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🇪🇬 The Islands, Dahab
Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt
Three coral massifs separated by sand corridors and lagoons — a maze rather than a wall, and the prettiest easy dive on the Dahab coast.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 16.1 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2008
- Position
- 28.4775, 34.5117
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
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- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Shoreline
- Depth contour
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Coral / reef
- Sand
- Depth
Coral islands off the Laguna beach south of Dahab town: a wide reef flat, then an inner island complex joined to the reef edge with reef tops at 0.5 m, a sand channel at 8–10 m inside it, sand at 10–12 m around it, and an outer island with a 6 m top on sand at 16–20 m, with gorgonians at 17 m. Positions are approximate; coastline from OpenStreetMap.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
South of the town at Laguna, where the reef opens out into a complex of large coral towers standing in white sand. You navigate between them along sand-floored corridors that open into small amphitheatres and close again, most of it between 5 and 15 m, and the pleasure of it is entirely spatial — it is one of the few Red Sea sites that feels like architecture rather than a slope.
Yellowtail barracuda and twinspot snapper school in the gaps between the towers. Because it is shallow and sheltered it takes an hour and a half without effort.
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1 dive at The Islands, Dahab
- 13 Aug 2008 with Kim date13 Aug 2008 depth16.1 m time78 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)