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Ras Katy
Ras Katy is the first dive site you reach if you come out of our most Southern Jetty, Travco. It is also the most Southerly local dive sites. Officially, all sites South of this are within the Ras Mohammed National Park. I say officially, because across the bay, you will also find a dive site known as "Ras Peter", however chances are, the only time you will actually see any boats moored there, will be the rare days when there is a strong wind coming from the South East rendering much of Sharm pretty miserable as far as surface conditions go. As a dive site, Ras Peter is fairly dull, however on a windy day like that, it is a joy to find small shelter, as suddenly usually flat dive sites, become swelly, rough and far from ideal for your Open Water students.
But this section is about Ras Katy, so I shall get back to the subject in hand.
The beauty of Ras Katy is that it is a large site, so you can actually make about three different dives here.
This is typical of most of our local sites, where you will find fringing reef coming out from the beach and cliffs. This reef is only half a metre deep, so it's not advisable to swim over the top of it. The initial depth along the edge of this reef is a mere 3-5M, and a sandy plateau gently slopes out from that to a second drop off which happens at about 12-14M. Along this drop off is a series of coral pinnacles where you will find much of the wonderful life here. I have seen octopi, stone fish, Red Sea Walkmen, blue spotted rays, even eagle rays, and simply loads of fish crowding around these pinnacles.
My favourite dive here is to moor up near the main big pinnacles towards the headland. These reach right up, close to the surface and are normally heaving with life. We get crowds of fusiliers and red toothed trigger fish here, too which always add a little life to the dive. Returning to the boat in the shallows along the fringing reef is equally fascinating too, where you can take your time and look for the small stuff. You do need to keep an ear open for the glass bottomed boats though as they do like to show their guests the divers!! Mad? I know it is and we are trying to establish some kind of ground rules as we speak.
Another great dive to do is a semi drift, from here, around the corner towards the dive site Temple. You just get so much pretty pretty coral dotted along the sand, and always the chance of a cool encounter as you turn the corner.
This is a good location for a night dive too.
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