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Join a liveaboard safari
diving trip for some world class diving in the Red Sea
With a rich marine life and a great variety of dives - including wrecks, walls and drifts
- the Red Sea is a superb
liveaboard safari diving destination for all kind of divers and all year around.
We arrange both one week liveaboard trips and 3 day mini safaris for groups of
8 to 20 divers.
Individual bookings are welcome on scheduled trips.
All dive sites mentioned
in the routs below are examples of what can be done. They
are dived when the weather conditions are right and the experience of the divers
suite the site. We want everybody to be both happy and
safe.
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The North
The North liveaboard
routs offers a variety of reef and wrecks that
is suitable for all levels of divers.
The
classic North Cruise
North of Hurghada
you find an unbeatable mix of beautiful reefs
and world class wreck dives. This trip is
a must for keen underwater photographers.
Highlights during this
trip include Shaab El Erg, with beautiful
hard coral and dolphins. A little bit more
north, you find Siyul with nice corals and
easy diving.
Abu Nuhas has four well-known
wrecks in diver friendly depths, all offering
nice dives and plenty of fish life. Gubal
Island offers good anchoring for the night.
The wrecked Barge offers a shallow and memorable
night dive with many moray eels.
The next morning we head
across the straits of Gubal to visit the world
famous SS Thistlegorm.
Thistlegorm was
sunk in 1941 in the area of Shaab Ali.
She was packed with supplies destined
for the British Fifth Army. Armored Bren-Gun
Carriers, BSA Motorcycles, jeeps, trucks,
airplane parts, rifles, radio equipment and
a plentiful supply of Wellington boots can
all be seen during your dive.
After the Thistlegorm
we will head for Ras Mohamed. The peninsula
separates the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of
Aqaba. Currents flow out of both gulfs and
bathe Ras Mohamed in rich nutrients, which
gives a plentiful and varied marine life.
At Shark Reef you will see shoals of fish
- groupers, barracudas, batfish, Napoleons,
blue spotted stingrays and crocodile fish.
Here is also one of the most amusing dive
sites during the week, a wreck that sank with
a load of bathtubs and toilets. Check out
the groupers hanging around the toilet mountain
at the bottom of the sea.
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The
wreck trip
If you are certified Advanced and
have at least 30 logged dives, you can join
this one week wreck feast.
We start from Hurghada and just outside the
harbor is El Mina, an Egyptian mine sweeper
sank during the 6 day war with Israel. Close
to El Mina is Excalibur, a small diving boat.
After this we continue to the Carnatic, Chrisoula
K and Giannis D at Abu Nuhas. Gubal Island
offers even a wreck as a night dive, the Barge.
We will also visit the Ulysses that sunk in
1887 and the Rosalie Muller, an another World
War II wreck that sunk two days after the
Thistlegorm. At Shag Rock lies the Sarah
H, sunk in1881 and close to Shaab Ali Carina,
sunk in 1926. Oldest of the Red Sea wrecks
is the Dunraven, that sunk 1876 at Beacon
Rock in the Ras Mohamed National Park.
We will also visit the most famous wreck in
the Red Sea, the SS Thistlegorm.
In between the wrecks we will also see some
of the reefs in the Straits of Gubal, Gulf
of Suez and those to the north of Hurghada.
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The
Safaga area
Diving in the Safaga area offers a combination
of shallow reef dives and drop-offs. Here
is also the wrecked ferry Salem Express. Panorama
reef and Abu Kafan offers superb wall diving,
were you can see hammerheads on early morning
dives.
Other marine life in this area includes soft
and black corals, fans and huge gorgonians.
Jacks, turtles and barracudas are frequent
sighted, as are eagle rays.
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The South
A South diving safari offers
diving in the Marsa Alam area. The area is famous
for walls, coral gardens, beautiful wrecks and
caves. You will see stunning corals and an impressive
variety of fish. Currents and the fish attract
barracudas, snappers, white- and black tip reef
sharks. Hammerheads and Mantas can also be seen.
The reef of Shaab Sharm
has superb walls and a stunning plateau. Dive
Shaab Claude at Fury Shoals, famous
for swim-through, caverns and huge porite
corals. For photographers the
shallow and easily dived tug at Abu Galawa
is a must. The wreck has a beautiful stony
coral cover and is packed with glassfish.
Here you will also do an unforgettable night
dive.
You continue for more superb diving at Sataya
and Shaab Maksour. Look for the dolphins here!
Before
returning to Marsa Alam we will visit
Elphinstone. This long and narrow reef has
sheer walls plunging into the blue, full of
huge gorgonians, brightly colored soft corals
and hard coral formations. It create a beautiful
backdrop for the usual brightly colored
reef fish, shoals of jacks, barracuda and
wrasse. Early in the morning sharks
come here to feed on the abundant fish population.
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Deep South to St Johns Reef
Suitable for Advanced
divers with 50 logged dives or more.
Starting from
Hamata, this diving safari is going to take
you to the vast reef system of St John's close
to the Sudanese boarder. Here you find some
of the most beautiful reefs in the Red Sea
and a large variety of fish, including sharks.
Famous dive sites in St Johns include Habili
Ali, Habili Gaafar, Gota Sorayar and Gota
Kebir.
You will also see the reefs of Fury Shoal,
which has something to suit all tastes. Shaab
Claude is an underwater playground with grottos,
tunnels and caverns. Napoleons hang around
the anchor place. The wrecked tug boat at
Abu Galawa offers beautiful corals and glassfish.
It is also excellent for an unforgettable
night dive!Sataya and Shaab Maksour offer
superb diving and a good chance to swim with
dolphins!
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Deep South
to Abu Fandira
Go even further and visit
Abu Fandira. See the southern most reefs and
islands in Egypt.
On this one week cruise
we depart from Hamata and cruise between the
reefs in Fury Shoal, Abu Fandira and St Johns.
In Abu Fandira you can find pristine and uncrowded
diving all year round.
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Marine Parks
Minimum requirement for
all Marine parks is an Advanced certification
(or similar) and 50 logged dives or more.
No night dives are allowed in the marine park
areas.
The Brothers
El
Akawein, the Brothers, are two small islands
in the middle of the Red Sea, some 40 miles
offshore from El Quseir. The islands, just
a five minute boat ride apart are the peaks
of two pillars rising up from the depth. Due
to the exposed location rough seas and strong
currents are common. Once you mastered the
rough journey, stunning underwater scenery
is awaiting you.
The islands are surrounded by costal reefs
with sheer vertical walls and absolute fantastic
coral growth. Soft corals, gorgonians, black
corals and rich fish life everywhere you look.
Tunas, sharks and barracudas cruise by to
check the shoals of snappers and jackfish
hanging around. In summer you might even see
mantas around the Brothers.
If you get tired of coral and fish watching,
you will find two strikingly beautiful wrecks
on the western slopes of the Big Brother Island.
Aida II is an 82 meter long Egyptian military
vessel that sank in 1957 and Numidia is a
British cargo ship that carried locomotive
spare parts when it sank here on its way to
India 1901.
Safaris to the Brothers start north from Hurghada
or south from Marsa Alam. Leaving from Hurghada
and weather allowing, we will spend three
days exploring the Brothers. From Marsa Alam
we will spend two days in the Brothers and
the rest in the Marsa Alam area.
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Daedalus
Reef
Daedalus
is a large oval reef with a lighthouse, 96
km off the coast from Marsa Alam, almost half
the way to Saudi Arabia.
The reef
has spectacular sheer walls carpeted in soft
and hard corals and huge sea fans. The vertical
walls drop away quite steeply on all sides
with the exception of the South where we find
a beautiful plateau with a bottom at 40 meters.
The east side has caves and overhangs where
large groupers hide. On the west side is beautiful
hard coral formations.
Expect to
see barracuda, jacks, tuna and turtles. Daedalus
is also a good place for spotting hammerheads,
gray reef sharks and thresher sharks. Even
mantas and whale sharks cruise by in autumn.
Some rate Daedalus as spectacular as the Brothers.
Daedalus
can be combined with a South or Brothers safari
from Marsa Alam.
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The
Island of Zabargad and Rocky Island
These two
islands lie just a few kilometer north of
Sudan and offer very different dives
Zabargad
offers beautiful wall dives as well as more
shallow areas with dozens of coral towers
to explore. Beautiful coral growth and easily
approachable groupers make this a dream for
underwater photographing. Just off the island,
lying at 24 meters, is a large cargo vessel
worth examining.
Rocky is a small island, elliptical in shape
and surrounded by surface level reefs. The
walls covered in soft corals and gorgonians
go down to more than 1000 meters of water.
The island is home to a large amount of fish,
which again attracts sharks, dolphins and
manta rays looking for pray. Rocky has
often very strong currents. We
do one week Deep South cruises from Hamata
that include St John's reef, Zabargad and
Rocky.
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