Liegt an der Südspitze von Sinai. Es ist ein National Park. Von Osten kommt der Golf von Aqaba und von  Westen der Golf von Suez. In Ras Mohamed gibt es 150 verschiedene Arten von Korallen und Minimum 100 verschiedene Fischarten die im Roten Meer vorkommen. Nahe an Ras Mohamed liegen die beiden Riffe  Jolander Riff mit seinem Wrack JOLANDER, gestrandet in der Nacht von 1. Auf den 2. April 1980 , durch einen Navigationsfehler der Crew inklusive Kapitän die total betrunken waren und in voller Fahrt das Riff rammten. Abgesackt in 1981 auf einer Tiefe von ca. 50 m und in März 1987 nach einem Sturm auf ca. 200m und Shark Riff. Große Napoleons, Muränen, graue und Weisspitzenhaie, große Schulen von Schnapper, Fledermausfische, Barakudas und vieles mehr kann man dort sehen.

The Jolanda

This container ship, carrying assorted bathroom supplies hit the reef at the point of Ras Mohammed in 1980. It rested uneasily on the top of the reef for nearly a year until, in another storm, the wreck settled down the reef, and it now lies at a depth of over two hundred meters. The only signs left on top of the reef to mark its passing are a few containers, full of baths, toilets, immersion heaters, and steel beams.

History of the Wreck of Jolanda

The wreck of Jolanda was from Cape Town. It was on route from Aquaba. It was carrying toilets, bowls, sinks, cement, gas pipes, plastic toilet roll wrappers, BMW spares and a BMW-Car. She dropped an anchor, slid back and rolled over to an angle of  90 .
Steel hawsers surrounded the smallest of three coral islands to stop her from sliding into the blue, but, in March 1987 during a violent storm she finally tipped further over the edge and her weight snapped the hawsers. She pulled off the anchor chain and nearly everything slipped away, gone for ever from the sport diving reaches.  But not quite everything.

What is left of the wreck today

When the wreck slipped over the edge of the reef it left some of its cargo on the ledge. Part of the reef is littered with wash basins and bidets. There are three large containers left. The shallowest one is full of what looks like wall paper. The others contain toilets and wash basins. There are baths too. One anchor lying in 60m depth.
The cargo is spread between Jolanda reef and the smaller reef and starts at about 5m and goes down to 23m where there is a large pile of toilets. After this ther is the odd one scattered on down the wall into the depths.

Ras Muhammad (Shark Reef)

Ras Muhammad is located on the tip of the Ras Muhammad Peninsula and is within the boundaries of the Ras Muhammad National Park. More has been written about this dive site than any other single site in the world. All of it is good and for good reason. There is no other dive site that has so many different wonderful diving conditions in such a small area. There is access to the area from the beach for snorkelers and shore divers. There are also mooring sites for boat divers. Ras Muhammad is a wall that begins at the point of the peninsula and descends down from the surface to over 300 feet. Along this wall are sharks, jacks and other open ocean animals that pass by here on the way in and out of the Gulf of Aqaba.

Heading south along the wall, you enter into a bay where the wall begins to slope to sandy shelves below. At about 60 feet, the bay begins to turn back toward the sea and this is where you will find Anemone City. Anemone City is a shelf on the reef that is covered with anemones that are filled with the clown anemone fish that live among them. There are so many clown anemone fish that it is hard to stop taking pictures.

The reef meets two submerged islands as it continues out toward the sea. These islands are called Shark Reef and between the two islands and the shore are the mooring sites for dive boats. Normally, the dive begins up-current around the Ras Muhammad wall and follows the currents past Anemone City to the northern tip of Shark Reef. The path you take around Shark Reef depends upon the current; either clockwise or counterclockwise. There is a very large drop-off on the outside of the reefs, that is covered with soft corals, large fan corals and many resident fish. Off the wall, there are many open ocean fish, such as rays, sharks and large groups of schooling jacks.

As you finish the path around Shark Reef, you descend down to a sandy channel between Shark Reef and the shore. There are the remnants of a freighter that sank in the late 1960's that contained pipe and bathroom fixtures. The wreck itself slid down the slope into depths unknown in 1986, however there are still some fixtures and other items still left behind. Some reef animals made some of these fixtures their home. It is quite funny to see a moray eel come out of a toilet fixture. There are also many large trumpet fish along this sandy area.

The typical depth range of Ras Muhammad is 30 to 300 feet and is best accessed by drift dive, boat dive or local guide. The expertise required is a snorkeler, novice with an instructor, advanced, dive master or instructor.