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title: Tobia arbaa
type: Reef dive site
location: Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
coordinates: 26.808399200439453, 33.995399475097656
max_depth_m: 12
published: 2023-11-25T21:59:56.557Z
updated: 2026-09-06T15:02:02.102Z
tags: Tobia arbaa, Reef, Red Sea, Dive site, Diving
url: https://redseacreatures.com/diving/dive-sites/tobia-arbaa
---

# Tobia arbaa

## Quick facts

- **Type:** Reef
- **Location:** Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
- **Coordinates:** 26.808399200439453, 33.995399475097656
- **Max depth:** 12 m
- **Depth notes:** 12m
- **Level:** All levels

## Overview

Tobia Arbaa means four, and there are seven, which is why the site is also called the Seven Pinnacles. The ergs are unusually tall and narrow for this coast, standing on sand at 12 m in a tight group like a stand of sawn-off tree trunks, and their overhangs rather than their tops are what hold the life.

## Location

Just inside the headland of Ras Abu Soma, northeast of Safaga.

## Conditions

In the lee of the headland, so effectively free of waves and current.

## Dive plan

Navigation is not a concern here: each erg stands within sight of the next, and the group can be worked in any order. The overhangs and the bases repay slow diving far more than the tops do.

## What to see

Anthias and basslets cover the soft coral under the overhangs. Lionfish are present in numbers, along with pufferfish, napoleon wrasse and barracuda, and a large potato cod turns up occasionally. Spiny devilfish lie on the open sand between the ergs, crossing it on modified fin rays rather than swimming.

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