Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 Malek II

Marsa Alam, Red Sea, Egypt

A wall-and-drift reef about 15 minutes by speedboat south of Brayka Bay: a pinnacle garden on a gradual slope to the drop-off, 5–20 m, hawksbill turtles.

Dives here
1
Deepest
18.9 m
Water
salt
First · last
2007

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Neutral geo_source; neutral description · 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 flatPinnacle gardenPinnacle gardenCoral blocksCoral blocksReef edge↓24 mRoute through the channel · 211 mBoat drop (back roll)↓0 mSand channel into the reef↓8 mDrop-off↓40 m18 m24 m20 m22 m16 m18 m10 mN100 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Marker
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Shallows
  • Coral / reef
  • Sand
  • Depth
Site map · 2 objects · 1 path · max 40 m

Malek 2, a fringing-reef wall and drift dive about 15 minutes by speedboat south of Brayka Bay: the reef edge with a sand channel cutting into the reef flat, a terrace of coral blocks and pinnacles at 10-24 m and a drop-off to about 40 m. The layout is laid along the OpenStreetMap reef edge at an assumed scale (coastline © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). The position is estimated from the boat times from Brayka Bay (Nemo City 5 min, Malek 2 15 min, Marsa Egla 20 min south) and may be off by a kilometre or more along this straight coast; the boat drop point is assumed. All positions are approximate.

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

Malek 2 is one of the speedboat sites of the Brayka Bay dive centre, about fifteen minutes south of the bay along a straight stretch of fringing reef between Nemo City and Marsa Egla. The dive centre's sketch shows a wall and drift dive, 5–20 m: coral structures and a pinnacle garden near the reef wall, a gradual slope to the drop-off, sometimes a light current, hawksbill turtles.

One dive, dive #46 on 31 July 2007, a zodiac dive with two turtles. The log had the site down as a wreck and the old text described Sheikh Malek, a different bay north of the airport; both were wrong.

Dived here with

Kim

Nearby sites

1 dive at Malek II

  1. Zodiac dive 31 Jul 2007 · with Kim boat date31 Jul 2007 depth18.9 m time51 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)