Easy Guide to Egyptian Liveaboard Itineries

Your Guide to Liveaboard Itineraries in the Egyptian Red Sea

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Having lived, worked and dived all over Egypt during the last 22 years I thought we’ve made it easy for you work out which is the best Red Sea itinerary for you.

If you aren’t sure or would like some advice then our team of professional divers are always happy to help.

Red Sea Wrecks and Reefs

This a trip where you dive some great reefs but also a number of wrecks including the SS Thistlegorm. This is one of the most famous dive’able wrecks in the world as it was discovered by Jacques Cousteux. The British supply ship was on its way to supply munitions to the allied forces in Africa when it was bombed by the Germans. It now lies in 30m of water and you can still see the motorbikes, trucks, steam engines and plane wings in the ship. Ideally you need to be Advanced with 20 dives to do this trip.

Best of Red Sea Wrecks

This is for true heavy metal fans and as the name suggests involves diving lots of wrecks. Some of the wrecks are on reefs and act as artificial reefs but if you want to see lots of marine life and coral then this is probably not for you. Ideally you need to be Advanced with about 35 dives for this trip (the Deep specialty certification is also useful as one of the wrecks is around 40m)

Simply the Best of the Red Sea

This is one of the most popular itineraries for diver who like adrenalin fuelled dives. The trip focuses on reefs hundreds of miles out to see. Due to the rich nutrients this means the coral life is excellent and it attracts large pelagics such as sharks, tuna etc.

Many Red Sea liveaboards also offer a ‘Shark Week’ version of the trip where you are accompanied by a Shark Specialist such as Scuba Scene’s Elke Bojanowski, founder of the Red Sea Shark Trust (aka the Shark Lady). She does really interesting presentations about sharks and the future conservation.

There can be some exciting drift dives on this itinerary so for this trip you need to be ideally Advanced open water with 50 dives+

Deep South Red Sea

This takes you to some of the more remote and pristine reefs in the Red Sea. It’s great if you want to see lots of corals and aquarium like dive sites. It is much more relaxed then Simply the Best and can be enjoyed by anyone who is Advanced or more.

Marine life often includes dolphins, turtles, clownfish and batfish.

Daedulus & St. Johns

Daedulus is one of the adrenalin dive sites found on ‘Simply the Best’ itinerary and is where you tend to get schools of 20-30 hammerheads depending on the time of year. Other large pelagics often swim by and every dive is different.

St. Johns Reef’s are some of the most pristine reefs found in the Deep South itinerary so this itinerary is a good mixed bag.

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Brothers and Elphinstone

These are 2 of the 3 highlights that make up the ‘Best of the Red Sea’. Brothers Islands are 2 small islands in the middle of the Red Sea where you often see large grey reef sharks and threshers and in winter oceanic white tips.

Elphinstone is a finger shaped reef that comes up from the depths in the middle of the sea. Frequent visitors include hammerheads and other pelagics.

Ideally you need to be Advanced with 50 dives for this trip.

If you would like to visit the Red Sea, one of the world’s greatest liveaboard diving holiday destinations, then there is no better boat than Scuba Scene. If you would like to discuss your holiday options then please just call the team on 0800 699 0243.

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