Sha'ab Rumi

Red Sea · Sudan

Sha'ab Rumi, Sudan
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winter and spring
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A ring-shaped reef north of Port Sudan best known as the site of Jacques Cousteau's Precontinent II underwater habitat. Remnants of the 1963 experiment still sit on the seabed among schooling sharks and healthy coral.

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