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🇪🇬 Golden Blocks, Dahab
Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt
Two hard-coral towers the colour of brass standing on a seagrass slope, marked by a single large gorgonian at eighteen metres.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 19 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2005
- Position
- 28.4387, 34.4623
Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026
History
- r2 18 Oct 2026 Neutral geo_source · Dennis Bakhuis
- 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
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- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Pinnacle / rock
- Shoreline
- Depth contour
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Sand
- Other area
- Depth
Shore dive at the north-east end of the Happy Life Village beach, south of Dahab: sand slope and reef flat, coral blocks with tops at 7 m, the two golden coral towers at about 25 m on the sand and the drop-off from 25 to 55 m with two cracks. Oriented along the OSM coastline; all positions are approximate (tens of metres). The gorgonian at 18 m is from the site description; the coastline and the jetty are from OpenStreetMap.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
South of Dahab, entered off the shore. You descend over a sandy slope with an extensive seagrass bed on the right at 16–20 m, and swim out until two hard-coral towers appear out of it. They are a distinct warm gold colour, which is where the name comes from, and there is a big gorgonian at about 18 m that serves as the marker for finding them.
Dive 43, 3 August 2005, to 19 m — one of the first dives of Dennis's first Dahab week.
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