About Little Brother
Little Brother is the smaller of Egypt's two remote Brothers Islands, rising steeply from the open Red Sea. Its walls are covered with gorgonian fans and soft corals, while exposed cleaning stations attract thresher sharks, grey reef sharks and occasional oceanic whitetips. Strong currents and deep drop-offs make this a demanding liveaboard-only site for experienced divers.
Highlights
Thresher sharksGrey reef sharksGorgonian wallsSoft corals
Season calendar
Best months to dive here
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Excellent
Good
Mar – May & Sep – Nov (Peak)
Best conditions with 30m+ visibility, comfortable water temps 24–28°C. Hammerhead sharks at Brothers, thresher sharks at Elphinstone.
Jun – Aug & Dec – Feb (Shoulder)
Jun–Aug: hot topside but warm water, good for southern routes. Dec–Feb: cooler water (21–23°C) attracts oceanic whitetips at Elphinstone. Still excellent visibility.
Dive site facts: Little Brother
- Depth
- 5–40 m
- Current
- Strong
- Entry
- Liveaboard only
- Level
- Advanced
- Dive type
- Reef, Wall, Drift, Shark
- Region / port
- Egypt
- Coordinates
- 26.3000° N, 34.8570° E
Conditions & Currents
Little Brother is an exposed offshore reef with strong and changeable currents. Diving is normally conducted as a drift from a liveaboard, with a DSMB required and no night diving permitted in the marine park. Dive profiles here run between roughly 5 and 40 metres, so plan your gas and no-decompression limits around the deeper part of the site. It is usually briefed as a dive for advanced divers. The site is reached by liveaboard, so entries are run from the tender or straight off the back deck. Because the flow can pick up quickly, drift profiles, a surface marker buoy and a tight group are standard practice here, and the crew's briefing always overrides any general description.
Why dive Little Brother from a liveaboard?
Little Brother is one of Egypt's signature dive sites. A liveaboard sleeps you on the water and puts you in the water for three to four guided dives per day, including dawn and night dives that day-boat operators rarely offer. You skip the daily commute back to port and reach quieter, less-crowded sites in the same region on a single trip.
Below are the liveaboards that include Little Brother on their Egypt itineraries.
Route region: Liveaboards at Brothers, Daedalus & Elphinstone →
Liveaboards diving Little Brother
These liveaboards may visit Little Brother on selected itineraries — the exact dive sites depend on departure, weather and conditions.
DUNE Longara
Egypt
30 guests
JP Marine
Egypt
28 guests
Snefro Pearl
Egypt
12 guests
Snefro Love
Egypt
20 guests
Sindalahs
Egypt
26 guests38 m
Hammerhead II
Egypt
20 guests
Blue Liveaboard
Egypt
24 guests43 m
Odyssey
Egypt
26 guests40 m
Discovery I
Egypt
20 guests
Star Jet
Egypt
28 guests35 m
SS Serena Dreams
Egypt
18 guests33 m
Amelie
Egypt
12 guests23 m
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