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Getting there
No source states how or whether this site is dived. It is the most isolated position in this stretch of our catalogue, with the nearest catalogued site 8.1 km away, so we cannot even infer a base from its neighbours.
El Wezer
Egypt · reef
The dive
El Wezer is a name in our catalogue and, as far as we can establish, nowhere else. We searched for the site under that spelling and under the obvious variants and found no operator page, dive guide, trip report or park-authority record describing it. Nothing here is therefore filled in: no depth, no visibility, no current, no entry type, no difficulty, no season.
What we can say is where it sits. The position is on the open coast well south of El Quseir, and it is the most isolated site in this batch: the nearest entry in our own 4847-site catalogue is Sharm Taahtany 8.1 km away, with Sheik Malek at 8.8 km and Mangrove Bay 11.6 km north. Nothing adjacent lends it a description, and we have not borrowed one.
The occurrence record is correspondingly empty - ten taxa, one record each except for two records of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, plus a sponge, a zebra angelfish, common lionfish, a yellow-face soapfish, sohal surgeonfish, dogtooth tuna and a Halavi guitarfish. Because the sampling radius had to be widened to 4 km to find anything at all, that list describes a stretch of coast rather than a reef. It tells you nobody has surveyed here, not what is down there.
If an operator offers you this name, the only sensible move is to ask what they mean by it and what the dive actually is.
- The most isolated site in this stretch - the nearest catalogued dive is 8 km away
- No published description of the site exists that we could find
- The occurrence record needed a 4 km radius to return ten records at all
Access & rules
Conditions
Visibilitynot sourced
Currentnot sourced
Surgenot sourced
WaterSalt water
Depth rangenot sourced
Environmentreef
Coralrecovering
Crowdsnot sourced
On current: Nothing is published about this site. We found no operator page, dive guide or trip report describing El Wezer under that spelling or the obvious variants, so no depth, visibility or current figure has been recorded. Neighbouring sites are 8 km or more away and their figures are not this site's.
Questions & answers
What is known about El Wezer?
Very little. We could find no operator page, dive guide, trip report or park-authority record describing a dive site under this name or its obvious spelling variants, so depth, visibility, current, entry and difficulty are all left empty here rather than guessed.
Where is it?
On the open coast well south of El Quseir. It is the most isolated entry in this batch: the nearest site in our own catalogue is Sharm Taahtany 8.1 km away, with Sheik Malek at 8.8 km and Mangrove Bay 11.6 km to the north.
How deep is it?
Unknown, and we have not guessed. No source publishes a depth for this position, and the nearest documented sites are more than 8 km away, which is far too far to borrow a profile from.
What will I see?
There is almost no data. The occurrence record holds ten taxa, one record each apart from two of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, plus a sponge, zebra angelfish, common lionfish, yellow-face soapfish, sohal surgeonfish, dogtooth tuna and a Halavi guitarfish. The search radius had to be widened to 4 km to find even that, so the list describes a stretch of coast, not a reef.
Is the coral healthy here?
We have no site-level observation. Regionally, HEPCA's Bleach Watch reporting on the 2024 Egyptian Red Sea bleaching event found severity increasing from north to south along this coast, with preliminary 2025 recovery of 75 to 88 per cent across the surveyed reefs, which is why we record the reef state as recovering rather than healthy.
Should I book a dive here?
Only after asking the operator exactly what they mean by the name and what the dive is. A name with no published description behind it may be a good local reef, or it may be a label an operator applies to a stretch of coast - and you cannot tell from here.
Life recorded at El Wezer
10 species within 4.04 km · OBISTursiops aduncusrare · 2 records
Trimma barrallirare · 1 records
Acanthurus sohalrare · 1 records
Diploprion drachirare · 1 records
Eviota marerubrumrare · 1 records
Stylissa carterirare · 1 records
All 10 species recorded in this area
| Species | How often | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Tursiops aduncus | rare | 2 |
| Trimma barralli | rare | 1 |
| Acanthurus sohal | rare | 1 |
| Diploprion drachi | rare | 1 |
| Eviota marerubrum | rare | 1 |
| Stylissa carteri | rare | 1 |
| Glaucostegus halavi | rare | 1 |
| Gymnosarda unicolor | rare | 1 |
| Pterois miles | rare | 1 |
| Genicanthus caudovittatus | rare | 1 |
Nearby sites in El Quseir
Explore all sitesSharm Taahtany8.1 km
El QuseirThe bay next door to Mangrove Bay, dived along its northern outer side over a wide coral garden broken by blocks, then finished inside the bay.
Sheik Malek8.8 km
Port GhalibA shallow sandy slope with seagrass beds and a line of pinnacles on the south side, worked slowly for turtles, rays and the occasional dugong.
Soug Bahar10.4 km
Port GhalibMangrove Bay11.6 km
El QuseirA jetty, a sheltered bay and a reef that works in weather that closes the rest of the coast.
Maheleg15.0 km
El QuseirA quiet lagoon that opens into coral slopes - the site that still works when the coast is windy.
Ras Torombi17.1 km
Port GhalibThe headland at the northern end of the Port Ghalib boat range, named for a reef shaped like a head going into the water.
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