Via Erik Trinidad in scubadiving.com: The Red Sea has attracted many scuba enthusiasts, may they be diving out of Aqaba in Jordan, Eilat in Israel or the dive centers of Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada or Dahab, home of the famed Blue Hole. In Saudi Arabia, where the Red Sea meets over 1,200 miles of its western shoreline, scuba diving isn’t new to locals. However, international travelers like myself are only now discovering the recreational diving scene in this Middle Eastern kingdom, because historically, it hasn’t always had its doors open to tourism.
