Marsa Alam & Port Ghalib · Egypt · Wall · Pinnacle · Reef
Three Corners Sea Beach Resort House Reef
A house-reef wall from 12 to 30 m with little or no current
Area photo: David Sanford · CC BY-SA 3.0
The house reef of the Three Corners Sea Beach Resort, north of Port Ghalib, is a shore dive on a main reef that falls from 12 to 30 metres and then eases off into a slope broken by several pinnacles. Current is little or absent, so it is a straightforward wall dive whose main variable is whether the sea state allows the entry and exit.
Also known as Three Corners House Reef.
Where it is and how deep
25.6089° N, 34.6019° EPublished position for this site.
The dive
The top of the main reef sits at about 12 metres, and from there it falls to 30. Get down to the lip, pick a depth on the wall that suits your no-stop plan and hold it: the face is the dive, and with little or no current to push you along it you can work slowly in either direction and turn on gas rather than on the sea.
Below the drop the reef does not end but slowly degrades into a slope with several pinnacles standing off it. Those pinnacles are the reason to touch 30 metres briefly, but they are also the deepest and shortest part of the profile, so visit them early and spend the rest of the dive climbing the wall back to the shallows, finishing at whichever exit the day's sea conditions allow.
Marine life and season
The sources we used don't single out particular species here.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime |
Season follows Marsa Alam & Port Ghalib: Diving runs all year; early autumn has the warmest sea without the August crowds.
Know before you go
- The entry and exit change with sea conditions. Get the day's exit point from the dive centre before you go in, and do not assume the way in is the way out.
Questions divers ask
How deep is the Three Corners house reef?+
The main reef falls from 12 to 30 metres and then degrades into a slope with several pinnacles. Most of the dive is on the wall between those two depths.
Sources
More dive sites in Marsa Alam & Port Ghalib
Reef
Shallow reef to 15-20 m with pinnacles off the southeast
Two resident dugongs graze the seagrass in a bay you wade into
Coral garden
Coral garden to 25 m, a quarter of an hour south of the marina
Best chances of oceanic whitetips run from October to December.
Reef
A horseshoe of reef enclosing a pool of coral gardens
Wall
Starts at a 27 m pinnacle by the drop-off, then drifts shallow
Reef
Canyons cut into a reef table at only 8-10 m
Two resident dugongs grazing a shallow seagrass meadow.
Similar dives elsewhere
Two soft-coral pinnacles wrapped in glassfish and silversides
Two plateaus on the Red Sea's only atoll, hammerheads at 45 m
A coral tower that opens into a cave at 28 m
A chimney at the northeast corner of the erg