Sea Friend · Egypt · 8 Days / 7 Nights
Embark on an 8-day liveaboard journey exploring the secluded southern regions of the Egyptian Red Sea. Departing from Hamata, this trip ventures to pristine and less-visited areas like St. John's and Fury Shoals. With approximately 18 dives included, divers can experience dramatic walls and beautiful coral gardens. The itinerary is designed for adventure-seekers, offering encounters with reef sharks, turtles, and rays in crystal-clear waters. Max guests on this trip: 20.
Hamata
Guests are transferred from the local airport or a hotel to the liveaboard. After a warm welcome and settling into cabins, the crew will provide a safety briefing and boat orientation. Following dinner, the vessel begins its journey south.
Southern Red Sea
The next several days are spent exploring the highlights of the southern Red Sea, including renowned areas like St. John's reefs, Fury Shoals, and Daedalus Reef. Divers will experience a mix of exhilarating drift dives and relaxed reef explorations, encountering vibrant coral formations and schools of tropical fish. Marine life sightings may include reef sharks, turtles, and eagle rays.
Good to know: night dives are generally not permitted in marine park areas
Southern Red Sea
Today, explore the breathtaking southern reefs, potentially including dive sites like Sha'ab Maksour and Abu Kifan. These renowned offshore reefs offer thrilling drift dives along impressive walls, adorned with vibrant soft corals and teeming with anthias. Divers can anticipate encounters with schooling pelagics, barracuda, tuna, and various reef sharks, while lucky sightings of manta rays or oceanic whitetip sharks add to the excitement.
Good to know: night dives are generally not permitted in marine park areas
Southern Red Sea
Today focuses on the vibrant southern reefs of St. John's, with sites like Gotta Soraya and Abili. Divers typically experience drift dives along colourful walls and pinnacles, teeming with soft corals and reef fish. Encounters with white-tip reef sharks, barracuda, and large Napoleon wrasse are common, offering ample photographic opportunities. Night dives may reveal sleeping parrotfish and hunting moray eels.
Good to know: night dives are generally not permitted in marine park areas
Southern Red Sea
Today focuses on the exceptional dive sites of the Southern Red Sea, typically including dives at Sha'ab Maksour and the legendary Elphinstone Reef. Divers can anticipate exhilarating drift dives along vibrant walls brimming with soft corals, encountering schooling barracuda, trevally, and possibly oceanic whitetip or hammerhead sharks. The diverse reef life, including various nudibranchs and anemonefish, makes for rewarding bottom time. Expect varying currents and a chance for close encounters with larger pelagic species.
Good to know: night dives are generally not permitted in marine park areas
Southern Red Sea
Today involves drift dives along the vibrant reefs of Sha'ab Maksour and Abu Kifan. Expect to encounter grey reef sharks, hammerheads, and whitetip reef sharks patrolling the drop-offs, while manta rays and large pelagics may pass in the blue. The strong currents here foster incredible coral growth and a healthy reef ecosystem teeming with reef fish.
Good to know: night dives are generally not permitted in marine park areas
Southern Red Sea
Today, the expedition focuses on the Southern Red Sea's vibrant reef systems. Divers explore sites like Sha'ab Maksour and Abu Kifan, renowned for their incredible wall dives and strong currents. Expect encounters with grey reef sharks, hammerheads, and manta rays patrolling the deep, alongside schooling reef fish, healthy corals, and occasional oceanic whitetips in the blue. The diving is primarily drift, offering exhilarating experiences.
Good to know: night dives are generally not permitted in marine park areas
Hamata
Following a light breakfast, guests will check out and disembark in the Marsa Alam area for their transfers to the airport or for onward travel. The final dive of the trip takes place on the previous day to ensure a safe 24-hour no-fly period.