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Japanese Gardens Dive Site, Aqaba, Jordan

Japanese Gardens Aqaba locate just to the south of the Shipwreck. Japanese Gardens dive site is one of the best dive sites worldwide. It has very good conditions for diving and snorkelling.

The site is a combination of shallow depths and a heavy presence of barracudas, sergeant majors and fusiliers. This makes this place-like diving site the perfect diving destination for divers of all experience levels. Keep at a 20 meters depth and swim along the edge of the reef over bushes of black coral.

Japanese Gardens Dive Site

Name: Japanese Gardens Aqaba

Dive: Reef

Depth: max – 30 meters / 100 feet

Access: shore and boat

Visibility: 10-30 meters

Snorkelling: available

Japanese Gardens coral Dive Site

Marine life of Japanese Gardens

If sharks are to be seen (White Tip Reef sharks) this is where you will see them in the deep blue of the Gulf to your right. At 23 meters at the head of a gully, there is a large Gorgonia Fan coral. From here start working your way into the shallows, keeping an eye out for resident turtles.

The reef begins in shallow water and then gently slopes to the magnificent colourful reef bed. There are very large schools of Anthias (Goldfish) that play with the golden sunbeams while getting their snack of plankton around the pinnacles. Lyre Tail Groupers, Royal Angelfish, Moray Eels, and big Clam Shells are also very common here.

Diver at Japanese Gardens dive site Aqaba
Nudibranch Red Sea
Cabbage coral

Entry is through a narrow gully in the fringing reef and then descend to an eel grass bed, where you will find Snowflake Morays. The main reef encounters at 5 meters then follow it down through shoals of Orange Basselets and Sergeant Majors.

In 2013 many corals were placed here from the Saudi Border to save them from destruction due to the development of a new port facility there. You will see many tagged markers. They are now starting to flourish and become part of this great reef again. There are two boat moorings on this reef one nearer the shore and another on the outer reef.

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Japanese Gardens Dive Site, Aqaba, Jordan

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