Marine Life Shark attack at Egyptian Red Sea resort

[The Chairman]

Hi, Basic Open Water Diver here (13 dives) heading out to Sharm this week. Still undecided about whether to dive.

Unless hand fed, most sharks avoid critters that fart out of their mouths. Diving should be fine.

 

[touny71]

@rjk75 No, there are no shark feedings in Egypt.
@pakno1 Unfortunately the press is always keen having shark stories, usually very dramtatic and illustrated with the common picture of a White Shark, regarless of what it really was. Looking at stats will tell you that the most dangerous part of your holiday will not be a shark encounter but the journey from your home the airport.
Furthermore, while learning about this new environment and the life in it, you will realise that sharks are your least concerns. Just thinking of moray eels with their 2 jaws or the Titan Triggerfishs and so on and so on.
As a diver you are not on the menu and they may be curious and come closer but most of the time, they will ignore you.

There's definitly shark feeding at brothers. They not chum the water like in the Bahamas, but if you're throwing fish guts and sardines of keep the OW's around, then that's shark feeding in my book

 

[Adr1an]

None of those hotels in that area have any hotel nearby in terms of side by side.

Well, it depends how you define the area. Closer to Marsa Mubarak there are 3 hotels pretty close to each other (a Fayrouz, Costa Mares and Jaz Amara). Also the Hilton Nubian and some other hotel (cannot remember the name) are very close left and right to the Abu Dabab bay. On the other hand South to Sataya there's nothing whatsoever for quite a few kilometers. And North to it there's just another hotel halfway to Abu Dabab.

Anyway, regarding the shark feeding thing, in Egypt is definitely forbidden for hotels to allow tourists to feed any fish from the pontoons. In practice, if someone takes some bread to the pontoon it may take a while before the lifeguard notices. A Czech (if memory serves) tourist died a few years ago when he took some fish cooked at the restaurant, made a paste with some oil etc, threw it in the water then jumped in to the feeding frenzy below. Apparently a shark was lurking nearby waiting for a medium sized predator to attack the small fish...

 

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