Im an experienced diver who has been diving over 12 years and visited the red sea 15 times.

I have seen many Grey reef and Whitetip reef sharks but never an Oceanic Whitetip Shark near the shore until 1st October 2010.
This was at the “Check dive site “ of Ras Katy – just south of Ras um Sid and Naama bay.
We had moored up our Live aboard and were relaxing before our night dive when to my surprise a 2 to 2.5 m Oceanic Shark, along with an accompanying shoal of pilot fishes came swimming around our Dive boat.
It continued to swim around near the bow for over 40 mins , mouthing the surface water and splashing about until it got too dark for us to see it.
Only 4 divers did the night dive after this and none of us saw the shark during our 30 minutes swim around the Pinnacle – too busy dodging the Lion fish !
Local dive guide and crew said it was a “friendly shark” and they appeared to have seen it regularly!
We nicknamed it Bruce !!