Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 Coral Garden, Dahab

Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt

The shallow reef south of the Canyon lagoon, and the second half of a two-dive morning on the same entry.

Dives here
1
Deepest
29.4 m
Water
salt
First · last
2008

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Log titles removed from the aliases · Dennis Bakhuis
  2. 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

Reef flatReef flatLagoon 3 mCoral gardenReef edge↓10 m↓25 mThe CanyonCoral garden loop (south of the lagoon) · 690 mEntry Canyon (beach, lagoon)↓0 mFishbowl (entry hole into the canyon)↓20 mCoral tower with cave and glassfish↓15 mGarden eels on sand↓10 mCoral headN50 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Shallows
  • Coral / reef
  • Sand
  • Depth
Site map · 12 objects · 1 path · max 25 m

The coral garden south of the Canyon lagoon: same beach entry and lagoon as the Canyon, then south over sand at 6–10 m and a field of coral heads down to the slope and drop-off. Positions are approximate. The loop runs south from the Canyon lagoon; coastline from OpenStreetMap.

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

Entered through the same sheltered lagoon as the Canyon, twenty minutes north of Dahab, but swimming south from it instead of out to the fissure. Coral heads and sand at 5–14 m give way to a steep drop-off, and the garden itself is a field of isolated bommies on white sand in good light — the easy, pretty, no-decisions part of the coast.

Dive 67, 7 August 2008, followed dive 66 at the Canyon on the same entry. Logged to 29.4 m, so the drop-off got a look.

Dived here with

Kim

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1 dive at Coral Garden, Dahab

  1. 7 Aug 2008 with Kim date7 Aug 2008 depth29.4 m time62 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)