Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 The Caves, Dahab

Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt

A line of small overhangs and short tunnels cut into the reef wall south of Dahab — caverns rather than caves, all of them daylit.

Dives here
1
Deepest
29.5 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

Reef tableReef tableGravel 7 mSloping sand↓15 m↓40 mUsual route · 317 mCave↓7 mCave↓9 mCoral block↓13 mCoral block↓15 mCoral blocks↓28 mCoral block↓28 mShore entryN20 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Dive path
  • Shallows
  • Sand
  • Depth
Site map · 6 objects · 1 path · max 40 m

Reef table with the gravel cut at the entry, the two caves beside it, the sloping sand with coral blocks and the usual loop to about 30 m, placed on the OpenStreetMap coastline; positions and depths are approximate. Coastline © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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

Down the southern coast road. The reef wall here is undercut and pierced by a series of small chambers and short swim-throughs at 10–20 m, none of them long enough to lose the light and none of them requiring a line — caverns in the strict sense rather than caves.

They are worth doing for the light: the openings face west into the afternoon sun and the interiors are full of glassfish, so the standard photograph is a silhouette against a blue hole in the rock.

Dived here with

Tim

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1 dive at The Caves, Dahab

  1. 4 Aug 2005 with Tim cavecavern date4 Aug 2005 depth29.5 m time43 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)