Live-aboard  

This is the ultimate diving vacation: pure sunshine, salt water and diving. This is the place where you do not have to think about anything else than diving, eating and sleeping. The biggest challenge will be how to describe and have place for everything you saw in your logbook.

We arrange short distance safaris (3 days, 2 nights) with a smaller boat for groups of 7 persons or more and long distance safaris (6 to 14 days, 5 to 13 nights) with a bigger boat for groups of 10 persons of more.

But even if you are on your own or with a friend, do not hesitate contact us! Tell us what kind of safari you are interested in and we will tell you when there is one and try to arrange room on the boat for you.

The price for diving safari on a live-aboard boat includes tanks and weights, a plentiful breakfast, dinner and cola or water with the food. The boat crew sells lunch and other drinks.

Here are some examples of what kind of live-aboard safaris we can organize for you.

Live-aboard to Thistlegorm, 3 days

Coral reefs or the shipwrecks in Abu Nuhas on the way to the Thistlegorm, one day at the world famous wreck and last day dives at marvelous reefs far away from the crowds on our way back to Hurghada.   

Live-aboard to Ras Mohammed, 6 days or more

See the world famous Ras Mohammed National Park. See fabulous coral and coral fishes. Here you find the most, starting from the tiny blennies in their holes to large napoleons and schooling hammerheads. On the way from and back to Hurghada, you will have the chance to dive Thistlegorm and Abu Nuhas.  

Live-aboard to Safaga, 3 days 

South of Hurghada you find coral reefs you cannot reach with the daytrip diving boats. Beautiful reefs and coral gardens with less timid marine life. If you are lucky, you will have the chance to play with dolphins, see turtles and maybe get a glance of a shark or a barracuda

Elphinstone and the Brothers, 6 days or more

The Brothers are a pair of tiny islands, the exposed tips of two massive reef pillars that rise from the abyssal depths. They are the only significant reefs in the area, and as such act as a magnet for any pelagic and reef fishes. Washed as they are by the full force of open-sea currents, they support an incredible dense and diverse coral population, with almost overwhelmingly profuse soft coral growth on all sides.

Elphinstone is a long, finger-like reef that runs from north to south in the open Red Sea. Steep walls drop to the depths on the reef’s east and west sides, reaching 70m (230ft) or more, while the north and south ends of the reef are marked by submerged plateau. The northern plateau is very shallow, offering some superb snorkeling possibilities. The southern plateau is much deeper, with a drop-off at 30m (100ft) leading down to the depths.

Coral coverage is dense and magnificent, with a full range of hard and soft corals on all sides. The east side in particular has some beautiful soft coral growth.

A massive number of reef species lends still more color to the already dazzling walls, with a ready supply of big solitary and schooling pelagics to observe. One great hammerhead seems to be a permanent resident.

This is an endlessly fascinating site, worth diving any number of times, both by snorkellers and by the more advanced diver.

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This is where you want to dive!

Deep south, 6 days or more

This is every divers wet dream! We will take you by bus to Marsa Alam and from there by live-aboard close to the Sudanese boarder.

Here, in the Deep South, you find diving sites like St. John’s reef, Zabargad and Rocky Island. Pure paradise according to most dive guides. This is for example how Guy Buckles describes the Deep South in the Buckles Guy. Dive Guide the Red Sea, 1999. New Holland Publisehers (UK) Ltd" Zabargad and Rocky Island, almost a holy grail of Egyptian offshore diving with their  sheer walls and coral gardens.  But there are hundreds of lesser-known reefs here that far surpass the best of the northern Red Sea, and they form part of the thrill of exploring the Deep South's unknown reefs and seeing sights that few divers will ever see."

Marine Life  

The deep south has always had a reputation for sharks, but big schools of snapper, surgeons, bizarre longnosed unicorns and a host of others are a feature on most reefs, and the schooling predators such as barracuda and trevally are so common here as to be quite unremarkable.

On the reef, the colorful profusion of lively reef fishes almost defies description.  Giant grouper swim head to tail with huge Napoleon wrasse, blue triggerfish appear in their hundreds and angelfish of every conceivable type play tag with butterflyfish and damsels.  Elegant lionfish, prehistoric scorpionfish and eels as thick as telephone poles abound.The Reefs of the Deep South are brimming with vibrant coral growth, with a density and pristine quality unseen in the north.  Waving fields of soft corals or huge, leafy masses of plate coral, Hard corals that form tables or chumps, some flat, some with fingerlike or bigger branches. Table and Elkhorn corals are Acroporias tables big enough for a board meeting, giant bommies and delicate, lacy seafans or just a few of the delights of the deep south.

The live-aboard boats

The live-aboard diving safari start with transfer from your hotel or the airport to the boat. The boat for safaris north and south of Hurghada leave from Hurghada, the safaris for Deep South leave from Marsa Alam or El Quseir, depending on your destination.

The price include unlimited dives, tanks, weights and a dive-guide. You will get breakfast and dinner, water or cola with the food and tea or coffee. (You will get breakfast and dinner, and cola or water with this.)  The crew will sell lunch, extra water, soft drinks and beer.

Lotus, live-aboard for short-range diving safaris  

  • Length: 24 m

  • Width: 5,5 m

  • Engines: 2 engines, 230 hp each

  • Generator:  30 kW

  • Compressor: Bauer

  • Cabins: 9 double, 1 for four persons

  • Radio VHF and GPS

  • Zodiac for 8 persons, 20 hp engine 

  •  Saloon with TV, video and stereo,  sundeck equipment area and diving platform.

  • Freshwater tank: 9 m3

  • Bathrooms and toilettes: 2

  • Air-condition: coming soon!  

Spring land, live-aboard for long-range diving safaris

  • Length: 32 m

  •  Width: 7 m

  •  Engines: 2 engines, 500 hp each

  •  Generator: 2 generators for 28 kW

  •  Compressor: Bauer, 240 l per minute

  •  Double cabins: 12. 8 with ensuite bathrooms.

  •  Saloon with TV, video and stereo.

  •  Radio VHF and GPS

  •  Zodiac with 25 horsepower engine

  •  Saloon for 28 persons, sundeck, equipment area and diving platform.

  •  Freshwater tank: 12 m3

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