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Abu Haschish
Abu Haschish is the island at the centre of a wide bay 90 minutes south of Hurghada. This island was once used as drop-off point for smugglers bringing hash into the country. A tongue of reef extends about 1 km south of the island. The dive site is at its southernmost tip. There is a shelf between 15 and 22 m outside, and beyond that a step, but fairly bare, drop-off, usually with superb visibility. Inside the tongue of reef is a scattering of long ergs.
Sea conditions
Rough sea often makes this site inaccessible from Hurghada although the site itself is well protected. Current is mainly north to south and strongest along the drop-off.
Dive plan
Leave the lagoon through an obvious channel filled with table corals, cross the shelf to the drop-off and follow along the inside of the shelf and finish the dive back in the lagoon amongst the ergs.
Marine Life
Along the drop-off pelagic such as jacks, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, whitetips and, now and then, hammerheads and feathertail rays. On the shelf, turtles, bluespoted rays, Spanish dancers, morays, lunartail and leopard groupers. In the lagoon, squid and baby barracuda schools.
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