Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 Umm Gamar

Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt

"Mother of the Moon" — a crescent of rock 90 minutes north of Hurghada, the tip of a drowned mountain, with a coral plateau on one side and a wall on the other.

Dives here
1
Deepest
21.6 m
Water
salt
First · last
2017

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. 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 topSouth plateau 14-24 mUmm Gamar IslandEast wall, 35 m+West wallUsual dive · 755 mMooringsLightThree small ergs, glassfish↓15 m↓16 m↓16 mPinnacle with chimneysCaves in the east wallCaves in the west wallCoral garden (advanced)Shallow sub-reefsCurrent, deep waterN50 m
  • Buoy
  • Hazard
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Lighthouse / tower
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Shallows
  • Coral / reef
  • Depth
Site map · 11 objects · 1 path · max 18 m

Umm Gamar reef with its crescent islet, the moorings on the south plateau (14-24 m) with the three small glassfish ergs on its eastern corner, the usual dive east to the drop-off and north along the wall to the three chimney pinnacles and back on the current, caves in the east and west walls and the coral garden at the northern tip. Reef, islet, light and mooring come from OpenStreetMap; the features and route from dive-centre site descriptions (divers-guide.com, redseacreatures.com), placed by description, so the plateau extent and the erg and pinnacle positions are approximate. Reef data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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

Umm Gamar means mother of the moon, for the crescent shape of the small island that breaks the surface at the top of it. What you dive is the rest of the mountain: an isolated reef rising from deep water, roughly T-shaped, about 90 minutes north of Hurghada by boat.

The southern plateau at 14–24 m is the usual dive — a coral garden with turtles, batfish, Napoleon wrasse and morays, and enough small ergs to keep the navigation interesting. To the west the plateau is shallower and broken into little sub-reefs. The northern end falls away into current and depth.

Dived 17 October 2017. This is the dive whose log page has an empty Team box, and whose buddy was reconstructed as Kim from the rest of the liveaboard week.

Dived here with

Kim

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1 dive at Umm Gamar

  1. 17 Oct 2017 with Kim boat date17 Oct 2017 depth21.6 m time64 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)