Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 Brayka Bay

Marsa Alam, Red Sea, Egypt

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.

Dives here
5
Deepest
20.5 m
Water
salt
First · last
2007 · 2007
Also known as
Brayka Bay House Reef

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

North reefSouth reefSandy lagoonJetty↓12 m↓25 m↓8 m↓20 mUsual route · 944 mDive centreErg 11 m↓11 mErgs 5 m↓5 mErg 16 m↓16 mErgs 20 m↓20 mErg 30 m↓30 mErg 28 m↓28 mErgs 12 m↓12 mErg 40 m↓40 mErgs 25 m↓25 mBeach entry↓0 mSpeedboat mooringsN50 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Buoy
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Coral / reef
  • Sand
  • Depth
Site map · 10 objects · 1 path · max 40 m

The sheltered bay of Brayka Bay with the north and south house reef, the sandy lagoon with the speedboat moorings, the jetty on the south side and the ergs in the channel with their depths. Coastline, reef flats and jetty from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); the ergs and depths are placed against the OSM reef edges. The route (out along the sheltered north reef, back over the ergs) is a typical house-reef dive, not a signed trail. All positions are approximate.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

Brayka Bay is a resort bay on the coast north of Marsa Alam, with a sheltered sandy lagoon and a fringing reef on each arm. The northern reef drops off properly; the southern side is shallower and carries seagrass.

Five dives across 27–31 July 2007, from 4 m to 20.5 m, which is the signature of a house reef being used as one: check dives, night dives, and the two-tank mornings when the boat was not running.

Dived here with

Kim Maarten

Nearby sites

5 dives at Brayka Bay

  1. 31 Jul 2007 with Kim date31 Jul 2007 depth15.4 m time65 min water—
  2. Early morning dive 31 Jul 2007 · with Kim boat date31 Jul 2007 depth20.5 m time52 min water—
  3. 30 Jul 2007 with Maarten night date30 Jul 2007 depth16.7 m time55 min water—
  4. 28 Jul 2007 with Kim night date28 Jul 2007 depth14.3 m time43 min water—
  5. 27 Jul 2007 with Kim training date27 Jul 2007 depth16.5 m time52 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)