Rated excellent for snorkelling, coral wise, diving good, considered as a drift dive.
This is one of the house reefs of Club Murjan, the day base for Seastar Watersports PADI 5* IDC facility. First Dive entry point is 200 m north of Club Murjan , through the lagoon and out along the fringing reef, north to an area of white sand with small coral outcrops scattered around inhabited by many different species of Morays. Continue further north to a pinnacle covered in red soft corals, then drift south towards Cazar Reef. This open area many Lunar Tail Grouper and large slipper lobsters and above at around 5m are often seen Great Barracuda. Continue down to the entrance of Cazar Reef for safety stop and exit. Once out of the water is a short walk (50m) into the Club. Loads of hard and soft corals and table corals. Peppered eels, moray eels (There is a huge Moray eel living there for many years and its massively huge!, puffer fish, lion fish, groupers, barracuda, scorpion and stone fish, plus… June/July, whale sharks are heard and often seen.

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This is the primary house reef and training area.
This house reef is located directly infront of Club Murjan. Rated excellent snorkelling and diving. Enter at south side of gully edging down to 18m, lots of Cornet fish and Fusiliers, a cabbage coral marks the corner of the reef. Swim northwards over some large black corals to a pinnacle at 17m covered in soft coral. Lots of Lunar Tail Grouper and nice Table Coral and cleaning stations. Head up to 10/12m and move southwards, often Barracuda are seen in the shallower water, plus Grey Morays and Lion Fish and cleaner Wrasse Stations. On sandy areas Moses Sole, Dragonets and Flounders. Turn left into the gully for safety stop at 5m where you will often see Puffer Fish and Whitebait. Night dives here are always rewarded with Spanish Dancers, squid, octopus and of course Lion Fish on the prowl, Corals varied hard and soft coral growths of fringing reef and coral pinnacles. You can find Morays, puffers, squid and octopus, lion fish, groupers, frog fish, seahorses and very well camouflaged scorpion or stone fish. Its an excellent environment for training all courses.

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Rated excellent for diving off Murjan Club.
If you go deep then shallow, you will feast your eyes on different types of black corals and a host Garden Eels. Go up to the amazing pinnacle that has hundreds of hundreds of fish around, not to mention the moray eel companied by the two cleaner shrimps, frog fish are found there. considered one of the best if not the best dive site at night, regarding the pinnacle there, you just can find endless numbers of fish, shrimps, crabs and many many other things, photographers put on their macro and just go to the pinnacle, on the way back from the pinnacle, pay attention, you might find the curious squid! Its called with the Eel Garden regarding the massive numbers of garden eels coming out from the sand!

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Rated excellent for snorkelling and highly recommended for diving.
This beautiful site is located just south of the Fist Bay, between Ras Al-Yamania and the camping site. This now is also a boat dive. The reef extends about 500m out from the shore in front and just north of the old camp site. There are excellent coral patches covering the sandy bottom. Fish life white morays, triggers, goat fish, and angles, scorpions, lion fish, wrasses, scribbled leather jacket, butterflies, damsels, clown fish and odd blue spotted stingray.

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Ideal for snorkelling, diving is excellent further down.
It is located between the former Camping site and the Rainbow reef. Well-known regular sightings for turtles. Coral garden starts just below the surface with fire corals and pinnacles. Fish life emperor, snapper, crocodile fish, lyre tail, small trigger fish, wrasse, parrot fish, lion fish and scorpion fish, box fish, many butterfly fish and regularly visited by turtles.

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A turtle is a must here.
A turtle is a must there, if you don't see a turtle on this dive, you will definitely see the cables! These are the cables from Egypt to Jordan. There are three reefs with a valley between each, you have to hover to reach from one reef to another! The dive site located 110m to the north of the ship wreck buoy, it is between the Black rock and the ship wreck.

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This site is (excuse the pun) the FlagShip of diving in Aqaba and is
highly recommended.
Snorkelling is possible also! The wreck of Lebanese freighter (760 tons, length 78m and 20m wide) was purposely sunk in 1985 to provide an artificial reef. The wreck is marked by a surface marker buoy less than 150m offshore. it lies on the port side, bridging two reefs, so you can swim underneath it at about 25m. Near the stern is a life boat in 20.5m depth. The ship is in good condition, the holds are open and you can swim inside, so a good wreck even for novice or inexperienced divers. Corals: very good soft corals growth, magnificent garden of sea fans covering the wreck inside and out side. Fish life: Lion fish and angel fish, large snappers, schools of double bar bream, barracuda, and the smaller reef species such as damsels are well represented.

Japanese Garden

Rated as Excellent for snorkelling and diving, it can be shallow and deep.
At the beginning it contain coral patches on which you might find a frog fish carefully camouflaged, but visible if you look closely. When you go more south you will find more corals and further down, there is a drop off that leads to below 40m where a huge spotted eagle ray can be occasionally found in about 30 metres, so we assume it's living there. Make sure to leave at least a metre between you and the bottom, a sting ray might be hiding under the sand between the coral patches. Loads of cornet fish can be found there specially one of the pinnacles.

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Rated as one of the best for diving, snorkelling recommended Site is named after a large (gorgonian) sea fan coral, which you can find around 15m deep. The shore entry is through zigzag like passage interesting also for snorkellers. The reef is sloping gently. In the shallow water are very interesting pinnacles with colourful life. Large yellow cabbage at beginning of dive, fire corals and brain corals, varieties of stony corals.
Fish life: on pinnacles shoaling glass fish, or sleeping up side down lion fish.

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Rated excellent for diving, snorkelling possible Dive site is also named by two Gorgonian fan corals, which is 20m and 29m depth.
Site is located south of the Gorgonia I. - just left site of the parking area in the Marine Park. This dive site has varieties of pinnacles and reefs with a different shapes and depth. Very interesting pinnacles are in the shallow water. Fire corals at the beginning of the dive, table corals, cabbage and stony or raspberry corals.
Fish life: lion fish, scorpion fish, parrot fish, wrasse fish. The reef is frequently visited by green turtles, feeding on sea grass.

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Lots of interesting invertebrate life in the shallows...
Easy entry over grass to where reef starts at 2-3 m. Swim through the pinnacles and then turn in towards the shore to another set of pinnacles "the Fairy Ring".... Continue south at 8 m where patchy coral makes way for grass and sand till you will see in 6m an M40 anti aircraft tracked vehicle (The Tank) scuttled in September 1999 to create an artificial reef. Play around it, but not on it ! It now has some well established coral growth and many residents. From here make your way to the safety stop and out.
Corals: variety of all sort of soft and hard corals.
Fish life: moray eel, scorpion fish, lion fish, parrot fish, many butterfly fish and box fish, damsels and lizard fish.

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Oliver's Canyon

Rated a deep dive.
A zigzag entry, sloping down to one galley between two reefs and meeting at the end of another galley from the other side, the dive site is a deep dive. Sting ray is sometimes spotted hiding under the sand of either galley, ascending east to a shallower depth where you can meet the tank!

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Eels, eels, and more eels.
The site is located at the south of the New Canyon (Tank Wreck). The canyon is divided to two parts with a table coral in the middle. The site consists of parallel valleys lined with hard and soft corals where you can go through some cave-like structures which look like tents from a distance. The reef is flat sloping downwards to +40m.
Corals: various all sort of corals, soft and hard.
Fish life: moray eel, scorpion fish, lion fish, parrot fish and many butterfly fish and box fish, damsels and lizard fish.

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Named a after a diver from New Zealand who discovered it, it contains patches with loads of life around it.
Its a very easy dive and an interesting one, good for macro photography. A crocodile fish and a turtle live there plus a sting ray is always at 25m, Spanish dancers and llion fish everywhere! (look for small things).

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A very interesting place, but it's filled with fishing lines.
Its out of the marine park borders that means anyone can do fishing-unfortunately. The lines have been left there and coral has grown on them which is interesting, it also has large coral patches with sandy areas in between, an eagle ray, turtle and octopi (octopuses to you!) can be found there amongst other species, so we never know what to expect.

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A very excellent dive site not frequently dived due to the difficult entry over the fringing reef but well worth the struggle.
For this reason we visit this site with only one or two divers. Once your dive begins, you enter a sandy area with coral patches directly after the fringing reef which goes down to a nice drop off where you will find some small caves! Its a magnificent to witness the deep from 30m which extends down to more than 70m when the visibility is good. Turtles are spotted there with some eagle ray, Spanish dancers, octopi and sting rays, yet .. you don't know what to expect.

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A deep dive.
Its considered as a deep dive as it descends down quickly to 30m and more of course. Two large reefs teeming with aquatic life. Octopi and Napoleon fish can be found there, it contains some coral patches while ascending with lots of fish around each. Buffalo puffer fish are always there, you can do the safety stop while swimming next to the fringing reef which is really nice till you reach the exit, be careful while doing the safety stops, stone fish might be hiding in the sand.

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Rated excellent for diving and snorkelling.
Adjacent to the Aqaba/Saudi border (hence, the name). It is one of the most popular dive sites. A zigzag entry to coral patches leading to the drop off with a very long wall extending north west for up to a distance of 850m. The biggest cabbage coral in Aqaba and guaranteed in every dive a great variety of fish life .