Question 1

What do you actually know about Blind Reef?

Accepted Answer

Its position, and little else. It sits at 27.5497 N, 33.8989 E in the Strait of Gubal, a few kilometres from Sha'ab Abu Nuhas. We searched operator write-ups, liveaboard site notes, dive guides and the Red Sea Atlas catalogue and found no published description of a dive site under this name, so we have left depth, visibility, current and difficulty blank rather than guess.

Question 2

Why is this page so empty?

Accepted Answer

Because the alternative is inventing a depth. The Strait of Gubal has a lot of small islands and reefs and a lot of named entries in dive catalogues that nobody has written up. A confident wrong number on a dive-site page is how someone gets hurt, so an honest blank is the better answer.

Question 3

Where is it, in terms I can picture?

Accepted Answer

In the channel that connects the Gulf of Suez to the open Red Sea, bordered at its southern entrance by Shadwan Island on the west and the Sinai Peninsula on the east. The Abu Nuhas wrecks, the Thistlegorm and the Rosalie Moller are all within the same stretch of water.

Question 4

How would I get there?

Accepted Answer

By boat, like everything in the Strait of Gubal - Hurghada day boats or a northern Red Sea liveaboard. We found no operator advertising this specific site by name, so in practice you would be diving it because a skipper chose it, not because you booked it.

Question 5

What might I see?

Accepted Answer

Our own occurrence records for this location are sparse: zebra angelfish, twoband anemonefish and a commensal shrimp at the top, then blackspotted sweetlips, yellowsaddle goatfish and a scattering of butterflyfish and wrasses. That is an ordinary Red Sea fringing-reef assemblage. It tells you what lives in the water; it does not tell you what the dive is like.

Question 6

When is the best time of year?

Accepted Answer

We have nothing site-specific. Across the Gubal area generally, surface conditions are choppier in winter, with average wave heights around 0.6-0.8 m, and rainfall is negligible in every month, so the season question here is about wind and sea state rather than rain.

Species	How often	Records
Amphiprion bicinctus	rare	2
Ancylomenes longicarpus	rare	2
Genicanthus caudovittatus	rare	2
Chaetodon paucifasciatus	rare	1
Cheilinus abudjubbe	rare	1
Epibulus insidiator	rare	1
Gymnothorax griseus	rare	1
Halichoeres hortulanus	rare	1
Meiacanthus nigrolineatus	rare	1
Ostracion cubicum	rare	1
Parapriacanthus guentheri	rare	1
Parupeneus cyclostomus	rare	1
Taeniura lymma	rare	1
Acanthaster benziei	rare	1
Chaetodon semilarvatus	rare	1
Plectorhinchus gaterinus	rare	1
Nembrotha megalocera	rare	1
Chaetodon austriacus	rare	1

Blind Reef

Blind Reef

The dive

Access & rules

Getting there

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Season

Conditions

Questions & answers

Life recorded at Blind Reef

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