Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · The Strait of Gubal

🇪🇬 Shag Island

South Sinai, Egypt

The reef at the eastern edge of the Strait of Gubal whose northern side holds the Kingston — logged here as the reef rather than the wreck.

Dives here
1
Deepest
12.7 m
Water
salt
First · last
2017
Also known as
Shag Rock

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 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

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Shag RockDrift, reef on the left shoulder · 846 mZodiac drop at the KingstonSS Kingston, 4-17 m↓17 mBeacon↓0 mZodiac pick-upN100 m
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Site map · 2 objects · 1 path · max 17 m

Shag Rock, a reef about 1 km across at the eastern edge of the Strait of Gubal, outline from OpenStreetMap. The Kingston lies on its western tip (Red Sea Wreck Project position); the reef dive drifts from there along the southern wall with the reef on the left shoulder to a zodiac pick-up. The sandy plateau at 8-10 m with a permanent mooring is not placed because its position is unknown; drift direction depends on the current.

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

Shag Rock, sometimes logged as Shag Island, sits about five miles south of Sha'ab Ali and six from the Thistlegorm. It is a large reef with a sandy plateau at 8–10 m and a permanent mooring, and on its northern side at about 15 m lies the Kingston, wrecked there in 1881.

This entry covers the dive logged against the reef; the wreck has its own file at egy-kingston-shag-rock.md.

Dived here with

Anneke Rob

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1 dive at Shag Island

  1. 14 Oct 2017 with Anneke, Rob boat date14 Oct 2017 depth12.7 m time66 min water—