Elba Reef East (North-Plateau)

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What you'll see (11)

Spotted LinckiaLinckia multiforaseen 2× near here

Blue DragonPteraeolidia semperiseen 2× near here

Paletail UnicornfishNaso brevirostrisseen 1× near here

Emperor AngelfishPomacanthus imperatorseen 1× near here

Collector UrchinTripneustes gratillaseen 1× near here

Bubble-tip AnemoneEntacmaea quadricolorseen 1× near here

Egyptian Sea StarGomophia egyptiacaseen 1× near here

Schultz's PipefishCorythoichthys schultziseen 1× near here

Pygmy TobyCanthigaster pygmaeaseen 1× near here

Magnificent Sea AnemoneRadianthus magnificaseen 1× near here

Fourline WrasseLabroides quadrilineatusseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–13 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

7,567km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 11 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

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Season

Prime

October is as good as it gets here.

No monsoon at all. The season is a temperature one, at both ends.

The year here

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Best here: March, April, May, September, October, November.

The Red Sea — no monsoon here; the season is rain and water temperature. Written by hand from how the season actually runs, calibrated against what the boats do, since a season that disagrees with the operators is wrong however good the meteorology behind it. It describes most years, not this one: the forecast above is what knows about next week.

Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~22h 42m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightMarsa Alam (RMF)~13hFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~7h 12mRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatElba Reef East (North-Plateau)~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Elba Reef East (North-Plateau) on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Marsa Alam

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Country: Sudan
Marks: 22°1.082'N 37°0.704'E
Position: 22.0180, 37.0117

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.