On sea chart you will find this reef with the name Hyndeman reef (this name is not used suburb) and the name Shaab Sheer lead back to Abu Kafan. This names are coming from the fishingman and they are older then the oldest sea charts, so you can forget the sea charts. The reef has a from like a horseshoe and it is more then 1 kilometre long. It offer a perfect berth with three wonderful dive sites closed and also six more which can be reached very easy by a raft. The illustration is showing the east-end from Shaab Sheer where the three ergs are building a channel together with the main reef. Outside you will find an extensive garden with brain corals with an atmosphere like on the moon. In this three ergs there are some uncommon beautiful caves and grotto.The north side of the reef is open to the sea and it can be a little bit rough. The south side is nearly like a lagoon and always good protected. Currents can be from the north-side a little bit stronger. She divide up at the middle of the reef and flow at the east- and west side along. The west side turned to the deep south Safaga channel and the current here is very strong but also in the shallow channel between the three ergs and the eastern reef the current can be sometimes stronger.