Saturday, January 10, 2009

The Blue Hole, a famous deadman's divesite.

Once or twice a year I love to go scuba diving and this year we chose for beautiful Dahab, a bedoein oasis on the south of the Sinai-desert.

Dahab has been famous for it's beautiful divesites (most are right on the shore) for many years. People all over the world heard about the divesites Blue Hole and The Canyon.



The Blue hole is a beautiful reef with a large hole in the middle, that descends till about 130 meters/426 feet! A spectacular divesite, with a beautiful coral wall on the outside of the reef, pelagics in the blue on the other site, just a perfect place...

Apparently there is, besides the normal crossing place from the outside to the inside of the Hole at 7 meter/23 feet, also an arch at about 58 meters/190 feet, descending deeper to the outside of the reef. The perfect challenge for those that like to push limits. Unfortunately fatal for some. When you walk to the entry of the divesite next to the Blue Hole, named The Canyon, take a good look at all the memorial stones next to the divesite that warn you... Happy diving!