Saudi Arabia

Untouched virgin sites and excellent diving, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is slowly opening it's doors to divers with newly discovered dive sites and an abundance of large pelagic activity.  It has been said that Saudi Arabia is one of diving's last frontiers, and it is a fact that very few westerners have ever been able to dive here.

The appeal of diving almost untouched, barely explored reefs is undeniable. With an incredible variety of marine life and some of the most flourishing coral reefs to be found anywhere in the world - it is no wonder that so many famous explorers have dived here.

During his first exploration of the Red Sea the legendary underwater explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau classified four main diving zones - the north, middle and southern Red Sea regions and the Gulf of Aqaba. He observed that the northern and southern Red Sea had generally poor diving conditions with hazy water, sparse fish and dwarfed corals while in the center - along the shorelines of Saudi Arabia and Sudan he wrote "life abounds in bank after bank of exuberant coral structures, second only to those of the Great Barrier Reef in extent and exceeding it perhaps in splendour. Here there is deep clarity, blazing colour, and active fauna living under the most arid and least populated of coasts.