Giftun National Park and Giftun Island scuba dive sites in Hurghada

A well preserved and protected area in the Red Sea with beautiful drop-offs, canyons, walls and schools of fishes. Ideal for drift diving and technical dives.

The Park’s islands are surrounded by strong currents that are providing rich nutrition to the marine life underneath. These good conditions make the marine life thrive in the area making this one of the richest and best diving areas in the Red Sea. The reef has two pinnacles at 12 meters.
Divers can expect to spot schools of barracudas, Crocodile Fish, Stone and Scorpion Fish, blue spotted stingrays, moray eels, Goat Fish, and Fusiliers.
Small Giftun is popular among technical divers besides sea fans, black corals, barracudas, white-tip and whale sharks, divers can wonder around steep walls, drop-offs, caves, and canyons.
However, shallower reefs are also good for snorkeling and can be accessed from the shore.
To dive around the area all visitors must pay a fee (paid to the diving centers). It’s a small fee that the government collects to spend on conservation initiatives.
This is a year-round diving area but do note breezes often turn though into strong winds which may limit access to certain dive sites.

The conditions in 26 Giftun National Park and Giftun Island divesites you can expect to be - average depth from 13m to 62m, water temperature 22℃ to 29℃, air temperature 24℃ to 35℃, expected current 1 to 4 knots.

These Giftun National Park and Giftun Island dive sites are reef, drift, cave, wall, nightdive, wreck.

In these divesites you will be able to encounter and see Fishes, Lionfish, Ray, Angelfish, Animals, Corals, Eagle Ray, Wrasse, Turtle, Barracuda, Grouper, Octopus, Stingray, Butterflyfish, Pufferfish, Molluscs, Nudibranch, Dolphin, Clownfish (Anemonefish), Jackfish, Triggerfish, Shark, Cuttlefish.