Hurghada, El Gouna, Makadi Bay, Soma Bay and Safaga
Your wedding band slipped off in the kite water at El Gouna
Beginner kite lessons at El Gouna run in shallow standing areas, with choppier water farther out.
A wedding band lost in the shallow standing area of a kite lesson is worth a search. Whether it is found turns on how exactly the place where the lesson ran can be marked on a map, and on whether you had stayed in the standing area or gone out beyond it.
Ring Seekers is a lost ring and jewellery recovery service that connects people who lost a ring, wedding band, watch, keys or phone in Hurghada, El Gouna, Makadi Bay, Soma Bay or Safaga with a metal detectorist who can search there.
Tell us what happened and where. We find a detectorist who can reach the beach, brief them with your map and photos, and tell you honestly if the odds are poor.
From El Gouna, north of Hurghada, the coast runs through Hurghada itself, Sahl Hasheesh and Makadi Bay to Soma Bay on its peninsula and the quiet seaside town of Safaga, and every one of those places is on this page.
Talk to the instructor or the crew today
An instructor, a boat crew or the staff on the beach saw roughly where you were. Ask them to point to it on a map while they still remember, and check whether anything has been found since. Then go through the kite bag, the pockets of anything you wore in the sea, and the car or transfer bus.
In El Gouna, hotels and private properties each have access to sandy beaches, so name the property whose sand you were on. Along the rest of the coast, a kite station, the Soma Bay jetty, a beach on the Giftun Islands or a stretch of the Hurghada promenade places you just as well.
Places we cover from El Gouna to Safaga
- Hurghada
- Hurghada beaches
- Hurghada Corniche
- Hurghada Marina, Sakkala
- Giftun Islands
- Sahl Hasheesh
- El Gouna
- El Gouna lagoons and canals
- El Gouna kite stations
- Abu Tig Marina
- Downtown El Gouna
- Makadi Bay
- Soma Bay
- Soma Bay beaches
- Soma Bay jetty and house reef
- Soma Bay Lagoon
- Soma Bay marina and town centre
- Safaga
- Safaga beachfront
El Gouna in the north, down through Hurghada to Safaga
Lagoons and marinas at the northern end, open beaches and a jetty farther south.
El Gouna lagoons and kite stations
El Gouna is a resort town of winding turquoise canals and lagoons, so you may have swum in a lagoon rather than the open sea. It is also a kiting hotspot with dozens of kite stations, which usually have lounging areas and restaurants. The kiting water has shallow standing areas for beginners.
Abu Tig Marina and Downtown El Gouna
Abu Tig Marina has cafés, shops and restaurants, and Downtown El Gouna has more places to eat and go out at night. Catamarans and private yachts leave El Gouna for reef and dive stops. Anything dropped from a deck in the marina is placed by the berth number or the name of the yacht.
Hurghada, its beaches and the marina
Hurghada has sandy beaches and resorts along the shore, and warm, calm water where people splash and snorkel close in or head out by boat to dive. In town, the marina promenade in the Sakkala district looks over the moored boats, and the Corniche has waterfront restaurants. The sand, the promenade and the Corniche are separate searches, so say where you were when you noticed.
The Giftun Islands
The Giftun Islands are a short boat ride from the Hurghada coast. Straw huts dot white sand over clear blue water, several beaches take day visitors, and people snorkel and dive around the islands among the reefs. Tell us which beach the boat landed at, and whether the loss was ashore, in the water or on board.
Sahl Hasheesh and Makadi Bay
Sahl Hasheesh and Makadi Bay sit on the coast between Hurghada and Soma Bay, and Makadi Bay is one of the Red Sea's resort towns. Mark the sunbed and the point where you entered the sea, and if the two were some way apart, draw the path you took between them.
Soma Bay, its jetty and the lagoon
Soma Bay is a resort town on a peninsula south of Hurghada, with white sandy beaches and tranquil water. Wide, flat beaches lead into shallow wading water, and a wooden jetty runs straight out to the house reef. Kiters and windsurfers use the smooth, shallow water of the Soma Bay Lagoon, and the marina and town centre have beachfront restaurants.
Safaga
Safaga is a quiet seaside town and port south of Hurghada, known for its undisturbed beachfront and its dive sites. Visitors come for sand therapy, burying their feet or their whole body in sand believed to have healing properties. For a ring that went missing during a sand session, mark where you lay and where you rinsed off afterwards.
Who reads your messages, and what they pass on
The person you write to
You deal with one person throughout, on WhatsApp. The detectorist hears your account from them, so you never have to tell it twice.
What the instructor saw
If an instructor or a boat crew told you where it happened, their words go into the brief next to your pins and photos.
Deep water, a straight answer
Out past the standing water, or overboard from a moving boat, the odds drop. A loss like that is a long shot, and you would hear that from us first.
Talked through first
We explain the costs before any search is booked, and the decision to go ahead stays with you.
Shallow water close in, reefs within reach
Shallow water off the beaches at El Gouna, Hurghada and Soma Bay, and many Hurghada snorkel spots with shallow, accessible reefs.
Water you can stand in
The kite areas at El Gouna and the beaches at Soma Bay both have shallow water where people stand and wade. Say how long after going in you noticed, and whether you had moved along the beach since.
Lagoons and canals
In El Gouna you may have swum in a lagoon or a canal rather than the open sea. Say which, and name a building or landing opposite the place you swam.
Banana boats and parasails
Banana boats and parasail rides run from resorts along this coast. Ask the crew where the fall or the landing happened, since they know their route better than anyone watching from the sand.
Questions about Hurghada, El Gouna, Makadi Bay, Soma Bay and Safaga
During a beginner kite lesson at El Gouna, I lost my wedding band in the standing area.
El Gouna's kite spots have shallow areas where beginners can stand, with choppier water beyond them for advanced riders. If the lesson never left the standing area, the search starts in that shallow stretch. Ask your instructor to mark on a map where the lesson ran, tell us which kite station ran it, and send a photo of the band.
Taking photos from the Soma Bay jetty, I let my phone slip into the sea.
The jetty runs straight out from the beach to the house reef, so we need to know roughly where along it you stood, near the beach end or out towards the reef. Tell us too whether it went off the left or the right as you faced the sea. A picture someone took of you on the jetty around that time can fix the spot.
I had a sand therapy session at Safaga, and my ring was missing afterwards.
Sand therapy in Safaga means burying your feet, or your whole body, in the sand, so the place you lay is the first place to look. Pin it as closely as you can, and say whether you sat up, shook out a towel or walked to the sea straight afterwards. It also helps to know whether anyone dug or raked that sand after you left.
Our son came back from the beach at Makadi Bay without his watch.
Makadi Bay is one of the resort towns on the coast between Hurghada and Soma Bay. Start with his swim shorts, the beach bag and the towels. Then tell us whether he wore the watch in the sea, mark the sunbed and the stretch of water he swam in, and send a photo of the watch with its strap.
The clasp on my chain gave way somewhere along the Hurghada marina promenade, and the pendant is missing.
The marina promenade, in the Sakkala part of Hurghada, runs beside the moored boats, and people come to eat there looking out over them. Walk the route back in daylight and leave a description at the places where you stopped. If you stood at the edge looking down at the boats, tell us, and the water below goes on the list.
After a snorkel off a Hurghada beach, I found my Oura ring gone.
Many snorkel spots around Hurghada have shallow, accessible reefs, so the swim may well have stayed within reach of a search. Mark your entry and exit points on a map, say which way you swam and for how long, and mention anywhere you stood up on the way.
Our villa in El Gouna looks onto a lagoon, and I lost an earring swimming there, not in the sea.
El Gouna has many winding canals and lagoons, and people swim in them as well as in the open sea, so a lagoon is covered like any beach. Pin the steps or the bit of shore where you got in, say roughly how long you swam and in which direction, and send a picture of the earring that is left.
We all tipped off the banana boat at Soma Bay, and my bracelet went with the fall.
Soma Bay has wide, flat beaches with shallow wading water close in, and a fall near the beach is a very different search from one farther out. The boat crew can show you on a map where it happened. Send that with a pin for the spot where you climbed aboard and a photo of the bracelet, and we will tell you plainly what that position means for a search.
Hurghada, El Gouna, Makadi Bay, Soma Bay and Safaga
Which town it was, and the water or sand you were on
Kite station, jetty or sunbed, name it in your first message.
Write to us on WhatsApp naming the town and the item, add a map pin for where you were, and we will come back with our questions about the day.