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🇪🇬 Ras Disha
Makadi Bay, Red Sea, Egypt
The northern cape of Makadi Bay, with three coral towers standing on sand and a glassfish tunnel five metres down.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 15.6 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2009
- Position
- 27.0411, 33.9067
- Also known as
- Torfa Ras Disha
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
1 map
- Buoy
- Point of interest
- Pinnacle / rock
- Shoreline
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Sand
- Depth
Ras Disha, the northern cape of Makadi Bay: the fringing reef round the cape, the sand south of it at 10-12 m with the three ergs (the northernmost with the small glassfish tunnel at about 5 m), the coral ledge at 12-15 m and the drop-off on the east. Shoreline from OpenStreetMap; the erg positions are inferred from dive-centre descriptions (redseacreatures.com, funnydivers.com), so they, the reef edge, the mooring and the loop are approximate. Coastline © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
Ras Disha is the headland that shelters Makadi Bay from the north — 90 minutes south of Hurghada by road, 25 minutes by boat from Makadi itself.
The dive has three parts. A fringing reef wraps the cape. Just south of it, three ergs rise from sand at 10–12 m. And between the ergs and the reef there is a coral ledge at 12–15 m before the drop-off. The northernmost erg has a small tunnel through it at about 5 m that is packed solid with glassfish.
Dived 4 December 2009 to 15.6 m for 62 minutes.
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1 dive at Ras Disha
- 4 Dec 2009 with Kim date4 Dec 2009 depth15.6 m time62 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)