Blue Coral Aqaba, Jordan

Blue Coral: Dive Site Overview

We will enter from the shore and descend here to a depth of around 12m. Blue Coral – names for, you guessed it, this site’s remarkable displays of blue Acropora coral – is entirely open-ended in terms of direction and depth. The reef begins at 10m and extends all the way out to 25m with 3 massive coral shelves and a number of pinnacles poking out of a sandy bottom and seagrass bed. So where do you want to go?

Stick to the shallows, and you’ll see turtles, morays, reef fish, rays, and invertebrates galore – especially nudibranchs, for which Blue Coral is particularly well-known. If we head down a little deeper, we’ll start to see schools of larger fish feeding over the reef, larger sponges and even more impressive soft and hard corals.

With sandy gullies separating the 3 finger reefs, most divers choose to dive one at a time, saving the others for future dives – there’s simply too much life at Blue Coral to cover it all at once.

But sometimes ...

... of course not always!

This site is particularly great at night, since its varying depths and topography offer a variety of experiences, but its overall simple, sloping layout are easy to navigate.

Blue Coral Dive Site: Location & Dive Map