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Southern Dahab > Sha`ab Khanzir


Eagle Rays are the prefered prey for many pelagic sharks





Travel Time: Boat trip: 1 hour/20 minutes
Description:

This drift dive starts by descending to a pinnacle perching on the corner of a drop off at 18 m surrounded by glass fish. Slightly deeper at 25 m a black coral is home to numerous hunting lion fish and the photographers favorite, a long nose hawk fish. Three connecting satellite reefs lead the diver away from the wall over the their tops at 20 m covered with soft and hard corals. Eagle rays and turtles can be seen in the blue near the reef while swarms of anthias dart in front of the diver. Khanzir being trigger fish in Arabic, this dive site is host to a large school of red tooth triggers that can be found near the satellite reefs and over the sandy plateau of table corals leading up to the shallows. In the sandy areas nudibranches and pipefish are abundant while rarer species, such as the leopard shark have been spotted here.



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