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The Canyon is located 10 minutes N from Dahab. |
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how? | From shore |
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distance | Short walk from shore (< 5min) |
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easy to find? | Easy to find |
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More Details |
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week crowd |
Crowded |
| week-end crowd |
Crowded |
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dangers |
- Depth
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Dive site Characteristics |
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Quality |
| | dive site quality | Great |
| | experience | CMAS ** / AOW |
| | bio interest | Interesting |
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Dive site infos |
| | average depth | 18.0 m / 59.1 ft |
| | max depth | 55.0 m / 180.4 ft |
| | current | Low ( < 1 knots) |
| | visibility | Good ( 10 - 30 m) |
| | dive type | - Deep
- Cave
- Reef
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Dive site activities |
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- Marine biology
- Photography
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Author: mark margolis
Contributors (2)
They dived this site ! (19)
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Additional Infos |
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| | It is a fault/crack that has been formed after a earthquake that touched the Gulf of Aqaba. The entrance of the Canyon is at 18 meters and you drop down until 30 meters. It's partially a overhead environment and from there the divers can go through the crack and exit at a depth of 14 meters.
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Geo-localization |
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| Datum | WGS84 [ Help ] |
| GPS Lat. | 28° 33.29' N |
| GPS Long. | 34° 31.247' E |
| Precision | Approximate |
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GPS History (1)
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Latest Dives |
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The Canyon, Egypt
By N2Narcosis, 2008-05-06 11:36:06
Deep Exit
The usual dive for this site is to enter the Canyon at around 22m and turn almost north a head progressively shallower to the fish bowl but we decided to enter and turn south and exit at 53m as there were no divers that way as deco was required but d
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The Canyon, Egypt
By mismail, 2006-06-03 14:20:00
O/W 4
- YEHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO last Open Water dive, finally i am a PADI certified diver now.
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The Canyon, Egypt
By divingstcon, 2006-01-11 13:20:33
Sharm El-Sheikh
Multilevel CAD.Very beautiful cave with narrow entries and exits, which scarried several divers of our group, even AOWD.Main cave is 36 m deep, entry's corridor lays on 30 m. Impressive dive.
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