• Egypt
  • Dahab : Abu Helal

Scuba Diving in Abu Helal

Description
Very beautiful and least dived sites. The best dive will take you to 38m towards a small canyon. Rolling hills of coral, abundant in sea life. Trigger fish, potato grouper, rays and barracuda.

Attention

Entry and exit  must be done in high tide and calm conditions. 

Activities Photography , Orientation , Night dive , Marine biology
Dangers Current
Accessible Shore

Other Info

Hidden Canyon which is a system of canyons located in Abu Talha and Abu Helal area. In January 2009 Andrey Chistyakov and his Diving Team initiated a project aiming to map Hidden Canyon’s area.Hidden Canyon is a system of canyons and is also known as “Small Canyon” regarding the small crack in its’ southern part which was discovered many years ago first at depth of 30 meters. Anyway further it becomes deeper and bigger and goes to the north turning from the small crack to the about 1 kilometer long canyon formation.

Several teams were exploring the area like Tom Steiner (TDI IT) who found TJ Canyon, Paskal Bernabe and Sebastian Kister found cavern in northern part of the TJ Canyon. Anrey Chistiakov started the exploration of the canyons in 2005. With his student Olga Generozova they found a deep cavern in southern part of the Hidden Canyon. 

In September 2008 Andrey Chistiakov and Dmitriy Podolskiy who already took part in projects of Andrey and completed several deep trimix programs with Andrey, explored the northern part of the canyon system with scooters. They found out that TJ canyon and northern cracks are the parts of a single canyon system - the Hidden Canyon. During a series of deep dives Andrey Chistiakov and Anna Kozlova later approved that idea. All dives were conducted with DPVs (SS and Salvo) that enabled explorations of the remote areas.

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