Jackfish Alley
Location guideRas Mohammed

Jackfish Alley

830 mopen water+large pelagicscoral● In season now

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Overview

Drift along a sandy slope with a wall on one side and the blue on the other. Bigeye trevally hunt in packs through the alley; whitetip sharks rest on the sand. Two shallow caves break up the wall around 8 m.

What you'll see

4 species curated
  • Bigeye trevally
    year-round
  • Whitetip reef shark
    year-round
  • Bluespotted ray
    year-round
  • Crocodilefish
    year-round

Sightings evidence

1 record on file
  • Bigeye trevally
    high confidence
    Last confirmed
    May 2026
    Recent records
    65 within 50 km
Sources & methodology

How we summarise this

We aggregate confirmed occurrence records from GBIF and OBIS within a fixed radius of each dive site. Occurrence records confirm presence and reveal seasonality clustering, but they DO NOT measure per-dive probability — there is no eligible-effort denominator. We deliberately do not publish a numeric '% chance of sighting' from this data.

Sources

Conditions

MonthWaterVisibilityCurrent
Jan2123 °C2030 mmild
Feb2022 °C2030 mmild
Mar2123 °C2030 mmild
Apr2224 °C2535 mmoderate
May2426 °C2535 mmoderate
Jun2628 °C2535 mmoderate
Jul2729 °C2535 mmoderate
Aug2830 °C2535 mmoderate
Sep2729 °C2535 mmoderate
Oct2628 °C2535 mmoderate
Nov2426 °C2030 mmild
Dec2224 °C2030 mmild

Season calendar

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Peak season highlighted · current month outlined

Gear for this site

Beyond the basic kit
  • SMBDrift dive exit over open water.

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