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Dive #48 · Wednesday, 1 August 2007 · 15:06–16:00
Gabal el Rosa
Marsa Alam, Red Sea Marsa Alam and the deep south
- Day 6 of 6 · Egypt Jul–Aug 2007 →
- 2nd dive of the day(also #47 Gabal el Rosa 09:29)
- deeper than 65 % of all dives
- Max depth
- 18.5 m
- Bottom time
- 54 min
- Surface
- 30 °C
- Air
- 38 °C
- Visibility
- 25 (9 op diepte)
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
- 4:48
- Difficulty
- 1 (easy)
- Conditions
- Weather: clear; current: n/a; tide: n/a
Where
Gabal el Rosa
A bay south of Marsa Alam dived three times across one week, on both the boat days and the shore days.
Dive 3 of 3 here · first 2007 · last Aug 2007
With
On the map
Marsa Gabal el Rosas
No route marked
- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Pinnacle / rock
- Shoreline
- Depth contour
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Coral / reef
- Sand
- Depth
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
Good dive that we were going to do with two others, but before we knew it they had disappeared from view. We saw a giant moray and a couple of very large porcupinefish, a small school of barracuda and a number of lionfish. The moray was truly huge — it was easily 2 metres long.