The Pools
The Pools is a dive site in Dahab, Egypt. Currents typically run at 0.6 km/h and reach 1 km/h on the strongest days. Water temperatures range from 22°C in February to 29°C in August. The typical daily tidal range is about 0.5 m. Species recorded in the area include Pyjama Slug, Tiger Cardinalfish, Tridacna squamosina, Variable Stromb and Indo-Pacific Sergeant Major.
Dive Conditions
🐠 Marine Life at This Dive Site
Species data from iNaturalist (CC BY-NC)
Data sources: currents and water temperature from Open-Meteo Marine (CC BY 4.0), hourly model values 2024. Tidal range is the median daily range of modelled sea level from Open-Meteo Marine, hourly values 2024. Species observations from iNaturalist, checked against the World Register of Marine Species.
Conditions at The Pools through the year
Sea surface temperature at the site coordinates, averaged per month from hourly model values for 2024. The water is warmest in August at about 29 °C and coolest in February at about 22 °C, a spread of 7.8 degrees across the year.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22.8 | 21.6 | 22.1 | 23.1 | 24.2 | 26.5 | 28.4 | 29.4 | 27.8 | 26.4 | 25.6 | 23.8 |
Ocean current at the site runs at a typical 0.6 km/h. In the strongest tenth of the hours modelled for 2024 it reaches 1.0 km/h, which is when entries are normally timed to slack water at the turn of the tide.
The tide moves the water level by a median 0.5 m over a day, and by up to 0.7 m on the largest days of the month. That range drives how much water is exchanged over the reef and when the current turns.
Offshore wave statistics are not shown for The Pools: within 10 km of the site there is land in the directions from which 100 % of the waves in the area arrive, so open-sea values would overstate the swell at the site itself.
Satellite habitat mapping places The Pools on an outer reef slope, over a seabed mapped as coral and algae.
How The Pools compares
These comparisons use only the measured values above, set against the 351 dive sites published on findadive.com. A percentage shows the share of other sites with a lower (or higher) value, so it reads the same way wherever the site is. The Pools sits with its mean water temperature in the bottom tenth and its coolest-month water temperature in the bottom tenth of all listed sites.
| Measure | This site | Compared with all sites | Regional median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean water temperature | 25.1 °C | cooler than 99 % of the other 350 sites | – |
| Water temperature in the coolest month | 21.6 °C | cooler than 99 % of the other 350 sites | – |
| Typical current | 0.6 km/h | weaker than 88 % of the other 350 sites | – |
| Current in the strongest 10 % of hours | 1.0 km/h | weaker than 97 % of the other 350 sites | – |
| Median daily tidal range | 0.5 m | smaller than 99 % of the other 350 sites | – |
Water temperature, current and tide from Open-Meteo Marine (CC BY 4.0), hourly model values for 2024 at 28.4363°, 34.4585°. Wave statistics from ERA5-Ocean via Open-Meteo Marine (contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2015–2024), daily maximum wave height on a 0.5° grid; land shelter tested against Natural Earth coastlines. Reef structure and seabed cover from the Allen Coral Atlas © 2018–2023 Allen Coral Atlas Partnership and Arizona State University (CC BY 4.0).
Marine life recorded at this site
Research-grade observations from iNaturalist within about 12 km of these coordinates.
