Abu Telha
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About this site
Abu Telha is a shore dive in Dahab, Sinai, less often dived than most of the town's sites because of its entry. The entry goes straight to a coral garden that slopes gradually down to 30 metres. You loop south and shallow up on the way back to the exit, and the best corals lie at 5 to 20 metres.
The entrance is through a small lagoon, and the dive is only possible at high tide, with slack water or no surf. It can be dived left, even as a drift towards Abu Helal, or right. Entry can be slippery and the reef has many holes of different depths.
The site is famous for large schools of red-toothed triggerfish, and it is the only shore site where juvenile red-tooth triggerfish are found, sometimes in great numbers. A deep canyon here is for technically trained divers only, and the Little Canyon at 40 metres has chambers dropping to 105 metres for trimix divers.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Eagle rayEagle rayReported here · unconfirmed
BarracudaBarracudaConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
NudibranchNudibranchReported here · unconfirmed
TriggerfishTriggerfishConfirmed present · 4 independent sources
StonefishStonefishReported here · unconfirmed
Sulfur DamselPomacentrus sulfureusReported here · unconfirmed
Indian LionfishPterois milesReported here · unconfirmed
Indo-Pacific Sergeant MajorAbudefduf vaigiensisReported here · unconfirmed
Purple TangZebrasoma xanthurumReported here · unconfirmed
Klunzinger's WrasseThalassoma rueppelliiReported here · unconfirmed
Small Giant ClamTridacna maximaReported here · unconfirmed
Red Sea Raccoon ButterflyfishChaetodon fasciatusReported here · unconfirmed
Red Sea BannerfishHeniochus intermediusReported here · unconfirmed
Red Sea AnemonefishAmphiprion bicinctusReported here · unconfirmed
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