordan. Also you can follow this reef to the Cedar Pride Wreck when diving from the shore. In 1996 electrical cables were laid to Egypt. There are four cables running out over the seabed, the two cables to the North run through a deep canyon. Here the reef has been shored up on either side to prevent it collapsing on the cables. Large steel netting covers the reef to the North and South, coral is now growing through this. Large metal tubes straddle the canyon preventing collapse. These are now a habitat for soft corals and sponges, you might also spot an octopus or Spotted Eagle Ray here.

This scuba dive is located between Rainbow Reef and Black Rock, it consists of some interesting features including some cables which lie over the sea bed and through a large canyon as well as a few metal tubes. There are now even corals growing along the nets which cover the reef in parts.

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