The First Aid center at the pier of Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai peninsula of Egypt

The pier at Sharm El-Sheikh is a fairly busy place. Given the tourist attractiveness of the place as a center for sun, snorkeling and scuba diving, there are a large number of tourists who visit there. Further, given that there is a certain time period in the day when most tourists go to the pier for their snorkeling and scuba diving, there can be a lot of crowd. Also, there is the potential for people to suffer small injuries or other problems such as a scratch due to the coral (trust me, in a couple of areas, they almost reach the water surface and can be pretty sharp), others can suffer breathing problems if they are doing snorkeling for the first time, and in odd cases, there can be attacks by some fish (for example, a couple of years back, there was an attack by some sharks on tourists in the water).

Sharm El Sheikh (New Millennium Collection: North Africa)	View Larger Map