Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · Marsa Alam and the deep south

🇪🇬 Gabal el Rosa

Marsa Alam, Red Sea, Egypt

A bay south of Marsa Alam dived three times across one week, on both the boat days and the shore days.

Dives here
3
Deepest
23.4 m
Water
salt
First · last
2007 · 2007
Also known as
Gabal el Rosas · Marsa Gabal el Rosas · Marsa Gabel el Rosas

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Neutral geo_source · 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

North reefSouth reefSandy bottom 7 mJetty↓8 m↓14 m↓12 m↓18 m↓10 m↓20 m↓30 mUsual route · 887 mDive entry↓0 mCoral block↓12 mCoral head↓15 mHanging coral garden↓14 mAnemone City↓22 mEel gardenCave↓6 mCave↓8 mN50 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Coral / reef
  • Sand
  • Depth
Site map · 7 objects · 1 path · max 30 m

The narrow U-shaped marsa of Gabal el Rosas opening to the north-east: the sandy bottom from 7 m at the jetty to 30-40 m at the mouth, the north reef with its hanging coral garden and Anemone City outside the point, the caves in the south reef. Coastline, reef flats and jetty from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); features and depths are placed against the OSM reef edges. The entry is assumed at the OSM jetty on the north side of the bay head; the route (out along the north wall, back past the south caves) is a typical shore dive, not a signed trail. All positions are approximate.

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

A bay on the coast south of Marsa Alam, of the standard southern type: a marsa, a drowned wadi mouth, with a sandy seagrass floor inside and a reef across the entrance.

Three dives here — 28 July and 1 August 2007, to 23.4 m. Sites of this kind in the deep south are dived for what is on the seagrass (turtles, and with luck a dugong) rather than for the coral.

Dived here with

Kim

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3 dives at Gabal el Rosa

  1. 1 Aug 2007 with Kim boat date1 Aug 2007 depth18.5 m time54 min water—
  2. 1 Aug 2007 with Kim boat date1 Aug 2007 depth23.4 m time48 min water—
  3. 28 Jul 2007 with Kim date28 Jul 2007 depth16 m time66 min water—