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Dive #43 · Monday, 30 July 2007 · 20:02–20:57
Brayka Bay
Marsa Alam, Red Sea Marsa Alam and the deep south
- Day 4 of 6 · Egypt Jul–Aug 2007 →
- 3rd dive of the day(also #41 Sha'ab Samadai (Dolphin House) 10:36, #42 Sha'ab Samadai (Dolphin House) 13:54)
- deeper than 61 % of all dives
- Max depth
- 16.7 m
- Bottom time
- 55 min
- Surface
- 29 °C
- Air
- 30 °C
- Visibility
- 9 m
Kit
- Gas
- Air
- Cylinder
- Alu80
- Pressure
- 210 → 50 bar
- Mode
- Open circuit
- Weights
- 6 kg
- Suit
- 7 mm / shorty, booties, open-heel fins
- Surface interval
- 5:05
- Safety stop
- 3 min
- Difficulty
- 1 (easy)
- Conditions
- Surge: n/a; weather: clear; current: n/a; tide: n/a
Where
Brayka Bay
The house reef of a resort bay north of Marsa Alam — five dives over one week in 2007, which makes it the base camp of the first Red Sea trip south of Hurghada.
Dive 3 of 5 here · first 2007 · last Jul 2007
With
- Maartenfirst dive together
On the map
Brayka Bay house reef
No route marked
- Entry / exit
- Buoy
- Point of interest
- Pinnacle / rock
- Shoreline
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Coral / reef
- Sand
- Depth
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
Great dive where we saw a lot. Starting with a small grey moray. Then watched an octopus/cuttlefish encounter. Twice a nice shrimp, in particular the bonnet dancer shrimp. Just before the end we fed lionfish with our torch light and came across a giant moray. It was a real whopper. Great dive.