Forty Years in the Red Sea (Above and Below) Photo Gallery by Howard Rosenstein at pbase.com

Forty Years in the Red Sea (Above and Below)

Over most of my adult life I have had the pleasure and privalige to live, work and dive the Red Sea. This Gallery is a selection of images taken throughout these past 40 years from a young man fresh out of university in California and barely 20 years old and now a grandfather still diving and loving this amazing sea.
Here is a brief video that also captures some of the spirit, adventure and history of diving in this incredible area.
http://www.scubahalloffame.com/videobios/2009/rosensteinvideo.html

Special thanks and appreciation to my wife Sharon, without her it would never have happened.
Hope you enjoy

Red Sea Divers poster	Satellite image of Sinai	Coming to Red Sea first time 1966	First Diving Center Sidna Ali, Israel 1970	Sidna Ali diving Center Mediterranean 1970
Signs of War	Egyptian tanks found at one of the first dive sites	Egyptian tanks found at Marsa Bareka	Naama Bay early 70's	Naama Bay early 70's
Coast between Ras um Sidd and Naama near Amphorae wreck	Naama Bay 1970's	Sinai Coastline	Mangroves Shurat el Manqeta	Naama bay 1973
Naama Bay 1970 photo by Yoske Galilee	Naam Bay 1976	Bedouin Woman	Bedouin Fishermen	Sinai Shore between Naama and Ras Um Sidd
Bedouin encampment Wadi Kidd	Inflated Dining Room Caravan Hotel Sharem 1971	The old sign	Red Sea Diving Center Sharem el Sheikh in Train Car 1973	Red Sea Diving Center Sharem el Sheikh in Train Car 1973
Red Sea Diving Center Sharem el Sheikh in Train Car 1973	Wild days	Sharon diving at Dahab 1972	Howard and Sharon diving Red Sea 1972	First American Group 1972 with Yehuda Melamend and Danny Popper
Bay Travel Group USA 1972 with Ken Seybold	Sinai Coastline	Sinai Coastline	Sinai Coastline	Dahab
Naama Bay 1982	Ras Um Sidd and Sharem el Sheikh	Ras Mohamed Campground	Exploring the desert	Sharon promoting Red Sea Diving USA 1973
Safari fleet 1974	Safari fleet 1974	Sharon and Ayelet 1974	Baby Ayelet on the Beach	Howard and Zvika Naama Bay 1974
Naama Bay 1974	With Genie Clark at Ras Mohamed 1974	Anne Levine Doubilet on National Geo assignment	Sharon, Ayelet and Genie Clark 1974	Promo cover by Nat. Geo
Cover shot by David of Red Sea Story	National Geo Sept. 1975 Red Sea story.jpg	Camera 35 - June 1974 by Howard	Diving with Doubles with Alex and Zvika	Baby Ayelet on the Beach Nature Girl
Santa Katerina Monastery, Mt. Sinai	Diving in Bedouin Well Saint Catherin Monastary Mt. Sinai	Diving in Bedouin Well Saint Catherin Monastary Mt. Sinai	Hans Hass at Ras Mohamed	Howard and Bruno Vailati 1975_resize.jpg
	039_24.jpg	034_13-.jpg	Ras um Sidd	Straits of Tiran
tiran straits	Ras Mohamed by David Doubiler to National Geographic story Sept. 1975	Head of Mohamed (look in the middle section of the cliff !!)	Ras Mohamed	Divers at Ras Mohamed
Ras Mohamed diving area	Ras Mohamed the Islands	Genie Clark at Ras Mohamed Reserve	Doubilet image of Howard used by Nat. Geo	Howard by Doubilet book cover
Howard by Doubilet book cover	David Doubilet and Eugenie Clark on National Geo Shark Story	Eugenie Clark on National Geo Shark Story	Shark Story National Geographic 1974	Genie and a Photoblepheron (Flash Light fish) from National Geographic story (by David Doubilet)
Sharon, Howard, Harry Wadsworth and Genie Clark	Naama Bay 1970's	with Mohamed	Naama Bay 1970's	Naama Bay 1970's
Marina Sharem igloos !!	Naama Bay 1970's	Red Sea Divers Center Naama Bay 1976	Red Sea Divers Center Naama Bay	Red Sea Divers staff, L-R Sharon, Howard, Rachel, Yossi, Ayelet, Agadi and Chmeed.
Welcoming a dive group from Caymans	Ofira from the sea	Ofira aerial	Making Imax movie with Chuck Nicklin	Naama Bay 1982
Naama Bay 1970's	Red Sea Divers Center Naama 1979	Naama Bay 1970's	Naama Bay 1970's	Naama Bay 1970's
Naama Bay 1970's	Flood of 1979	Flood of 1979	Loading the boats	USA Ambassador Lewis and Chuck Nicklin.jpg
Howard and Sharon	never crowd the boat	Red Sea Diver 1 the first real dive boat in the Sinai (1975)	Red Sea Diver 1	With Chuck Nicklin and Anne Levine
Red Sea Diver 1	The metal boat	Naama Bay Jetty with Red Sea Diver "Fleet"	The Tom	Loading up for a day of diving
The fleet	Waving goodbye to the dive boat	With Nadav, the training begins	with Maestro Leonard Bernstein
	Dive to Adventure Dunraven by Jack McKenny	Dunraven expedition by Shlomo Cohen 1976	Carl Roessler leads yet another Sea and Sea group	1976 Spotting Shaab Mahmoud and the Dunraven Shipwreck for the first time
Dunraven Wreck	Dunraven Shipwreck	Jack Mckinney and Sari Gaines visit a shipwreck	Jack McKinney and Capt. Ole Filming "Gods other World"	U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis, Chuck Nicklin and Dan Arazi Dunraven movie
Dunraven remains	Skin Diver Mag feature on Red Sea 1979	Louella goes aground at Gordon Reef 1981	Loullia On the Tiran reef	Lara on the Tiran Reef
Wreck at Abu Nuhaus 1979	The Yolanda Sinks Ras Mohamed 1979	The Yolanda Sinks Ras Mohamed 1979	The Yolanda Sinks Ras Mohamed 1979	Dr. Eugenie Clark finds the Yolanda "treasure"
Naama Bay from National Geographic story 1981	Naama Bay from National Geographic story 1981	Aboard the Tom 1981	Family	Sharon and Howard aboard Nirvana off Shadwan island 1979
Shooting in a wreck	Sharon diving	Manta	Carl Roessler shot this one	Carl Roessler shot this one
Sadat and Begin in Sharem 1981	039 Sadat and Begin low.jpg		Peace is in the air	Meeting with Egyptian and Israeli Military officials
Sinai withdrawl story	Egyptian UW Photographer Ayman Taher	EGYPTIANS_COME_TO_RAS_MOHAM.JPG	National Geo Sinai withdrawl story April 1982.jpg	043 Family outing from Nat. Geo.jpg
Rosenstein family snorkeling from National Geographic March 1982.jpg	National Geographic Sinai Withdrawal Story March 1982.jpg	1983 A new company - Fantasea Cruises	With Ambassador Samuel Lewis
David Doubilet and Genie Clark	Fantasea 1 at Marsa Bareka	Fantasea 1 at Marsa Bareka	Fantasea 1 with Capt. Yehuda	Briefing a dive
David Fridman, Genie and Yehuda	U.S. Ambassador to Israel and UN Thomas Pickering	John Stoneman filming Red Sea		Family shot
DIVING ROSENSTEIN'S	U.S. Ambassador to Israel William Brown	005_F1000059_resize.JPG	Apollo Astronaut James Irwin	At Brothers Lighthouse Egyptian Red Sea
Buying Fantasea 2 in Palma		Zabbergad Island
Fantasea 2 wheelhouse		Barbara Walters on Fantasea 2	Barbara Walters on Fantasea 2	with NY group
First group on Fantasea 2		Sharon	Fantasea 2 crew with Capt. Eran	Stan Waterman
Stan Waterman group on Fantasea 2	filming with French TV Nicolas Hulot	Nicolas Hulot of Ushuaia	Ariel	Diving Routes of Fantasea 2 from Israel to Madigascar
Entire Red Sea from North to South by David on Fantasea 2	Skin Diver Article	Promoting with Sylvia Earle	Promoting with Stephen Frink	Chuck Nicklin
Sharon, Genie Clark and Howard	Ayelet at Dolphin Reef	Sharon and Daria	Photographing	Photographing in wreck at Brothers island
		Leading a group	Being Harassed by Egyptian Helicopter	Daedalus Reef
Brothers Island	Daedalus reef	046 Fantasea 2 Daedalus Red Sea.jpg	With Stan Waterman on Fantasea 2	Sudan rescue
Rescue of Fantasea 2 guest off the Sudan coast by the Israeli aiforce 1991	Sudan Shipwreck with Air Force Helicopter rescue	Fantasea 2 towed off the reef Sudan 1991	Entire Red Sea from North to South by David Doubilet on Fantasea 2	Fantasea 2 at Mahe Seychelles
Fregate Island, Seychelles 1992	Seychelles	La Digue Island Seychelles	Aldabara Exploration	Seychelles President plane at Assumption island
the presidents plane.jpg	Fantasea 2 in Aldabra Lagoon	Aldabra Lagoon from air Aldabara Story National Geographic, David Doubilet 1995	Snorkeling off Fantasea 2, Assumption Island, Aldabra group, Seycheclles	Boobies in Aldabara Mangroves.
Giant Tortoise, Aldabara Story National Geographic, David Doubilet 1995	Astove Atoll, Aldabara Story National Geographic, David Doubilet 1995	Aldabra Island	Aldabra Lagoon	Fantasea 2 crew
National Geographic Aldabra expedition 1992.jpg	Aldabra expedition	Aldabra Lagoon	Aldabra Lagoon	David Doublilet and gear on Fantasea 2
National Geographic Aldabra Expedition 1992	Aldabara for Nat. Geo	Fantasea 2	Aldabra Lagoon	Duke of Westminster family Aldabra
Duke of Westminster family Aldabra	Aldabra Mangroves Seychelles	Assumption Island, Seychelles	Madagascar	Hellsville, Madagascar Harbor Master
Madagascar BBC Film with Nadav	Madagascar	Madagascar	Joanna Lumley, BBC movie Madagascar
		Ayelet and Nadav in Palau		Naama 1979 Red Sea Divers Center
Naama 1980	Naama 2009	Naama Bay Dec. 2008	at DEMA for Fantasea Line	Ocean Realm feature on Red Sea
Explorers Oct. 2004		wild days 1970's	settling down 2000's	wild days 1970's
settling down 2000's

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Luigi Carta	PM reply	16-Oct-2011 09:37
Absolute fantastic memories and historical records. Great job. Thanks for sharing. V

Peca Radifkovic		12-Oct-2011 19:08
It was a journey through time and water. Thank you for sharing this unique photos and stories

rick wallace	PM reply	26-Feb-2011 19:41
I'm so happy I stumbled on to your pages. I am fascinated by your story as told by these wonderful photos. Thank you for sharing.

joseantonio	PM reply	30-May-2010 05:51
Impressive gallery

Jean Paul Machico		28-May-2010 07:38
Wonderful pictures. Beautiful memories. Thank you.

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