Egypt Red Sea - Habili Daisy (Wadi Lahami)

General benthic features

The pinnacle rises steeply into a shallow crown, its flanks and crest densely built — corymbose and staghorn Acropora, cauliflower pocilloporids, encrusting, and foliose plates, faviids, and small massives packed together over rock heavily encrusted with red and maroon coralline algae and sponge (e.g., Image 1).

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Coral cover

Coral cover is 22.6% ± 12.6 across 52 photographs, quoted verbatim from Mayfield, A.B. (2025) Environments 12:248 — Red Sea 2023-24 bleaching; CoralNet point annotation, Appendix A — a manual, diver-annotated CoralNet point count from Anderson's own published work, not a computer vision output and not recomputed here. This is the smallest photographic sample of any site in this Red Sea set, and the point-weighted value in the same appendix is identical to the mean at 22.6%, which happens only when the frames carry equal point counts.

Stressors

The site record reports 61.3% of coral tissue bleached at about 21.9°C-weeks DHW. The reef is well covered and heavily bleached at the same time. Wide-angles of the crest show white and pale-cream colonies distributed throughout a structurally intact framework, sitting against red coralline and maroon encrusting growth that hold saturated color in the same frames (e.g., Image 3, Image 4).

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Fish and other fauna

Chromis and anthias hang off it in dense clouds against deep blue, and a diver's fins appear at the edge of one wide-angle for scale (e.g., Image 2).

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Comparisons with other data

No independent survey was made at this exact site; the nearest ones are listed in the table below.

Dive record

A late-afternoon dive on 22 September 2024 with Red Sea Diving Safari on another Wadi Lahami habili — a submerged pinnacle rising from deeper water.

Other notes

See flags.