Sharjah International Marine Sports Club

5-14m Around 20 minutes South just next to Anemone and Coral Gardens is Shark Island. This large out crop delivers two dive site options the bay, or the wall. The wall is made up of large Granite boulders and is a 250m swim, near the shore are hard corals, whilst in the bay it is all hard coral covering a large area of around 200m The site has many shoaling fish including Cornet Fish, Trevally, Mackerel, Fusiliers, Sergeant Majors and Damselfish and every now and again you come across some large Turtles, Honey Comb Morays and Black Tip Sharks. If you come of the wall and follow the rock out you are rewarded with some pristine Table Corals with a span of at least 2m, here you can find an abundance of tropical Indian Ocean marine life.

24-28m This site is next door to Anemone Gardens and probably in the past they were one dive site. A little smaller than Anemone but still 140m in length and 100m in width and again made of two half’s, each being the same size. The marine life is similar to Anemone and the only difference is its depth.

12-19m A twenty minute journey South this dive site is one of the larger ones we have. The site is made up of large rocks with green, purple or white Whip Corals on top and in areas is almost like diving through a field of corn. The site is 200m in length and 160m in width and is made up of two areas the deeper part being the largest. Eksena Crabs, Slipper Lobsters, Shrimp Fish, Sea Horses, Bell Rays and Nudibranchs are all commonly found on this site. Add to that the shoaling fish and the site becomes very busy and definitely interesting, after 700+ dives here you will still find new thing to see.

5-15m This site is 20 minutes form the centre and is close to martini wall, so the marine life is similar to the wall and martini rock. Upon arrival you will see two rocks on the surface and a third just under the surface. Below the surface, the main rock runs for 130m so it is a large site that takes a good 40 minutes to swim round non-stop. The hole is a swim through some 15m in length and 3 m wide by 1.5 m high so it is an overhead environment. In the hole you may have to give way to the rays or turtles. On the deeper section of the dive you may see some large Rays in the sand and if you go even further out you will find Seahorses and Nudibranchs.

Nice shallow dive site for open water and divers composed rock walls full of coral and sandy bottoms. Swim to the deeper part to find large stingrays feeding on the bottom.In the rocks there is a little swim through which is shallow yet exciting to experience. Hence the name Hole in the Wall.

18-21m Opposite Martini Wall lies Inch 2, sunk in 2002 as an artificial reef and donated to us by Inchcape Shipping Services. She was a surface supply vessel and lies in an upright position on a sand sea floor. In 2007 Cyclone Gonu ripped the wheelhouse of her, so we now refer to her as the big mettle canoe. Known for Nudibranchs with at least 20 new species found on her as well as the shoaling Fusiliers and massive Puffer Fish this is an interesting wreck. She is also used for our Wreck Diving courses and you will have the opportunity if you wanted to penetrate her for up to 20m.