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Getting there
Not sourced. The position is on the Dahab town shoreline at the southern end of the bay, where access is generally on foot from the promenade or through a dive centre's own beach, but we have no description of this particular entry.
Lands End, Dahab
Egypt · reef
shore entry
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Lands End, Dahab
A name our catalogue carries that no dive centre publishes. The coordinates land at the southern end of Dahab bay.
Max depthnot sourced
Required levelnot sourced
Entry typeshore
Visibilitynot sourced
The dive
We could not corroborate this site. 'Lands End' does not appear in the site lists of the Dahab dive centres we checked, and the only description we found sits on the dive-spot directory that is the upstream of our own catalogue - which is not a source, and which in any case places Lands End about 150 m south of the Lighthouse, roughly 3 km north of the coordinates this record actually carries. We therefore adopt none of it and leave the numbers blank rather than fill them with someone else's guess.
What we can say is where the point is. At 28.4746 N, 34.4977 E it sits at the southern end of Dahab bay: 620 m from the Swiss Inn Beach entry, 760 m from the Circle Divers house reef, 1.05 km from Napoleon Reef and 1.5 km from the Islands, with Mashraba 3 km further south. That is the town's own shore-diving stretch - fringing reef, sand and seagrass, entries straight off the promenade, and the house reefs of several dive centres. Dahab is the one place in Egypt where essentially every dive can be done from the beach, so whatever this entry names, it is a shore dive.
The occurrence record for the position backs that reading and is a useful check on it. It is not a wall or a pinnacle signature at all - it is intertidal and shallow-lagoon: blotched nerite snails, ghost crabs, land hermit crabs, wedge clams, giant clams including Tridacna squamosina, fire corals, Michel's ghost-goby, network pipefish and cone shells, with twoband anemonefish, Klunzinger's wrasse, masked and star pufferfish, bluespotted ribbontail ray, grey and undulated morays and lionfish over them. Counts are low across the board. Read together, that is a shallow shore-and-seagrass position in the bay, which is exactly what its neighbours are. Until we can attach a dive-centre description to the name, that is all this page should claim.
- Name not corroborated by any independent dive-centre source we could find
- Coordinates fall at the southern end of Dahab bay, near Swiss Inn Beach, Napoleon Reef and the Islands
- Occurrence data reads as shallow shore and seagrass, not wall or pinnacle
- No sourced depth, visibility, current or certification figure - all left blank
Please note before you go
- The site is unverified: we have no sourced depth profile, current or entry description for it, so plan it locally rather than from this page
- The Dahab bay shore entries generally cross a reef table that is difficult and damaging at low water
Access & rules
Operator
You can reach the site independently.
Conditions
Visibilitynot sourced
Currentnot sourced
Surgenot sourced
WaterSalt water
Depth rangenot sourced
Environmentreef
Coralhealthy
Crowdsnot sourced
On current: Nothing recorded. We found no dive-centre or guide source that describes a site called Lands End at these coordinates, so there is no depth, visibility, current or certification figure we are willing to publish. The one directory description in circulation places the name about 150 m south of the Lighthouse, some 3 km north of this position, and that directory is the upstream of our own catalogue rather than an independent source. Treat every number on this page as deliberately absent.
Dives & underwater footage
Questions & answers
Is Lands End a real dive site?
We cannot confirm it. The name does not appear in the site lists published by the Dahab dive centres we checked, and the only description in circulation is on the dive-spot directory that our own catalogue is derived from - so it is not independent evidence. It also places the name about 3 km north of the coordinates this record carries. Something is at this position; the name may simply be wrong.
Where exactly is it?
At 28.4746 N, 34.4977 E, at the southern end of Dahab bay. Our own catalogue puts the Swiss Inn Beach entry 620 m away, the Circle Divers house reef 760 m, Napoleon Reef 1.05 km and the Islands 1.5 km, with Mashraba about 3 km south. That is the town's shore-diving stretch.
How deep is it and what certification do I need?
We do not know and we are not going to guess. No source we found describes a depth profile, a current, an entry or a certification requirement for this name at this position, so every one of those fields is deliberately empty. Ask a Dahab centre before you plan a dive on it.
Do I need a boat?
Almost certainly not. Dahab is the one place in Egypt where effectively all the diving is done from the beach, and this position is on the town shoreline itself rather than offshore. The neighbouring entries in our catalogue are all shore dives.
What will I see there?
The occurrence record for this position is a shallow-water and seagrass one rather than a reef-wall one: blotched nerite snails, ghost crabs, land hermit crabs, giant clams including Tridacna squamosina, fire corals, Michel's ghost-goby, network pipefish and cone shells, with twoband anemonefish, Klunzinger's wrasse, masked and star pufferfish, bluespotted ribbontail ray, grey and undulated morays and lionfish over them. Counts are low, which is what a lightly surveyed position looks like.
Life recorded at Lands End, Dahab
60 species within 1.5 km · OBISTaeniura lymmarare · 3 recordsGymnothorax javanicusrare · 1 records
Nerita albicillaoccasional · 7 records
Pleurosicya michelioccasional · 6 records
Tridacna maximaoccasional · 5 records
Amphiprion bicinctusoccasional · 5 records
All 60 species recorded in this area
| Species | How often | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Nerita albicilla | occasional | 7 |
| Pleurosicya micheli | occasional | 6 |
| Tridacna maxima | occasional | 5 |
| Amphiprion bicinctus | occasional | 5 |
| Thalassoma rueppellii | occasional | 5 |
| Arothron diadematus | rare | 4 |
| Asaphis violascens | rare | 3 |
| Millepora exaesa | rare | 3 |
| Arothron stellatus | rare | 3 |
| Corythoichthys flavofasciatus | rare | 3 |
| Ocypode saratan | rare | 3 |
| Pterois miles | rare | 3 |
| Tridacna squamosina | rare | 3 |
| Gymnothorax griseus | rare | 3 |
| Pomacentrus sulfureus | rare | 3 |
| Taeniura lymma | rare | 3 |
| Millepora dichotoma | rare | 2 |
| Dascyllus abudafur | rare | 2 |
| Paracirrhites forsteri | rare | 2 |
| Conus parvatus | rare | 2 |
| Pleurosicya prognatha | rare | 2 |
| Pseudanthias squamipinnis | rare | 2 |
| Coenobita scaevola | rare | 2 |
| Conus flavidus | rare | 2 |
| Ischnochiton yerburyi | rare | 2 |
| Ostracion cubicum | rare | 2 |
| Cyclichthys spilostylus | rare | 2 |
| Abudefduf vaigiensis | rare | 2 |
| Chaetodon lineolatus | rare | 2 |
| Gymnothorax undulatus | rare | 2 |
| Heniochus intermedius | rare | 2 |
| Heterocentrotus mamillatus | rare | 2 |
| Arothron hispidus | rare | 2 |
| Sphyraena jello | rare | 1 |
| Dunckerocampus multiannulatus | rare | 1 |
| Plotosus lineatus | rare | 1 |
| Grapsus granulosus | rare | 1 |
| Astropecten polyacanthus | rare | 1 |
| Bulla ampulla | rare | 1 |
| Conus taeniatus | rare | 1 |
| Conus textile | rare | 1 |
| Dardanus lagopodes | rare | 1 |
| Dascyllus trimaculatus | rare | 1 |
| Lethrinus mahsena | rare | 1 |
| Octopus cyanea | rare | 1 |
| Pearsonothuria graeffei | rare | 1 |
| Pedum spondyloideum | rare | 1 |
| Photoblepharon steinitzi | rare | 1 |
| Pygoplites diacanthus | rare | 1 |
| Scolopsis ghanam | rare | 1 |
| Synapta maculata | rare | 1 |
| Cephalopholis miniata | rare | 1 |
| Fistularia commersonii | rare | 1 |
| Myripristis murdjan | rare | 1 |
| Strigatella litterata | rare | 1 |
| Gymnothorax javanicus | rare | 1 |
| Millepora platyphylla | rare | 1 |
| Pinctada margaritifera | rare | 1 |
| Sargocentron caudimaculatum | rare | 1 |
| Abudefduf sexfasciatus | rare | 1 |
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SinaiSand, patchy seagrass and scattered coral blocks off a hotel beach in Lagoona. A training and night dive, not a reef.
Circle Divers Dahab House Reef0.8 km
SinaiA 14 m shore reef off the Jaz Dahabeya beach in Lagoona, with a hoop buoyancy park at 5 m, a small sculpture reef at 4 m and two resident feather-tail rays on the sand.
Napoleon Reef1.1 km
SinaiA detached Madrepora tower off the Dahab Laguna, dived from a boat because the reef juts into the current.
Islands1.5 km
SinaiA shallow coral maze south of Dahab: sand pools, valleys and lagoons, and almost nothing below 20 m.
Mashraba3.1 km
SinaiDahab's southern house reef: a walk-in seagrass and sand dive with a pinnacle at around 18 m and a deep swim-through behind it.
Fish and Friends3.2 km
SinaiOne of the walk-in entries on Dahab's town bay, worked north over coral blocks or south over seagrass and sunken sculptures.
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