Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · Dahab and the Gulf of Aqaba

🇪🇬 Moray Garden, Dahab

Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt

Scattered coral blocks on sand below a shallow drop-off, named for the eels that live in them.

Dives here
1
Deepest
22 m
Water
salt
First · last
2005

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

Sand plateauCoral ridge 6-14 mUsual route · 522 mBuoyCoral block↓13 mCoral head↓12 mTable corals↓12 mCoral block↓7 mCoral head with glassfish↓6 mBeach entryN20 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Buoy
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Coral / reef
  • Sand
  • Depth
Site map · 5 objects · 1 path · max 13 m

Sand plateau with the buoy, coral blocks at 7-13 m, the coral ridge at 6-14 m and the glassfish coral head with the usual loop, placed on the OpenStreetMap coastline; positions and depths are approximate. Coastline © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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

One of the southern shore sites. A sandy slope runs down to about 10 m, then a shallow drop-off at 18 m, and between them the bottom is scattered with coral blocks of various sizes standing free on the sand. The largest of them, at about 14 m, is the set piece. Average depth is around 15 m and there is little reason to go past 25.

The name is accurate: the blocks are riddled with holes and the holes have moray eels in them, often several to a block, and often out and moving in daylight.

Dive 42, 3 August 2005, to 22 m.

Dived here with

Fred

Nearby sites

1 dive at Moray Garden, Dahab

  1. 3 Aug 2005 with Fred date3 Aug 2005 depth22 m time50 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)