Coral Reef Guide Red Sea: The complete Red Sea marine life guide for diving and snorkelling enthusiasts

It is the perfect book if you want to know what you looked at after a dive in the red sea. I want to set up my aquarium as a nano red sea and it is perfect to identify the corals/fish that I need in the tank. The book is very clear and with a lot of pictures. Perfect!

Has been an excellent resource to use in identifying the critters I filmed on a recent trip to the Egyptian Red Sea

At this point I can consider myself very lucky, living in Italy, to be so close to the Red Sea. It is since 2002 I spend one or two weeks each year for diving and snorkeling in various locations on Red Sea. I have to say that each time I find always something new to discover and appreciate. The book is just a confirmation that effectively these corals, fishes and everything else can be seen easily and is not only for hyperskilled men. Quite a superb collection of pictures.

Great pictures! Beautiful color.

I went to red sea for a diving trip and this was very helpful, this can be use beyond red sea.

I'll soon be heading to the Red Sea for several days of diving and I wanted a single field guide that would cover all forms of marine life. This book appears to do so. Each species is illustrated with an underwater color photograph along with biological and physical descriptions in text. It looks to be very complete.

... but this far my best source to identify my neighbors from home reef of duna in nuweiba, south sinai.

Justed it under diving in Sharm el Sheik. Okay enought. Pictures was old and many with bad colours.

Genau wie man sich er vorstellt, spannende Lektüre für einen Strandurlaub – sehr interessante Infos, super Bilder. Nach jeden Tauch kann man was neues identifizieren, lernen, mehr vom Gesehenen verstehen. Das Buch ist fest und im Plastik eingepackt, es wurde wirklich an alles gedacht. Ich wünsche mir, dass auch andere Gebiete ähnlich bearbeitet werden!

Good packaged and good quality

El libro no es nuevo como se indicaba. El contenido es bueno pero está usado.

A great variety of species from the red sea and the good quality photos make this book excellent for red sea life identification

Well, I have read all the rave reviews about this book, and maybe my expectations were too high because of this? It may be the most complete guide for the Red Sea, but there are just too many photos that are far from excellent. My criticism is restricted to the fish part, as I think the other parts are quite fine. That is also why I still give it four stars (three and a half would be more appropriate actually). Five for the non-fish parts, and only three for the extensive fish section. Sure, there are many fine photos, but many are low contrast, blue water with blue fish when the fish should be silvery. I'm sure with modern equipment, many species could be shown better. Also, I think a number of pictures are such that identification is not easily verified. A case in point is the Red-Sea Fusilier on page 107. Looks like the fish up front is swallowing a smaller fish? But the typical head shape of the fusilier is no longer there because of it. The black and white tail pattern can be seen in this picture, but the appearance of it is so dull that one wonders why this common fish did not get a more typical illustration. I have not had the book when I was in the area, but I bought it afterwards to try to identify several species that I remember well enough. Some fish had a proboscis-like elongation. The only one in the book with that shape is the Indian Bird Wrasse on page 158. But the ones I saw had either a red-orange seam of fins, or in case of the larger ones a greenish one. Neither of these color patterns are visible nor mentioned. But since the book is certainly not omitting a relatively common species, I must conclude that I saw this species, despite the fact that nothing reminds me of it except for the shape. There are more problems. Many fish that had a very typical appearance I simply can't find. Presumably young versions that are often not shown?