Sha ab Ghaza
26.6194°N 34.0132°E · reef
Sha’ab Ghaza is an offshore reef in the Safaga area of the Red Sea, accessible by boat from Safaga. “Sha’ab” is the Arabic term for a reef or shoal, and this site falls in the productive offshore reef field south of Safaga Island.
Overview
The coordinates (lat 26.62, lon 34.01) place this site in the offshore Safaga reef system, a zone well documented for its diverse reefs offering wall diving, drift diving, and coral garden exploration. The name Sha’ab Ghaza suggests a named shoal or reef system known to local operators.
No specific source has been located documenting “Sha’ab Ghaza” as a named dive site in widely available English-language dive guides for the Safaga area. Safaga’s offshore reefs in this zone typically feature walls dropping to hundreds of metres, hard coral formations including large brain corals and table acroporas, and a productive mid-water pelagic community.
Site Information
- Location: Safaga offshore reef field, Red Sea
- Entry Type: Boat dive
- Site Type: Reef
- Maximum Depth: 25 meters
No site-specific dive source was found for this entry at these coordinates. Description based on Safaga regional diving characteristics. redsea-diving.com — Safaga. Last updated 2026-05-17.
Sea-surface temperature and wave height from Open-Meteo Marine (ERA5 reanalysis, monthly averages).
256 verified species observations (245 species) logged within ~11 km of this site between 1936 and 2016, from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
- Tursiops aduncus · Indian ocean bottlenose dolphin
- Stenella longirostris · Spinner dolphin
- Tursiops · Bottlenose dolphins
- Pseudorca crassidens · False killer whale
- Nerita sanguinolenta
- Littoraria scabra
- Montipora gracilis
- Lensia subtiloides
- Alveopora daedalea
- Lobophyllia hemprichii
- Tetrachthamalus
- Chthamalus
Scientific survey records skew toward sampled taxa (molluscs, corals) and do not reflect what you are guaranteed to see on a dive.
Source: OBIS (obis.org), aggregated Darwin Core occurrence records.
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