Red Sea

Going for the first time in May to sharm

3mm or 5mm wetsuit ?

Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
appreciated


Colin

5mm, you'll be cold after a 3rd dive otherwise.

Site to go for? Depends what you're interested in?

The 4 reefs of Tiran (Woodhouse, Gordon, Jackson & Thomas) are always good.

Yolanda & Shark reef are worth spending some time on (Ras Mo')

Jackfish Alley has some nice tunnels to swim through.

The Dunraven is a nice relaxing wreck dive, which you can finish with a
drift along the wall at the bow end and then back to the dive boat.

The Thislegorm would be excellent, but if it's your first visit to Sharm
then you'll be pissed off with the amount of divers on the wreck and the 4
hours trip to get there. Much better saved for a liveaboard when you can
drop onto the wreck first thing in the morning before anyone else turns up.
Plus they'll charge you about $100 extra if you wanna do the This' outside
of the normal schedule of dives.

Most of the shallow reef stuff should satisfy you if your going to look at
the fish & corals. The 'Gardens' will be good at the start of the week.

Basically your gonna have to go with the majority of the boat, but wherever
you go, you won't be disappointed.

HTH

Scubatricky



"colinblake" <colinblake@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Going for the first time in May to sharm
>
> 3mm or 5mm wetsuit ?
>
> Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
> appreciated
>
>
> Colin
>
>

"colinblake" <colinblake@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Going for the first time in May to sharm
>
> 3mm or 5mm wetsuit ?

I've been twiced and dived with 3mm each time (June and October). Depends how cold you get I guess,
but I didn't want anything more.

> Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
> appreciated

Thistlegorm. I was on a liveaboard the first time and when we turned up there were 13 boats there.
On the night dive it looked like something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind with all the
torches flashing everywhere. Having said that it *is* possible to get down there alone; the next
day our dive master got us up at 5am and the wreck was empty when we got down there - well worth
it.

--
kAnO
Eagles may soar proud and free, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.

I'm off in a fortnight and am only taking a 3mm (though I have got a thick
blubber layer - have you ever seen a whale shivering?)

I went twice last year - March and July and was fine both times with a 3mm -
July I could have done in shorts & T-shirt

Try to persuade your guide to take you to the Million Hope - wonderful wreck
dive, but not done often as it needs flat calm weather


"colinblake" <colinblake@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Going for the first time in May to sharm
>
> 3mm or 5mm wetsuit ?
>
> Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
> appreciated
>
>
> Colin
>
>

"colinblake" <colinblake@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Going for the first time in May to sharm
>
> 3mm or 5mm wetsuit ?
>
> Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
> appreciated
>
>
> Colin
>
>
I've only got a 3mm full length and I anm never cold unless its below
22metre, then I do seem to find it a little chilly after a while.

Where ever you dive it will be beautiful - even in the harbour you can see
the marine life.
Seahorse dive club, based in Swindon, has had several trips to Sharm' - see
our website's travel page:-
http://www.againstthewind.org.uk/TRAV/travelns.htm

enjoy your diving.
Malcolm

In article <j0CNb.1360$cS6.359@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net>,
colinblake@ntlworld.com (colinblake) wrote:

> Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
> appreciated

I use a 3mm Bib and Lycra top which is adequate.
Diving for the first time there is plenty to go at, There are some great
drift dives on the Tiran reefs of Gordon, Jackson etc
Ras Mohamed has the one of the best dives anywhere, Yolande Reef.

If you want to dive some pristine reef where the boats cant go then check
out www.diveafrica.com they can fix you up with a trip for the day,

Enjoy....

DaveM in UK

>5mm, you'll be cold after a 3rd dive otherwise.

100% agree. Have been several times + at different times of the year and May is
def 5mm weather. You'll get acclimatised quick + will be cold by the end of
the week otherwise.

>The 4 reefs of Tiran (Woodhouse, Gordon, Jackson & Thomas) are always good.

Beware the Russian try-divers! Yes, they actually take people out to Tiran who
have never done any diving before. It's quite hilarious to watch a massive
Russian instructor pull one try-diver out of the water, remove all the
equipment in 20 seconds, put it straight onto another try-diver and push them
in the water...until you realise what its doing to the coral on one of the best
northern sites, that is...

>Yolanda & Shark reef are worth spending some time on (Ras Mo')

Never seen anything on them + the 'adrenaline-pumping' blue-water experience
has never quite done anything for me on this particular dive. Most people
still bill it as one of the best dives in northern Egypt though, so maybe I've
just been unlucky every time...or maybe they want the park-fees...

>Jackfish Alley has some nice tunnels to swim through.

Only done it once but it was brilliant! If you get the chance, do it!

You'll pretty much be going on a set route though. It normally goes: day 1:
gardens, day 2: ras-bob+nasrani, day 3: tiran, day 4: ras mohammed, day 5:
thistlegorm...i think that's pretty much right, but don't have my logbook to
hand. The good thing with this route is that the dive sites get progressively
better as the week goes on, so where you'll begin by thinking the gardens are
teeming with coral, by Tiran you'll be amazed!

Also note the extras i.e. night dive costs extra as does an optional third dive
from day 2 onwards. Nitrox also obviously costs extra.

Oh and if you get the chance to do 'Lagoon' for an optional dive at Tiran I'd
jump at it, cos for all the times I've been I've never had the option to dive
it and my Egypt book has good things to say on its behalf...

HTH + have fun!

Rob F.

we went xmas 02/3 used a 3mm suit not cold at all 30m+ for 50min
the thistlegorm we must have been very lucky this summer as we were the
third boat there,
after 10 mins the other two boats left and we had it all to ourselves 3 of
us for 55 min
african divers have looked after us very well
"colinblake" <colinblake@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Going for the first time in May to sharm
>
> 3mm or 5mm wetsuit ?
>
> Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
> appreciated
>
>
> Colin
>
>

morgand@cix.co.uk (Dave Morgan) wrote in message news:<memo.20040116171341.36723B@morgand.compulink .co.uk>...
> In article <j0CNb.1360$cS6.359@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net>,
> colinblake@ntlworld.com (colinblake) wrote:
>
> > Thanks and any advice on good dive sites to visit from sharm would be
> > appreciated
>
> I use a 3mm Bib and Lycra top which is adequate.
> Diving for the first time there is plenty to go at, There are some great
> drift dives on the Tiran reefs of Gordon, Jackson etc
> Ras Mohamed has the one of the best dives anywhere, Yolande Reef.
>
> If you want to dive some pristine reef where the boats cant go then check
> out www.diveafrica.com they can fix you up with a trip for the day,
>
> Enjoy....
>
> DaveM in UK

well fuck me

In article <2a8fe117.0401161558.2a4567c@posting.google.com> ,
bobbabb444@hotmail.com (Robert Babbit) wrote:

> well fuck me

Now thats an interesting comment, I know we should'nt judge wise men by
the way they speak or spell......but.....we are only human.

DaveM