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2004-12-17 16:41:04 |
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主题：Dahab Dive sites
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The Blue Hole / The Bells
Location: Dahab
Description: Reef / shore dive
Depth: 35 metres
Visibility: 30 - 40 metres
Rating: *****
An excellent dive for deep blue fans. The Bells is a natural small hole at 30m in a sheer wall that drops off to 800m+. You descend straight down along side the wall and dive round the hole (upside down and looking out is best) and pop out into the blue. Blue is all you can see looking out to sea with the wall to your back. Look out for sharks and manta rays. Gradually ascending up to 15m is where all the reef life is, the usual fishes and corals. To exit from the shore you need to swim over the blue hole (again, looking for bigger life) against some fierce currents.
A fairly energetic dive, so watch your air if doing this as a shore dive, surface finning is tiring in the strong currents in this area.
 
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2004-12-17 16:43:11 |
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跟贴：The Canyon / The Fish Bowl
Location: Dahab
Description: Reef / shore dive
Depth: 35 metres (115 feet)
Visibility: 30 metres (100 feet)
Rating: *****
A fantastic dive for all levels. From a shore entry you can level off at about 30m along the gradual drop-off which continues for hundreds of metres. The canyon is a natural tunnel in the seabed which can be penetrated at several points along the rift. Once in the canyon, you can ascend up through and come out in the fish bowl, a natural cave teaming with glassfish. There is about space for six divers to rest on the sandy bed, whilst the glassfish swirl around you and cleaner wrasse will inspect masks and regs. Watch out for lionfish which guard the entrance and exit from the fish bowl.
 
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2004-12-17 16:45:36 |
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跟贴：The Islands / Seven Pinnacles
Location: Dahab
Description: Reef / shore dive
Depth: 9 - 20 metres
Visibility: 40 metres
Rating: *****
A very Dahab dive, in that the whole pace was slow and relaxing, this was pretty much diving a good snorkeling spot. Entry was from the beach near the Hilton the pinnacles section of the dive was spent at about 8m. No large life as would be expected but very warm, light and vibrant colours due to the minimal depth! A meandering swim around all the pinnacles teeming with glassfish, goldfish, angelfish, lionfish etc.
The Islands had very interesting rock formations, with natural rifts. There are some huge brain corals here, and fish included puffers and napoleon wrasse.
 
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2004-12-17 16:47:11 |
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跟贴：Lighthouse
Location: Dahab
Description: Reef / shore / night dive
Depth: 15 metres (50 feet) - 35 metres max
Visibility: 15 metres
Rating: ****
The lighthouse is so called as it is located near Dahab's lighthouse. Entrance is from the busy beach area, so it is important that you stow your belongings away rather then leaving them on the shore during your dive. On entrance look out for the frogfish located within the rope for the swimming area, they are always found in this location apparently!
The dive site follows the reef round, with pinnacles and reefs providing a good variety of life, we found a large octopus, morays, red sea walkman, crocodile fish and the usual assortment of fishies.
It also makes a nice shore dive at night. Very peaceful and quiet reef with all the beautiful reds that you don't see during the day. Fish out hunting included lionfish, squirrelfish and octopus and there were lots of fans and urchins. The last five minutes of the dive was done without torches to see the phosphorescence. We dived in full suits to avoid any scratches and stings from the unseen!
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2004-12-17 16:48:35 |
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跟贴：Three Pools / South Oasis
Location: Dahab
Description: Reef / shore dive
Depth: 20 metres
Visibility: 40 metres
Rating: ***
The second dive from the south oasis after a lazy lunch. This was a mammoth dive and I was beginning to get a bit chilly in a shortie. Starting off by swimming out to an overhang, with schools of barracuda and ending up at 5m swimming around the shallower corals.
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2004-12-17 16:52:26 |
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跟贴：Eel Garden
Location: Dahab
Description: Reef / shore dive
Depth: 5 - 20 metres
Visibility: 30 metres
Rating: ***
Eel Garden is located around twenty minutes drive south of Dahab. Facilities at the dive site include some basic Bedouin style shelters. Normal practice is to make the trip in jeeps or small pickup trucks and then kit up on the sand/rock beach on large woven matting. Tale care with your regulators as the course sand can easily get into the second stage diaphragms. Once kitted up, entry is made by walking into the shallows and donning fins. The seabed falls away reasonably sharply down a sand and coral slope and there are gullies and small canyons which can be followed quickly down to the 30m+ mark. Red Sea bannerfish and coral groupers are prolific here. There are also a number of giant clams with their colourful mantles collecting sunlight for symbiotic algae. About 10 minutes swim to the south of the entry point at around 22m is a coral outcrop covered in glassfish or sweepers.
As you begin to ascend and head back towards the shore there is a never ending abundance of stony coral, including yellow waver and raspberry coral. The usual clown fish (twin band anemone fish) inhabit their anemone homes. Look carefully here as there are some fantastic bright red bubble anemones. The latter part of your dive and safety stops can be completed on the sand and coral encrusted slope with pipefish and flounders. Eel Garden is great place to start your diving holiday before moving onto offshore boat dives or some of the big vertical drop-offs.
 
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2004-12-17 16:59:18 |
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跟贴：Shark&Yolanda Reef
 
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2004-12-19 14:57:20 |
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2004-12-19 17:41:04 |
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跟贴：Dive site: The Islands
Location: On the Dahab coast, next to the Lagona Hotel
Access: By car from Dahab, then shore entry
Average Depth: 12m
Maximum Depth: 16m
Average Visibility: 20m
Rating (for diving): *****; (for Snorkelling): ****
The Islands is a dense concentration of coral pinnacles and patch reefs in a sheltered location along the Dahab shore - a labyrinthine range of peaks, valleys, corridors, sand patches, bowls, amphitheaters, deep wells and coral peaks.
This intricate seascape is densely covered with absolutely pristine coral; the reef practically glows with a jewel-like quality. The range, condition and density are awesome - probably the most diverse and well-preserved selection of coral in the Sinai area. Every conceivable hard coral is present, with a diversity of soft coral to match.
Stunning as the coral is, it is rivaled by the fish life - huge schools of barracuda, snapper, surgeon and unicornfish vie with scintillatingly colored reef species. Sea bream, emperors, big triggerfish, rabbitfish, birdnose wrasse and a hundred and one other species round out the picture, with the occasional turtle thrown in for good measure. One particular highlight is a large, sand-bottomed amphitheater halfway along the reef, where giant schools of immature barracuda congregate, circling like a flashing silver tornado.
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