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🇪🇬 Umm Sid, Dahab
Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt
A steep southern reef entered through a cut in the coral, with a sand slope of garden eels and giant gorgonians at thirty metres.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 22.6 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2008
- Position
- 28.4208, 34.4574
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
1 map
- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Pinnacle / rock
- Shoreline
- Depth contour
- Dive path
- Shallows
- Sand
- Depth
The sand channel through the reef, the garden-eel slope, the sand plateau, coral heads at 7-18 m, the gorgonians around 30 m and the usual loop, placed on the OpenStreetMap coastline; positions and depths are approximate, and the reef table north of the channel is wider than drawn. Coastline © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
One of the southern sites, reached by jeep down the coast road. The entry is a wide corridor cut into a steeply sloping reef; you drop through it and swim around and under a large coral tongue that hangs out over the slope.
Below that the reef gives way to sand, and the sand has a colony of garden eels standing in it — a field of them, retracting as you approach and re-emerging behind you. Following the slope down past 30 m brings you to the big gorgonian fans, which is as deep as the site is worth.
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1 dive at Umm Sid, Dahab
- 12 Aug 2008 with Fabrice, Kim date12 Aug 2008 depth22.6 m time50 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)