Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 Gota Abu Ramada

Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt

Coral towers on white sand at thirteen metres, so dense with fish that every boat in Hurghada calls it the Aquarium.

Dives here
3
Deepest
13.1 m
Water
salt
First · last
2009 · 2017
Also known as
Gotta Abu Ramada

Revision 2 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 10 Oct 2026 Neutral wording · 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

↓14 mGota Abu RamadaDive east · 318 mDive west · 262 mMooringsErg, three peaks↓14 mErg↓14 mPinnacle↓14 mPinnacle↓14 mPinnacle↓14 mCoral garden, brain corals, grottoesWhite sand 12-15 mN20 m
  • Buoy
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Dive path
  • Shallows
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Site map · 7 objects · 2 paths · max 14 m

Gota Abu Ramada, the Aquarium: the oval reef on white sand at 12-15 m, the moorings on its southern flank, the two ergs about 20 m off the west side (the northern one with three peaks), the three pinnacles and coral garden off the east side, and the two usual routes, east or west from the mooring and back. Reef outline and mooring from OpenStreetMap; the ergs and routes from dive-centre site descriptions (redsea-diving.com, divers-guide.com), placed by description, so their positions and the sand extent are approximate. Reef data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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

South-east of Hurghada, a shallow reef of coral pillars and table corals standing on brilliant white sand, with a maximum depth of about 15 m across the whole site. Everybody calls it the Aquarium, and for once the nickname earns itself: the towers hold enormous standing shoals of glassfish, anthias and goatfish, with bannerfish and Napoleon wrasse working through them.

Because it is shallow, sheltered and safe it is the classic second or third dive of the day, and dives here run long — 76 minutes on one of the three in this log.

Dived 2 December 2009 and again on 17 October 2017.

Dived here with

Kim Nijve Wim

Nearby sites

3 dives at Gota Abu Ramada

Dives per year

  1. 17 Oct 2017 with Nijve boat date17 Oct 2017 depth13 m time45 min water—
  2. 17 Oct 2017 with Kim boat date17 Oct 2017 depth13.1 m time76 min water—
  3. 2 Dec 2009 with Wim boat date2 Dec 2009 depth12.3 m time55 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)