You can also buy a card for five visits for the price of three. Lockers (NIS3 every time you close them), showers, and well-stocked snack bar on site. Brochures, maps, and books on the coral reef are available at the entrance. The Coral Beach Reserve now operates a “Snuba” program (tel. 37 27 22) for people who have never dived before; the air tank is on a raft to which the Snuba diver is tethered (N1S95 for Wi hours of diving and instruction. Sales office open 9am-6pm.)

Novice and advanced scuba divers should look into Aqua Sport (tel. 37 44 04), next to Coral Beach (mask US$3, fins US$3, snorkel US$2, or US$7 complete setup; complete diving equipment US$40, introductory dive US$40). They also rent windsurfing equipment for US$ 10 per hour. A six-day international diving course (equipment included) costs US$220 and 10 qualification dives for two-star certification (equipment included) cost US$230 (summer $295). Sinai Camping and Diving Safaris, run by Aqua Sport, leave every Thursday at 6:30am for one, three, five or more days of fun down under. (One day US$75, US$65 if just snorkeling; 3 days US$270, including cruise, US$230 for snorkelers; and 5 days US$420, including two cruises, US$390 for snorkelers.) They also cruise to Coral Island (Gazirat Faraun) off the Sinai shores.