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Getting there
Not answerable. The stored position is in open water and does not correspond to a reef anyone runs trips to. Sataya is reached by boat from Hamata; Daedalus is reached by liveaboard from Port Ghalib. See those entries.
Satoya, Ägypten
Egypt
Satoya, Ägypten
A duplicate catalogue entry for Sataya whose stored position lands in open ocean; it should not be treated as a dive site in its own right.
The dive
This record does not describe a dive site we can stand behind, and we would rather say so than invent a page for it.
The name is a German-language spelling of Sataya, the Fury Shoals reef known as the Dolphin House. The coordinates on this record, 24.8101 N / 35.7325 E, do not point there. They fall in open water about 18 km south-west of Daedalus Reef and roughly 72 km north of the real Sataya, which PADI and other operators place at about 24.17 N / 35.67-35.70 E near Hamata. The record's destination field says 'Daedalus Reef', and that label almost certainly came from the wrong coordinate rather than from anything anyone dived — Daedalus itself is at 24.92 N / 35.86 E, about 18 km away, and its own record already exists in this catalogue.
Two other things support reading this as a bad coordinate rather than an undocumented reef. Our OBIS occurrence query returned nothing at all for this position, which is what open ocean looks like, whereas the real Sataya record is full of spinner dolphin and reef fish. And no dive guide, operator or liveaboard itinerary we searched describes any named site between Daedalus and the coast at this position.
If you were looking for the dolphin reef, use the Sataya entry in the Hamata destination. If you were looking for the offshore lighthouse reef, use the Daedalus Reef entry. This record is left deliberately empty rather than filled with figures borrowed from either of them.
Please note before you go
- Data quality: the stored coordinates place this record in open ocean roughly 18 km from the nearest charted reef. Do not navigate to them and do not use them to plan a dive
Access & rules
Conditions
Visibilitynot sourced
Currentnot sourced
Surgenot sourced
WaterSalt water
Depth rangenot sourced
Environmentnot sourced
Coralnot sourced
Crowdsnot sourced
On current: Deliberately unset. Any conditions figure written here would have to be copied from either Sataya or Daedalus, and we do not know which site this record was meant to be — so copying either would be a guess presented as a fact.
Questions & answers
What dive site is this?
We cannot say with confidence, and that is the honest answer. The name is a German spelling of Sataya, the Fury Shoals dolphin reef, but the coordinates stored on this record fall in open ocean about 18 km south-west of Daedalus Reef and around 72 km north of the real Sataya. Use the Sataya or Daedalus Reef entries instead.
Why is it listed under Daedalus Reef?
Almost certainly because the destination was assigned from the coordinate rather than from any dive report. Daedalus is the nearest named site to the stored position, about 18 km away, and it already has its own entry in this catalogue at 24.92 N / 35.86 E.
Is there really a reef at these coordinates?
Nothing we could find. No dive guide, operator or liveaboard itinerary we searched names a site between Daedalus and the coast at this position, and our occurrence-data query returned no species records at all here — which is what open water looks like, in contrast to the real Sataya record, which is full of spinner dolphin and reef fish.
Where is the real Sataya?
About 30 km off the coast near Hamata in the Fury Shoals, at roughly 24.17 N / 35.67-35.70 E — around 2 h by day boat from Hamata port or 45 minutes by speedboat from Wadi Lahami. It is the reef with the shallow lagoon that spinner dolphins use as a daytime resting area.
Can I log a dive against this entry?
You can, but you probably should not. Anything logged here will carry a position in open ocean and a destination that does not match the site. If you dived the dolphin reef, log it against Sataya in Hamata; if you dived the offshore lighthouse reef, log it against Daedalus Reef.
Life recorded at Satoya, Ägypten
3 species within 8.94 km · OBISSphyrna lewinirare · 3 records
Plectropomus marisrubrirare · 1 records
Sargocentron caudimaculatumrare · 1 records
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