Dahab

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Information about diving in Sharm elsewhere in our section on diving.

Dahab tends to be shore diving (in fact since Poseidon Divers have the only RIB in Dahab, and the authorities have refused the licence this year (2002), its currently and exclusively a shore diving resort!). This means you can book for a single dive, for either morning afternoon or night and leave it at that if you want. All very mellow.

Poseidon dive school

The blue hole is Dahab’s most famous site, and rightly so, not for the hole itself, which, when all is said and done, is just a huge blue hole (fails to get my interest!) but for the outer reef wall which is truly spectacular. Not for the physically weak or disabled, you have to clamber over steep and treacherous rocks in all your gear to reach the entry point at Bells to do the vertical wall. The entry is hardly dignified (a sort of half giant leap, half drunken collapse sideways into a small crack in the rock!).