Pictures show woman giving birth in the Red Sea

WARNING: Graphic images

Incredible photographs showing a newborn baby being delivered underwater by a tourist in the Red Sea off Egypt have left the internet amazed. 

The mum, believed to be a Russian woman, gave birth with help from a Russian doctor, who specialises in water births, and her husband.

Pictures of the doctor and the baby's dad carrying the baby out of the waves in the resort town of Dahab have been circulated on social media.

The photos, which show the baby with its umbilical cord still attached and its placenta in a plastic container, were taken by a tourist from a hotel balcony.

The baby's mum had just given birth after going into the sea while wearing a bikini, according to eyewitnesses.

Local media reports that Dahab, which lies on the south-eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula, 80 kilometres north-east of the popular resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has becoming increasingly popular with mums-to-be wanting a water birth in the sea.

Some Facebook users praised the apparent "beauty" and "easiness" of the baby's water birth.

The woman, her husband and their baby have not been named and there is no report on the baby's gender or latest condition.