Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Egypt Named 2nd Best Scuba Diving Destination Worldwide


Tue 23 Nov 2021 | 01:44 PM
Mohamed Helba

Dive Magazine, the world's leading scuba ping magazine, has named Egypt as the second best scuba ping destination in the world. 

The this third consecutive year for Egypt to win the second best destination in the world by this magazine.

"Egypt retains the second place it has held each year since 2019, and while that may not, on the surface, indicate much progress, it has taken the position with a significantly larger percentage of the vote than at any other time in the past. From a total of 108 different destinations - after being collated into countries, that is - Egypt took just under 17 per cent of the overall vote, more than half of Indonesia's 30 per cent," the magazine said.

"Egypt's success is all the more remarkable given that prior to the pandemic, the nation was still recovering from a massive drop in tourism over the preceding four years. The country's success in recent years is partly due to the outstanding loyalty of its visitors who, year after year, return to ping hotspots in Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Dahab and Marsa Alam - plus a wide range of excellent liveaboard itineraries - to pe in the deep blue Red Sea."

"Egypt is the birthplace of many a love affair with scuba ping. It has a mixture of everything from entry-level easy to advanced and challenging, slack currents to high-energy drifts, macro critters to pelagic visitors, all just a short hop from most of mainland Europe. Part of Egypt's attraction is undoubtedly its convenient location - but only a part, the rest belongs to the environment and the well-oiled machine of its scuba ping business." it concluded.