The first dive of our Red Sea trip was a “check dive” at a horseshoe shaped fringing reef called Sha’ab El Erg. The part of the reef that we dived on was called Poseidon’s Garden, and featured a large piece of reef, some smaller pinnacles, and a very fetching coral garden that stretched out from the edge of the reef. The purpose of the dive, which was done on air, was to sort out our buoyancy in the warm, very salty water of the Red Sea. I was wearing my Trilastic 8-6-5 (overkill, I know, but I don’t have a thinner wetsuit!) and had to add weight.
The reef is north of Hurghada and its shape makes it an extremely sheltered environment for a first dive off a liveaboard.
Dive date: 19 October 2013
Air temperature: 26 degrees
Water temperature: 26 degrees
Maximum depth: 14.8 metres
Visibility: 30 metres
Dive duration: 46 minutes
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