---
title: Erg Sabina
type: Reef dive site
location: Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
coordinates: 27.21649932861328, 33.95439910888672
max_depth_m: 12
published: 2023-11-25T21:59:56.557Z
updated: 2026-09-06T15:02:21.405Z
tags: Erg Sabina, Reef, Red Sea, Dive site, Diving
url: https://redseacreatures.com/diving/dive-sites/erg-sabrina
---

# Erg Sabina

## Quick facts

- **Type:** Reef
- **Location:** Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
- **Coordinates:** 27.21649932861328, 33.95439910888672
- **Max depth:** 12 m
- **Depth notes:** 10-12m
- **Level:** Advanced

## Good to know

- Suitable for beginners
- Best for advanced divers
- Drift dive
- Great for macro photography
- Pinnacles

## 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.

## Location

East of Big Giftun, about 10.8 km east of Hurghada marina and around 90 minutes by boat.

## Conditions

Not fully sheltered from wind, but within reach of most divers. The bottleneck shape of the Giftun Strait means strong current is always possible.

## 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.

## Species recorded here (4)

- Common Lionfish (*Pterois miles*)
- Crocodilefish (*Papilloculiceps longiceps*)
- Fantail Stingray (*Pastinachus sephen*)
- Napoleon Wrasse (*Cheilinus undulatus*)

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*Source: [Red Sea Creatures](https://redseacreatures.com/diving/dive-sites/erg-sabrina)*
*Updated: September 6, 2026*