Beacon Rock

Beacon Rock is home to the wreck of the Dunraven, which is part of the Ras Mohammed National Park. The ship's cargo was lost in the sinking and the fire. There are reports that there were no casualties and that the crew was rescued by local fishermen. In 1979, the Dunraven was the subject of a BBC documentary. The site itself takes its name from a metal beacon on the southern tip of the reef.

Today the hull lies upside down, broken in two parts, and can be entered through three large openings. Without its cargo, it looks like a large, practically empty cave. Inside there are schools of goatfish and glassfish, moray eels and beautiful soft and black corals. Along the hull you can find nudibranchs, scorpionfish, pipefish and even the rare ghost pipefish.

On the reef next to the wreck you can spot barracudas, turtles and batfish, and dolphins sometimes swim by. The site is also good for stonefish, schools of goatfish, giant moray, lionfish and crocodile fish, as well as huge sea fans and Porites coral heads. There are stable populations of groupers, scorpionfish, crocodilefish, alcyonarians and sponges, and an almost intact coral garden on the outer slope above the bow.