Overview
Erg Sabina is a compact reef standing on flat sand at 10 to 12 m, with coral blocks and table corals scattered around its base. It sits in the Giftun Strait, and the narrowing of that channel governs the diving: water forced through it can run hard, and the fish gather on the north face where they can hold station in the flow. It shares a mooring with Shaab Sabina: the boat does not move between the two, and the names describe which way the group turns off the line.
Dive plan
Small as the reef is, the north face is where the time goes. Large brain corals next to the main reef give schooling fish something to sit behind, and they hang there facing into the current. Around 50 m further north a smaller erg is covered in soft coral and packed with glassfish. On the way out and back, the undersides of the table corals and coral blocks are worth checking.
What to see
Turtles, eagle rays, fantail stingrays and napoleon wrasse all pass through, as they do along this whole stretch of the strait. Glassfish and silversides hold on the erg and pull jacks, lionfish, scorpionfish and groupers in behind them. Crocodilefish lie on the open sand, matched to it closely enough that they are usually found by their outline rather than their color.
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