Red Sea Diving: Videos Showing Actual Reef Conditions

[Sure Squintsalot]

When researching potential dive sites, I'm often frustrated by the lack of detailed overview videos of dive conditions at that site. If videos exist at all, they might be 3 minutes of crappy stick-held GoPro footage or glorious professionally produced "Best-of" clips complete with drone shots and sea life (likely represented by big league Hollywood agents).

I didn't set out to shoot these videos with the intent of using them as a "record of conditions". I shot them to:

1. Record what I mostly saw and remember the experience of having been there, usually in front of a big screen, on the sofa with a nice beer.
2. Record things that I might have missed during the dive. I'm often astonished at the things I hadn't noticed while distracted by stupid stuff like safety, buddies, not breaking the reef, and other nonsense like resurfacing.
3. Learn, at my considerable leisure, all about these dive sites. Since I can't afford a suite of personal marine scientists to dive with me, I'll use these videos as a starting point to identifying sea life, behaviors, reef morphology, and local ecology.

A little bit of generic music helps fill the aural gap as there is no narration, though I'd like to do that with future videos synthesizing the interesting stuff with call-outs and captions. That these videos might be useful to anyone contemplating visiting these sites makes me super happy, but is entirely coincidental. I'll periodically update this thread with links to new videos as I process them.







Do you have similar videos for Red Sea locations? Please post your links below.