Deep South

Tour description

Elphinstone reef, Fury shoal and St John's, so many appealing and famous dive sites are on the way of this unforgettable itinerary in the Deep South of the Red Sea!
A perfect cruise for divers who love variety: Colorful coral gardens with a life bursting of fish population, impressive drop offs, reefs scattered with caves and canyons and wrecks: the best of the Red Sea concentrated in a single region.
Highlights: up to eight different species of sharks as fox shark, schools of hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks and even Longimanus are spotted in the area on a regular basis. After arrival in Hurghada or Marsa Alam, transfer to the boat in Marsa. A must-do to get introduced with class to the magic of the Red Sea!

Caves & canyons
Sharks
Wall dives

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Included

Permission and transfers

Transfer (Airport - Boat - Airport)
Port Ghalib / Hurghada marina fee
Safari permission and tax
Fuel supplement
2 dive guides

Aboard

Shared double cabin
All meals
Water, coffee, tea and soft drinks
3 to 4 dives per day. Last day 2 to 3 dives
12 l cylinder with air or nitrox

Extras

Nationalpark fees & Visa

Nationalpark fee Daedalus €40
Nationalpark fee Brothers €50
Nationalpark fee Rocky & Zabargad €40
Nationalpark fee Daedalus, Rocky & Zabargad €70
Nationalpark fee Brothers & Daedalus €80
Egyptian Visa at arrival (optional) €30

Rental equipment per week

Full equipment incl. computer and torch €160
Neopren suit €30
BCD €35
Regulator €35
Mask & snorkel €10
Fins with boots €30
Diving computer €35
Buoy (DSMB) €20
Torch €30
15 liter cylinder €35

Courses

SSI Nitrox course incl. training material and certificate €99
SSI/PADI OWD Referral €179
SSI Advanced Adventurer €195
PADI AOWD €195
SSI/PADI specialty course - price per dive €39
Rebreather courses - rEvo, Inspiration, Poseidon MK VI, Hollis Explorer on request
Course material and certificate €55

Planned dive sites during the trip

Shaab Sharm

very famous reef in marsa alam Area ,a reef with nice plateau on it south part starting from 18m to end with very interesting drop off ,very colorful east wall always done as adrift dive due to moderate to strong currents,
gray and white tip reef sharks,tunas ,napoleon,turtle,barracuda and bottlenose dolphins are often spotted there.

St. John

St. John is a chain of reefs and it is the furthest South you will get in Egypt's Red Sea area. While diving you can easily move from one place to another, because dive sites are very close to each other. Place is still not discovered much and corals are very colorful. The marine life and the colors of the soft corals are really impressive, we can claim, that they are one of the best in the Red Sea. St. John offers safe anchorages for night diving. You can enjoy exciting drop-offs overgrown with huge gorgonians and colorful soft corals, stunning coral gardens.

Habili Ali

Great wall dives with massive amount of black coral fans with reef,and oceanic sharks and medium to strong currents !

Umm Khararim

A shallow reef with Big caves and tunnels with a lagoon surrounded by colorful coral garden, and very interesting marine life with average depth of 12.

Dangerous Reef

With a depth between 10 m to 30 m and very nice coral blocks covered with soft corals and main reef has very interesting tunnels

Big Gotha

A wall dive with low current , barracuda school ,dog tooth tuna

Elphinstone Reef

Elphinstone is one of the most famous and beautiful reefs in Egypt. The reef stretches over a length of 400 meter and features two plateaus, one on each end. The northern plateau is famous for is beautiful coral growth and the chance to see Hammerhead Sharks, wether the plateau in the south is well know for the regular Oceanic Whitetip Shark (Longimanus) encounter between autumn and spring. Beside the plateaus, the walls on the east and the west side offer beautiful vertical walls with lots of soft corals and Gorgonian fence corals, due to the strong current which is often present. When diving Elphinstone, always keep a eye in the blue, as there are often pelagic fish passing by.

Small Gotha

It is rated as one of the best wall dives on the red sea ,because of its overhangs on the reef wall with glass fishes , hammerhead and gray reef sharks .

Habili Gaafar

Very fascinating small reef starting on 5 m descending in deep water. needs a calm sea to be dived ,with possibility to see different kinds of sharks ,big tunas, big travallies .

Umm Uruk

Nice dive .a lot of small pinnacles with very colorful corals.

Paradise Reef

Main reef surrounded by small pinnacles and nice hard corals on average depth of 15 m.

Fury Shoal

Fury Shoal is an immeasurable chain of reefs. You can start your dive in Abu Galawa reef and continue untill Sataya in the south. Have fun exploring coral gardens, caves, plateaus, tunnels, and drop offs. It s very memorable place, perfect for the ones enjoying underwater photography and video. Coral reef is not discovered by a lot of divers and is in excellent condition.

Shaab Sataya (Dolphin Reef)

Dolphin Reef or Shaab sataya is around 4 km long reef with very big lagoon. The lagoon is favored by lots of dolphins. the main reef is descending on the north and the south reef side with a sloped sandy bottom between very nice pinnacles ,to reach a drop off on both sides goes deeper than 200 m with lots of overhangs marine life is very interesting because of the a mount of dolphins which come to this place and sometimes in big numbers ,in addition to lots of stingrays, turtle ,and reef sharks on its wall dives.

Abu Galawa Kebir

couple of 2 big reefs having very healthy coral gardens on its west side , an old Chinese tug boat (tien hsing) as wreck almost all of it covered with beautiful coral reefs ,the wreck is starting very close to the surface to reach max Depth of 18 m, which make the wreck very interesting and attracting specially the photographers , in addition to the fabulous night diving.

Abu Galawa Soraya

A famous place on the fury shoals,you can dive between its channels of coral gardens ,and white tip reef sharks can be seen on its sandy bottom,rays ,big groupers plus small but interesting yacht as shipwreck.

Shaab Claudio

It is called as Claudia too ,Such a wonderful dive site in the red sea ,it has nice caves between 6m-8m and a healthy coral garden around the reef ,morays ,napoleon wrasse ,and groupers,considered as one of the fury shoals highlights .

Malahi

Beautiful big blocks meeting each other down at depth between 9m-12 with very nice hard coral and channels forming kind of a labyrinth but very easy to dive,a way from the main reef ,it had a very nice plateau with reef sharks .

Rocky Island

Rocky Island hosts a decorative reef that circles the entire surroundings of the island. The most interesting features and life are found above 12m. The Reef is dropping steeply to astonishing depths.

Shaab Maksur

A big reef situated in the eastern part of the fury shoals ,has three diving spots most dived is the north plateau with its rich marine life, possibility to see hammerhead and gray reef sharks ,south plateau with very beautiful coral blocks and colorful walls , napoleon wrasse ,turtle ,barracudas,,big eye travallies

Zabargad

The Island of Zabargad is a very unique dive spot. It is described by an enormous rocky mountain reaching out of the water, surrounded by a lagoon and circling reef. There are a couple of wrecks and a great variety of corals.