Erg Gamea'

Five old military pieces were sunk at Erg Gamea' to create an artificial dive site. In the region, the Hurghada underwater museum was inaugurated in September 2023, in a partnership between the government, the Egyptian Armed Forces and HEPCA. The museum's aim is to redirect Hurghada's large volume of diving away from coral reefs worn down by tourism.

Among the museum's vehicles are Soviet BRDM-2 armored vehicles and T-34-85 tanks, Egyptian Walid armored transports, an American M-60 Patton tank and several Spanish BMR-600s. The expectation for the museum is that schools of fish will colonise each vehicle, followed by algae, that soft coral will form after about a year, and that bigger corals will appear in five or six years. At Erg Gamea', corals are already starting to grow and schools of fish are increasingly large around the sunken pieces.