Shaab Dahara

Shaab Dahara lies at the southeast corner of a tiny sand island of the same name, washed to the north and west by lagoons of turquoise water, and its sandy bottom gives way to a garden of hard corals. Because of its size, the reef offers shelter from the wind and waves, and liveaboards regularly stay overnight at the moorings on the south side; that is why most dives there take place at night, directly below the moorings. Near the second mooring buoy lie the badly damaged remains of the liveaboard Shereen, which ran aground on the reef in November 2005 and rests on the reef wall, surrounded by debris. Lionfish, flounders and scorpionfish hide among the wreckage of the Shereen and the coral rocks, and there is a lot of fire coral beneath the moorings.