HURGHADA ONLINE YOR GUIDE TO HURGHADA

welyonlin · Site Admin Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 34

The Red Sea was created by the movement of plates on the Earth's surface about 30 million years ago.At that time, the Arabian Peninsula started to part from Africa along a thin break line which was filled by the ocean's water. However, "Mother Nature" did not stop there.

Twenty million years ago another geological movement started. The Arabian Peninsula which parted from Africa started to move to the North.That movement struck resistance in Turkey and swung to the East, and another break line was formed.

This one stretching all the way from the Northern part of Israel, through the Jordan valley to the Dead Sea, and finally through the Gulf of Aqaba to Ras Mohamad at the Southern point of the Sinai. The young age of the Gulf of Aqaba is what makes it so deep,100 meters in Dahab and 1800 meters North of the Straits of Tiran.
On the other hand,the old Gulf of Suez is relatively shallow, with 85 meters maximum depth. The Red Sea is still widening at about one half inch per year, the rift is the youngest region of continental breakup on the planet, allowing geologists to learn about processes that occurred in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans hundreds of millions of years earlier.
Diving locations, south of Hurghada

- Al-Gona.
- East of blenda coral reef.
- Abu –Ramada Grana coral reef .
- Abu Hasish Island coral reef.
- West of blenda coral reef.
- South west Abu-Ramada coral reef .
- Megawish Island coral reef .

Diving locations North of Hurghada

- Abu-Monkar coral reef .
- Abu katra coral reef .
- Abu Nahass coral reef.
- Um –Kamar coral reef .
- Al-oroof coral reef
- Al-Fanadeer coral reef .
- Abu-Monkar coral reef .
- Abu-Nekad coral reef .
- Tall coral reef.
- North of Al-Geftoon coral reef.
- Major Seol coral reef.
- Minor Seol cora reef.
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