The Admiralty Chart shows Sha’ab Anbar as a very long, slightly bent line of coral just below the surface. In reality, it is a very long slightly bent collection of broken reefs with a sheltered lagoon in the north. It has a north point, west and east walls, a south wall and a south eastern plateau. Some of it has been dived before, but the majority of this five mile long obstruction to shipping is virgin territory. The wind blew out diving on the north side unfortunately, but with so much else to discover it wasn’t a problem.

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The first site was a new one for everyone, including the Captain. Sha’ab Ata is at the far southern end of the uncharted area and is crowned with a small beacon to warn any captain stupid enough to wander out of the shipping lanes, which lead to Port Sudan, that the area is fraught with danger. Ata’s coral platform is sausage shaped on the surface and the gradation of blues radiating outwards looked promising.

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The first site was a new one for everyone, including the Captain. Sha’ab Ata is at the far southern end of the uncharted area and is crowned with a small beacon to warn any captain stupid enough to wander out of the shipping lanes, which lead to Port Sudan, that the area is fraught with danger. Ata’s coral platform is sausage shaped on the surface and the gradation of blues radiating outwards looked promising.

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