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Dive #46 · Tuesday, 31 July 2007 · 14:43–15:34
Zodiac dive
🇪🇬 Malek II Marsa Alam, Red Sea Marsa Alam and the deep south
- Day 5 of 6 · Egypt Jul–Aug 2007 →
- 3rd dive of the day(also #44 Brayka Bay 06:14, #45 Brayka Bay 11:13)
- deeper than 66 % of all dives
- Max depth
- 18.9 m
- Avg depth
- 12.2 m
- Bottom time
- 51 min
- Surface
- 30 °C
- Air
- 36 °C
- Visibility
- 20 m
Kit
- Gas
- Air
- Cylinder
- Alu80
- Pressure
- 210 → 40 bar
- Mode
- Open circuit
- Weights
- 5 kg
- Suit
- 7 mm / shorty, booties, open-heel fins
- Surface interval
- 2:23
- Safety stop
- 3 min
- Difficulty
- 1 (easy)
- Conditions
- Surge: n/a; weather: clear; current: n/a; tide: n/a
Where
Malek II
A wall-and-drift reef about 15 minutes by speedboat south of Brayka Bay: a pinnacle garden on a gradual slope to the drop-off, 5–20 m, hawksbill turtles.
The only dive here
With
On the map
Malek 2
No route marked
- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Marker
- Shoreline
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Coral / reef
- Sand
- Depth
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
This dive site was the weakest of the lot. A lot of flat coral and few colours. We did see two turtles. The guide was an odd one, we hardly saw him at all.