DIVE ADVICE TRAVEL

In the early 80’s, I spent four years on a legendary dive boat in the Red Sea, where I had the opportunity to explore where few had gone before. We were truly pioneers and our adventures were nothing less than the things dreams are made of.

Ours was one of the two boats diving there at the time. If you've been there in the past 10 years, I know that's hard to imagine! But, in spite of the growth in popularity and the mass numbers of day-boats in the Red Sea today, there are still opportunities for spectacular diving - and I return every chance I get.

Photographers, be assured that opportunities still abound for great shots, both macro and wide-angle.

And good news for your trip planning . . . my good friend, Isabelle Denn, who worked on the Lady Jenny with me all those years ago, has recently joined us as our expert on the Red Sea and the Maldives. Please welcome her "on board"! She can help you with diving in the northern and southern parts of the Red Sea, which are especially great for novice divers and family trips.

However, our preferred trips for experienced divers concentrate on the Sudan region. The liveaboards on the site all offer spectacular diving in Sudan.

Please don't hesitate to contact us for information while we're working on the site. I always love talking about the Red Sea!

Cheers, Dom

Red Sea Map

The Diving

Liveaboards

Overview

The Red Sea is probably the first place that comes to mind when you think about diving.

Made famous by Jacques Cousteau, generations of divers have had visions of the Red Sea - rich corals, masses of colorful reef fish, countless amazing wrecks (from freighters to destroyers) . . . and to top it all off schooling rays and sharks and playful dolphins.

Today the northern part of the Red Sea is heavily populated with day boats, and while it is still worthwhile diving,
many divers prefer to skip the crowds and head for the southern waters, exploring into Sudan.

You'll find a haven for large predators, as well as still-plentiful numbers of the creatures the Red Sea has long been known for - lionfish, triggerfish, parrotfish, sweetlips, Wrasse, batfish, jacks and barracuda . . . well, the list is long.

You'll experience pinnacles, grottos, lagoons, plateaus and drift diving - plus healthy and prevalent soft and hard corals - all in beautifully clear water.

Below you'll find an overview of each of the 4 Red Sea diving regions. Details of the boats are coming soon.
For immediate questions, feel free to contact us.

Sudan

Highly rated as the ‘serious diver's’ paradise, Sudan has some wild & thrilling dives to its name.

You'll find world renowned sites Sanganeb (some of the best coral in the Red Sea) - Shaab Rumi (with the remains of Cousteau's Conshelf II experiment) - Abington (where hammerheads & turtles reign), Angarosh & Merlo Reef (both known for sharks, sharks & more sharks!).

You will dive the wreck of the Umbria (described by Hans Hass as ‘one of the worlds finest wrecks’). You can access her cargo holds still containing an amazing quantity of wine not to mention more than 350,00 bombs! The engine rooms, corridors and cabins are all accessible to experienced divers.

Expect to see schooling jack, barracuda, tuna, snapper, grey & white tip sharks & mantas. Sightings of hammerheads, silky & oceanic white tips are not uncommon.

Add to this the pristine reefs, abundant corals and frequent encounters with dolphins in the lagoon at Sanganeb, Sudan makes for truly exhilarating diving.

We recommend 4 fine liveaboards for diving this spectacular region. See our liveaboards page for more information.

Central Red Sea - Marsa Alam, Brothers, Elphinstone (Marine Park)

Marsa Alam
Something for everyone, both shore based and liveaboard diving. This area is rated as one of the top destinations in the world, still totally unspoiled.

See dolphins at Samadai, dugongs at Marsa Mubarak, dive the cave systems, canyons & swim throughs of Shab Claude. Large bays with rays, turtles and, snake eels. Exciting fringing reefs with pelagic and schooling fishes, white tips and mantas.

Brothers
Truly unforgettable diving on a pair of remote, tiny islands, considered by many to be among the best dive sites in the world.

Spectacular reef pillars, vertical walls, fantastic hard & soft corals, gorgonians, black corals and prolific fish life, wrecks, incredible exhilarating diving awaits….

On the drop offs large schools of snappers, jacks, turtles, white-tip reef sharks, gray reef sharks, turtles, and hammerheads congregate.

Elphinstone
This legendary off shore reef is a pelagic paradise; frequented by oceanic white tips, barracuda, tuna, hammerheads, turtles & Napoleon wrasse offering spectacular wall diving into the blue.

South and Deep South Red Sea (Marine Park)

Furyshoal, St. John’s, Rocky Island, Daedelus, Zabargad

Remote, offshore islands & reefs otherwise known as the Egyptian Red Sea's ‘best of the best’, an experienced divers dream come true, will excite the most hardened & well travelled diver. Outstanding wall dives full of ‘pelagic action’, schooling hammerheads, oceanic white tips, threshers, mantas and much more….

Pristine hard corals, prolific soft corals, abundant fish life, a visionary underwater wonderland….incredible diving.

Northern Red Sea - Sharm el Sheikh and Hurgadah

Some of the most legendary dive sites on offer in the Red Sea and an ideal first Red Sea experience boasting over thirty dive sites.

An itinerary here includes some world famous dive sites such as Tiran Straits, the dramatic Ras Mohamed, the WWII wrecks of the Thistlegorm & Rosalie Moller as well as other fascinating wrecks at Abu Nuhas-the ships graveyard.

Steep reefs, coral gardens and caves all teeming with tropical life abound.

Please feel free to contact us directly for further information.