Dahab Diving Experience

Located almost exactly in the center of the town, it offers a huge variety of marine life. Starting with schools of Barracudas, it’s not rare to meet Napoleon Brasses, Octopus, Scorpion and Crocodile fish between giant pinnacles full with soft and hard corals. So many different options to dive this dive site. One of our favourite approaches is coming behind those giant pinnacles, swim over the saddle into an amazing coral garden with huge table corals and gorgonians. The way back leads again over the saddle and with an awesome coloured reef to your right, you will have more than plenty opportunities to feed your camera.

This site is accessible by car from Dahab in about ten minutes. Getting into the water is fairly easy and is done from the beach. After crossing an area of sand then a seagrass, we arrive at a succession of line of corals starting from the beach and sinking towards the sea. the abundance of corals makes it a very colorful site full of marine life. The return to the exit is through a shallow coral garden in which we regularly encounter geometric moray eels

Gabr el Bint ranks among one of the most attractive sites of North Sinai. With the access by boat, 4×4 or by camel, it is less frequently dived than the other dive sites in Dahab which has left this site in pristine condition. Gabr el Bint means ‘The Grave of the Girl’ in Arabic. There are two dives possible here. The ledge is riddled with exquisite coral heads that attract numerous reef species, including swarms of anthias, scorpionfish, parrotfish, crocodilefish, surgeonfish, triggerfish, trumpetfish, stingrays and very often a turtle. At the end of the ledge usually is home to a shoal of black and white snappers and twinspot snappers hang here between 5m and 10m. One of the truly breathtaking dives in Dahab

The Canyon dive site is on the way to the Blue Hole. Most likely you’re going to dive here as well when you go to the Blue Hole. You will have a short swim through a shallow sandy lagoon. The exit of this lagoon and the following pinnacles are just breathtaking and will blow your mind. From 5-20m you’ll find a beautiful garden of corals and then discover the canyon itself – a split between the reef going down to 54m. Beautiful soft and hard corals as well as the chance to see Octopus en masse, making this dive truly amazing.

The Blue Hole/Bells is one of the most famous dive sites in the world, it´s also the dive site that started the hype of diving in Dahab. It’s the spot for Free divers, Tec divers and Recreational. Usually one enters this site through an open chimney called the Bells. The name comes from the sound of tanks touching the wall as it’s very narrow, only one diver can go down at a time. Divers exit this chimney at approximately 26m and swim to the right along the outer wall of the Blue Hole where majestic overhangs full of corals are waiting to be marveled. You could also spend the day at the comfort of the cafe while you enjoy multiple different profiles at the same site through the hole shore entrance.