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🇪🇬 The Lighthouse, Dahab
Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt
Dahab's house reef and the town's training ground — a beach in the middle of Masbat with a wall fifty metres off it.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 24.5 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2008
- Position
- 28.4989, 34.5197
- Also known as
- Lighthouse
Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026
History
- 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
- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Pinnacle / rock
- Shoreline
- Depth contour
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Sand
- Depth
Dahab's town beach at the north end of Masbat bay: entry from the beach corner, down the sand slope along the south edge of the reef flat past coral heads at 7–9 m, out to the reef tip with the crack at about 20 m, sand to 30 m and deeper water beyond 40 m. Positions are approximate. Coastline from OpenStreetMap.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
The Lighthouse is in the town, at the north end of the Masbat waterfront, and it is where Dahab does everything: open-water courses, night dives, freediving, equipment checks, and the first and last dive of most people's week. There is a shallow sandy bay with a bit of coral in it for training, and then, about fifty metres out, the reef edge and a wall.
That combination — a proper wall reachable from a café table — is the reason Dahab became a diving town rather than just a nice bay. The wall itself carries the usual Gulf of Aqaba life: hard coral on the shoulder, gorgonians deeper, glassfish in the overhangs, and enough fish diversity that people who have dived it two hundred times still do it again.
Dived here with
Nearby sites
1 dive at The Lighthouse, Dahab
- 13 Aug 2008 with Kim date13 Aug 2008 depth24.5 m time64 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)