Gota Abu Ramada - Aquarium

mooring place for dive boats

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What you'll see (19)

Giant MorayGymnothorax javanicusseen 35× near here

Lyretail AnthiasPseudanthias squamipinnisseen 22× near here

Bluespotted Fantail RayTaeniura lymmaseen 21× near here

Red Sea AnemonefishAmphiprion bicinctusseen 21× near here

Masked ButterflyfishChaetodon semilarvatusseen 17× near here

Indian LionfishPterois milesseen 16× near here

Cauliflower CoralPocillopora verrucosaseen 11× near here

Freckled HawkfishParacirrhites forsteriseen 10× near here

Broomtail WrasseCheilinus lunulatusseen 10× near here

Indian Bullethead ParrotfishChlorurus sordidusseen 9× near here

Red Sea Raccoon ButterflyfishChaetodon fasciatusseen 9× near here

Klunzinger's WrasseThalassoma rueppelliiseen 9× near here

Crimson SoldierfishMyripristis murdjanseen 9× near here

Geometric MorayGymnothorax griseusseen 8× near here

White-spotted PufferArothron hispidusseen 8× near here

Masked PufferArothron diadematusseen 8× near here

Indo-Pacific Sergeant MajorAbudefduf vaigiensisseen 7× near here

Small Giant ClamTridacna maximaseen 7× near here

Slingjaw WrasseEpibulus insidiatorseen 7× near here

Planning a trip

8–14 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

7,953km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 53 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Oct, Nov, Dec.

From 9,132 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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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

~13h 42m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightHurghada (HRG)~13h 6mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~6 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Dive boatGota Abu Ramada - Aquarium~30 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 Gota Abu Ramada - Aquarium on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Hurghada

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

Max depth: 16 m
Island: Abu Ramada
Country: Egypt
Marks: 27°8.340'N 33°57.196'E
Position: 27.1390, 33.9533

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.