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Diving

Dahab is for the divers very popular. Compared to other seaside resorts of Egypt's tourism boom delayed Dahab brought up in the late 1990s particularly well-preserved reefs with beautiful coral. Unfortunately, the onset of mass tourism then many corals destroyed, so that the proportion of dead coral is now a good 20% have achieved expected (but cut Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh, far worse). Popular dive spots are the "canyon", the "Islands", "Oasis", the "Bells" and the "Golden Block". Particularly well known is the dive spot "Blue Hole", one of the most famous in the world. As an exceptionally deep and low-flow Spot (110m, 201m outside), it is of apnea divers and Tec-divers highly valued. In 1998, the University of Stuttgart first time a reef check on the house reef diving Inmo base in the southern part of Dahab performed. The investigation was led by the current chairman of the VDST Prof. Franz Brümmer. As one of the results revealed in the 72 meters away Riffkante at a Transekte in 3 m deep that the substrate to 68% of stone and fire corals, soft corals 13%, 13% dead coral, 3% and 3% rock rock consists others . In the coral stone was found with 54% of the genus Poritis sp. as the dominant share, followed by Acropora sp. 25% and Pocillopora sp. 3%. The proportion of the genus Millepora (even nettle animals but no coral, but belonging to the Hydrozoae) amounted to 18%. Wherever possible, the soft coral species after distinguished, with Lobophyton 23%, Sinularia and Lithophyton each received 15%