Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 Bluff Point, Gubal Seghir

Strait of Gubal, Red Sea, Egypt

Bluff Point on Gubal Seghir, the smaller of the two Gubal islands, whose sheltered bay is the standard overnight mooring on the northern wreck route.

Dives here
1
Deepest
13.3 m
Water
salt
First · last
2009
Also known as
Gubal Island · Gobal Island

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

The BargeLagoonGubal SeghirReef edgeDrift along the wall · 734 mBluff Point light↓0 mBluff Point wallCurrent round the pointThe Barge↓14 mNight mooringN100 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Hazard
  • Point of interest
  • Wreck
  • Lighthouse / tower
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Shallows
  • Wreck footprint
  • Depth
Site map · 3 objects · 1 path · max 14 m

The Bluff Point corner of Gubal Seghir, the standard overnight mooring: the light, the wall where the current wraps round the point, and the Barge (about 35 x 6 m, 14 m) in the sheltered bay. Shore, reef edge, light and the Barge position come from OpenStreetMap, the Barge size and depth from the Red Sea Wreck Project; the lagoon is the shallow strip between the reef edge and the shore. The drift line is the usual wall drift from the point to the mooring, not a recorded track; positions are approximate.

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

Gubal Kebir (Big Gubal) and Gubal Seghir (Small Gubal) sit in the middle of the strait that takes their name. They are low, bare, sandy islands with a lighthouse, and their value to divers is mostly that they give shelter: the anchorages behind them are where the northern wreck boats spend the night between the Thistlegorm and Abu Nuhas.

The dives here were at Bluff Point on Gubal Seghir (Small Gubal), not on Gubal Kebir. The reef in the bay there is shallow hard-coral garden on sand — undemanding, well lit and full of small life, which is why it gets used for the third and fourth dives of a day that started on a wreck at 30 m.

Dived 30 November 2009 to 13.3 m.

Dived here with

Kim

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1 dive at Bluff Point, Gubal Seghir

  1. 30 Nov 2009 with Kim nightboat date30 Nov 2009 depth13.3 m time46 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)