Life & Society
The water is impossibly clear. A sea turtle glides past, unhurried, before disappearing into a curtain of parrotfish, butterflyfish, and the flicker of a lionfish half-hidden in coral. You are barely a few fin-kicks from the shore on a casual Tuesday morning in Marsa Alam. Egypt’s Red Sea coastline is one of the most extraordinary marine environments on the planet, and much of it is within arm’s reach. The Egyptian coast alone supports around 200 species of reef-building corals, roughly…
