Anyone here dived in Dahab?

[Deep]

I'm looking to go to Sharm in summer for some diving. I've been to Hurghada a few times since covid for diving but haven't been to Sharm in about 20 years.
Anyway, thought I might stay a few nights in Dahab and do some diving there as well. I know it has the Blue Hole but the full dive there is for proper technical divers, I am strictly recreational. There seems to be a shallow dive you can do there as well but I've been told by someone who dived there many years ago that it's nothing much.

So the question is, apart from the Blue Hole, is there any decent diving in Dahab? Whenever I google it only the Blue Hole seems to appear.

Thanks

[bakerstreet]

Don't under estimate how good the blue hole is, especially the entry which is called 'the bells'.

My wife was always a reluctant diver due to sea sickness and we rated the blue hole as one of our best dives ever.

There is also a dive called the three pools which we quite enjoyed.

Travelling between dive sites in beaten up old double cab pick ups wasn't fun though.

I did about 8 trips to Egypt over the years and all bar one were solely for diving.

[Bill]

Bells to Blue Hole is stand out fantastic IMO (and that of my brother who is vastly more experienced), it's 28m though so you need advanced open water. There are plenty of other good dives (IIRC another memorable one was called the Goldfish Bowl, possibly...)

[bakerstreet]

Bill said:

Bells to Blue Hole is stand out fantastic IMO (and that of my brother who is vastly more experienced), it's 28m though so you need advanced open water. There are plenty of other good dives (IIRC another memorable one was called the Goldfish Bowl, possibly...)

Unexpected bonus of the blue hole is seeing numerous free divers on the way up from the hole.

Think we were about 35m before we came up.

Seeing all the plaques of people who have died there is a a bit depressing especially the infamous guy who died whilst filming the dive and the video made onto YouTube too

[Deep]

Thanks.
So the Blue Hole is still worth diving even if sticking to recreational limits ie 30m? Me and my sons are Advanced Open Water

Cheers

Edited by Deep on Tuesday 3rd January 22:37