Seven Sisters

Seven sisters and diving in Saudi Arabia with a liveaboard is experiencing the Red Sea at its best. A liveaboard and diving at Five Corals in the Red Sea in the waters off Yanbu is a bonus to your diving trip. You can go to these fantastic reefs all year round and experience magically beautiful coral formations, exciting and dramatic wall diving. Here you will normally see lots of large fish and sharks. You usually start from the port of Yanbu where it is about a four-hour drive from your hotel in Jeddah. Then it heads west for a couple of hours to dive along the plateaus that stretch out into the big blue. Here you have good opportunities to experience schools of large pelagic animals.

From Sha'ab Suflani you travel further south to the area called Five Corals. These are five coral atolls facing the city of Rabigh. These fabulously beautiful and magnificent reefs are located a short distance from each other. They welcome you to what feels like a completely virgin area. Maria Reef is without exaggeration one of the most fascinating dives that will leave you who dives for the first time in its depths speechless. From the first meters you will notice the impressive presence of different species of fish. Here you will see tuna to schools of trevally and barracuda. ​​Schools and fish swimming undisturbed along the entire plateau surrounded by clouds of fusiliers, surgeonfish and anthias.

The feeling of actually diving in a real aquarium where soft corals almost completely cover the entire reef. Joey Reef, Noura, Mary Ann and Mary Jane are the other 4 “sisters” that differ from the first one because they have completely different morphological characteristics. Huge coral cover tapestries with walls covered with gorgonians, sponges and various corals. The walls here drop vertically into the depths. All while schools of hammerhead sharks, eagle rays and mantas sometimes pass by out in the big blue. If you are lucky, you can experience all these pelagic giants even at night along the southern plateau of Joey Reef.

Common with sharks

With a little luck, other shark species such as the bull shark, grey reef shark, thresher shark, tiger shark, bull shark and silky shark can also be seen out in the blue. Large Napoleon fish, turtles, large parrot fish, lots of anemones and clown fish and much more can be experienced in this magical coral garden. Sometimes you are lucky and can both snorkel and dive with dolphins. The currents are often strong and can go in all directions. The reward is an incredibly rich marine life where sharks are basically guaranteed to be seen when conditions are right.

Silvertips, silky sharks, hammerhead sharks, grey, black- and white-tip reef sharks are frequently seen here. The great asset is perhaps the enormous species richness and colorful splendor of the vertical walls. Sponges, gorgonians, hard and soft corals and whip corals that extend from the walls are everywhere. Here you experience entire healthy coral reefs that are teeming with other marine life. Further south lies the Mansi reef and an atoll called Shaáb Suflani. Here you also experience lots of sharks, rays and large schools of fish that connect the reef with the vast blue shimmering sea. The reefs here drop down to several hundred meters deep. It is therefore important that you keep an eye on your balance as it is easy to let yourself be hypnotized by the fantastic reef here at Seven Sisters and Five Corals.