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Ras Bob
This site can be dived as either a mooring dive, or a drift dive, heading over towards Ras Nasrani.
This whole area used to be entirely unpopulated with one single house and garden situated in perfect line with the permanent mooring line found at 20M for which the guide would have to jump in and tie on. Now there are numerous apartments and buildings there, making it all a little more challenging.
Ras Bob is named after Bob Johnson who was one of the adventurers and cartographers that first discovered and mapped the dive sites in and around Sharm el Sheikh. Its claim to fame is that it was used for a well played advert for the Cheltenham and Gloucester building society in the UK. The one where a little boy skin dives down to find a pearl in an oyster on the sand. You can recognise the familiar porites mounds from the advert as you dive in the shallows here.
The first part of the dive is not dissimilar to a normal local dive, with a small 5m drop along the fringing reef, however the sandy plateau is very minimal here, and in places slopes down quite steeply. There are several pinnacles nestled close to the reef creating a couple of really cool alcoves and little swim throughs, which are great to mosey around.
If I am to do this as a drift dive, I make sure that I drop in close to the jetty adjoining Ras Nasrani, so that I can take in both dive sites on one dive.
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