It started with a dive log
After several hundred dives around Hurghada, El Gouna and Marsa Alam, our founder kept a growing notebook of species that were hard to identify anywhere online. A long-time photography hobby followed him underwater — and those frames became the backbone of a public, photo-rich atlas, so the next diver surfacing with a question has somewhere to look.
Today it documents 931 species with 2,165 photos, alongside guides to the reefs, dive centres and dive sites of the region — all kept free and ad-light by its readers.
What we do
Every species photographed, named and described — from common clownfish to rare nudibranchs.
No paywall, no account required. Information about the ocean should belong to everyone.
Divers contribute sightings and photos; readers fund the hosting and the field trips.
The people behind it
Help keep it free
Reader support and contributed photos are what keep the atlas open and growing.