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By boat from Hurghada |
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how? | By boat |
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distance | Good boat time (< 30min) |
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easy to find? | Easy to find |
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More Details |
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Dive site Characteristics |
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alternative name | Iris, Sha'ab Iris |
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Quality |
| | dive site quality | Good |
| | experience | CMAS * / OW |
| | bio interest | Outstanding |
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Dive site infos |
| | average depth | 9.1 m / 29.9 ft |
| | max depth | 15 m / 49.2 ft |
| | current | Low ( < 1 knots) |
| | visibility | Good ( 10 - 30 m) |
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- Marine biology
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Author: Chris Weldon
Contributors (1)
They dived this site ! (5)
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Additional Infos |
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| | Part of the Abu Nugar complex, and west of Umm Gamar, this is a sand bottom with scattered coral heads. Very interesting for seeing little fish and branches since there is enough sand that you can ground yourself withoug worrying about hitting the coral here.
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Geo-localization |
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| Datum | WGS84 [ Help ] |
| GPS Lat. | 27° 19.30872' N |
| GPS Long. | 33° 48.3371' E |
| Precision | Approximate |
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GPS History (1)
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Latest Dives |
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Shaab Iris, Egypt
By Christopherweldon, 2007-04-13 13:37:00
Adventure dive #3, PPB
3rd Adventure dive, and second dive of the day. The weather was not good...very windy and rough seas. We were all tired from the long swim on the dive before, so we worked on boyency control and did a little sight seeing, but came up ea
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Latest Trips |
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Trip: Red Sea (Hurghada)
By Christopherweldon, From 2007-04-12 to 2007-04-16
My family and I recently returned from Egypt and an outstanding week of diving in the Red Sea!!
We booked the entire trip through a small company in Hurghaa called Sunshine Diving ( http://www.sunshinediving.com ) and they were
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