Eel Canyon - Diving Sites in Aqaba -

Eel Canyon is named after the garden eels that protrude from the sand in the bottom of the canyons. (There are also some nice morays here). You can use the table coral and oil drum as navigation points so you know where you are in the area.

There are many lion fish under coral ledges and some nice black coral bushes. The site consists of parallel valleys lined with hard and soft corals where you can go through some cave-like structures which look like tents from a distance.

The reef is flat sloping downwards to +40m. There is a nice swim through at the bottom of one spur of coral - be careful with you fins though!

We are currently having talks with the port authority to try and have the wreck on the new hotel beach towed off and scuttled here at the bottom of the canyon!

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