ABT Salalah

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What you'll see (9)

Red Sea ghost crabOcypode saratanseen 3× near here

Milk SharkRhizoprionodon acutusseen 2× near here

Bridled TriggerfishSufflamen fraenatumseen 2× near here

Bullia semiplicataseen 2× near here

Loggerhead Sea TurtleCaretta carettaseen 1× near here

HoundfishTylosurus crocodilusseen 1× near here

Tropical Leatherleaf SlugLaevicaulis alteseen 1× near here

Conus adenensisseen 1× near here

Crenate Swimming CrabThranita crenataseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

5,701km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest Mar · almost nobody dives it Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Sep.

From 161 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~26h 27m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightMuscat (MCT)~9h 48mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~14h 9mRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatABT Salalah~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 ABT Salalah on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Muscat

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Country: Oman
Marks: 17°0.525'N 54°9.782'E
Position: 17.0088, 54.1630
Note: Moved 1200 m off the OSM position, into the water

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.