The Red Sea laps the shores of an ecosystem seemingly free from life and its surrounded by one of the world’s largest and vast area of sand. That’s the reason for which many people find it difficult to imagine that some of the earth’s richest coral reefs rise from the floor of the sea’s northern reaches.
But for Eugenie Clark a marine scientist its not difficult she says that for diving she will choose only one place in the world and that is Ras Muhammad. She researched life in the Red Sea for more that four decades and she believes that this area represents best the marine splendors of the Red Sea. Dr. Clark advised the Egyptian government in 1980 to make the site a national park; an idea became reality in 1983.
In Ras Muhammad in deep water there is a coral plateau that is sometime called Garden of Eden, a place of silence. The rays of sunlight lights up the reef’s yellow, orange, and light green soft corals, hard corals such as stars, fingers and clubs are also found here, ensuring that the community is rock solid.
Sea anemones on the reef seem to glow a brilliant shade of orange, a color that comes from algae in their tentacles So many photographers tried to capture this glove on the film but till now no one succeeded. There is another very rare sight there and that’s bright-red lionfish swimming in open water during the day. These fish usually reside near the sea bottom, equipped with the venomous dorsal spines and waiting to trap smaller fish in nooks and crannies.
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