Ras Nasrani - Local

In Arabic the name Ras Nasrani means Christian Cape. Immediately south of Ras Ghamila, the dive begins at the floating pontoon/jetty. Best done 15-18 metres of depth the reef starts with a descending hard coral wall, many fusiliers swarm in the blue water just off the reef, part way through the dive there is a sandy bay which indicates the start of the corner, at this point if the currents are flowing they will get stronger bringing nutrients to the reef and changing the type of reef. Soft corals become more abundant on the corner, look up over the reef plate to see the spectacular colours. As the current dissipates the corals change again to mountainous porities corals with schools of goat fish hiding amongst them. Often the current will change towards the end of the dive, turn your dive and bring it up to the 5 metre mark swim amongst the porites and search for scorpion fish and stone fish.