Daedalus Reef

Daedalus Reef is an oval reef, 1300' long by 330' wide, with a lighthouse and pier, and is part of the Marine Park. The lighthouse, on an artificial island, was built in 1863 and rebuilt in 1931. Currents here run north to south.

Daedalus Reef and lighthouse

Paul off the wall fire coral and wall soft coral and wall

There is wall diving along the entire perimeter of the atoll, with a wide variety of pelagics, particularly thresher sharks. The east wall is mostly hard corals while the west wall has more soft corals.

Common thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus

thresher shark

Scalloped torpedo ray, Torpedo panthera

torpedo ray

Polyp butterflyfish, Chaetodon austriacus

polyp butterflyfish

Giant clam, Tridacna gigas

tridacna clam

Pseudantbias sp.

wall and soft coral wall fire coral and anthias soft coral and wall fire coral and wall mountain coral finger coral and anthias

Giant squirrelfish, Sargocentron spiniferum

coral and giant squirrelfish giant squirrelfish

Red Sea bannerfish, Heniochus intermedius

banner fishj

The huge anemone colony called "Anemone City" is the second largest of its kind ever found anywhere. The largest one is at Ras Mohammed, at the southern tip of the Sinai near Shark Reef.

Red Sea anemonefish, Amphiprion bicinctus

Anemone City clownfish and anemone clownfish and anemone

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