Sandy Beach Dive Academy

Explore this dive site, its conditions, marine life and nearby diving.

Sharm Rock is located offshore, approximately 15 minutes South of the Meridian Fujairah with a depth of 10 - 22 meters. This dive site is also known as “3 Rocks Pinnacles” or “3 Sisters” because of its three small outcrops of rocks that peek above the surface.

5-13m Classed as one of our local dive sites 3 rocks is literally on the doorstep and a great last dive of the day or as a night dive. The site is made of three large pinnacles close together with a crack running along the top and is around 150m long and 100m wide. There is also a 4th rock but we do not dive this on a regular dive plan, but the more experienced divers would go here on occasions. The site will nearly always deliver Turtles and Cuttle Fish and very friendly Jaw Fish. The site is full of shoaling fish and even has shoals of Banner Fish, Parrot Fish and Puffers.

Originally known as Gray Swift 2, this boat was built in the USA by Halter Marine and shipped to Dubai in the early 70s. She began her service in Ras al-Khaimah and was moved to Dubai in 1991 and renamed Inch Cape 1.

30m 5 minutes from the diving centre, this site is normally our first site of the day (if Advanced) or it is used on the night dive. Like Inchcape 2, Inch 1 was donated to us and sunk in 2001, she now lays on a sand bottom in 30m. The wheelhouse has also been ripped off during the cyclone and moved the wreck 50m!. The wreck is a huge ball of marine life, so much in fact you have to move them away in order to see the wreck. The wreck has two resident Honeycomb Moray eels Fred and Wilma, 2 Seahorses and in the summer months 4 Frog Fish. This site is also a regular Tec training site for us on rebreathers or Sidemount.

5-15m Turn left of the beach, head North for 20 min and then you will see Dibba Rock sticking out of the sea. Under the surface lies a pinnacle stretching 200m and this is what we will be following on the dive. The first part of the pinnacle will be a steep wall that takes you down to the deepest part of the site. On top you will see tropical marine life and maybe the shoal of Devil Rays. The second part of the dive around the island is a gentler sloping wall ending into a wall of mountain corals. Here you will see Black Tips, Turtles and many tropical fish species and is a great place to do a safety stop.