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Dive #42 · Monday, 30 July 2007 · 13:54
Sha'ab Samadai (Dolphin House)
Red Sea Marsa Alam and the deep south
- Day 4 of 6 · Egypt Jul–Aug 2007 →
- 2nd dive of the day(also #41 Sha'ab Samadai (Dolphin House) 10:36, #43 Brayka Bay 20:02)
- longer than 67 % of all dives
- Max depth
- 15.2 m
- Bottom time
- 62 min
- Surface
- 31 °C
- Air
- 36 °C
- Visibility
- 25 m
Kit
- Gas
- Air
- Cylinder
- Alu80
- Pressure
- 210 → 40 bar
- Mode
- Open circuit
- Weights
- 6 kg
- Suit
- 7 mm / shorty, booties, open-heel fins
- Surface interval
- 2:26
- Safety stop
- 3 min
- Difficulty
- 1 (easy)
- Conditions
- Surge: n/a; weather: clear; current: n/a; tide: n/a
Where
Sha'ab Samadai (Dolphin House)
A horseshoe reef whose lagoon is a daytime resting place for spinner dolphins — and a working example of zoning saving a site that was being loved to death.
Dive 2 of 2 here · first 2007 · last Jul 2007
With
On the map
Sha'ab Samadai (Dolphin House)
No route marked
- Entry / exit
- Buoy
- Point of interest
- Marker
- Pinnacle / rock
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Coral / reef
- Other area
- Depth
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
No dolphins here either, but another very nice dive. We went through lots of canyons and at the start through a cave system. It was beautifully lit and well filled with common bigeye.