My Underwater Detective Story: Learning to Identify Red Sea Fish
by Maria Ordovas-Montanes I saw a fish with a shrew-like snout out of the corner of my mask. I turned to get a closer look but it darted away behind…
Category: Conservation and Ecology
Macro vs Big Animals: Two Completely Different Ways to See the Ocean
After more than 2,000 dives behind me, I can admit it: I’m a macro diver. Not because sharks and large pelagic life aren’t impressive. They are. But there are only…
Scuba Seekers Impact Bulletin
By Rasaalika Singhania When I first arrived at Scuba Seekers, I was thrilled to find that the dive centre offered weekly cleanup dives at Mashraba, Scuba Seekers’ house reef. Week-on-week,…
Seeing the Reef Through Fresh Eyes: How Fish ID Changes How Divers Perceive the Reef
by Christina Ewerhardy When I first arrived in Dahab and began diving in the Red Sea, I was a freshly graduated biologist with just 20 dives under my belt and…
Mapping the Unseen: Dahab Sea Slug Census 2026
A citizen science project to document nudibranch diversity in Dahab Every year around March, something strange and magical happens in Dahab. While much of the diving world flocks to warmer…
10 Must-See Fish in Dahab
by Andrey Ryanskiy Dahab has been my home base for diving for many years, and one thing I love about it is how much marine life you can find almost…
Melibe Colemani in Dahab: the Ghost Nudibranch Goes West
By Irina Khlopunova We are Andrey and Irina – passionate divers, underwater photographers, and citizen scientists. Much of our free time goes into documenting marine life of the Red Sea…
Ghost Diving Egypt
Ghost fishing is when fishing gear breaks free, is abandoned or dumped. These nets, lines and pots are left to drift in the oceans. They continue to ‘fish’ even though we can’t recover what they catch, and they will catch anything.