Zabargad Island is a wonderful dive site offering wall diving, a wreck, and shallow areas with dozens of slender coral towers. Here live a great many tropical groupers, which are easily approached and photographed during a dive without equals in its category. When diving here at night you will find octopus, crustaceans, and nudibranchs emerge from the crowd through the coral grottos.

Rocky Island is a small fossil-coral island that emerges from the surface, elliptical in shape, surrounded by a surface-level reef. The island sinks its walls down to more than 1000 meters of water. The walls are covered in soft corals and huge gorgonians which float and wave in the current. It is possible to sight many species of shark here as well as sailfish, dolphins, and manta rays.

St John’s is a beautiful reef system which lies approx. 40km north of the Sudanese border and 20km South of Zabargad. It is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Habili Ali offers giant gorgonians and black corals whilst Grey Reef, Silvertip, and schools of Hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of Snappers, Butterfly Fish, and Barracudas. Mantas, Oceanic White Tip, Grey Reef, and Silvertip Sharks can be seen in the blue. Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and the south plateau where Jacks and Barracudas can be seen and the occasional manta. The tunnels are ideal for novice cave divers.

Gota Soraya is rated as possibly one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with overhangs and cracks in the reef wall full of GlassFish and Sweepers and an abundance of corals, Grey Reef, Silvertip, Oceanic White Tip, and Hammerheads.

Elphinstone, with its shear walls covered in soft corals, offers a likely encounter with Grey Reef Sharks circling on the plateaux and even Oceanic White Tip Sharks can be seen here for most of the year.

Please note that the itineraries are examples only. We reserve the right to change the itinerary or specific agreed services, if force majeure, unforeseen or unavoidable circumstances require us to do so.

The boat sails on Sunday early morning, and comes back to the port on Friday at about 15:30. Our free transfer is from/to HRG or RMF airports, to/from the boat, on Saturdays (the first & last days of the trip) ONLY.

North of Hurghada and South of Marsa Alam (RMF airport, not Marsa Alam the city) are not included in the free transfer, an extra charge will apply according to the distance, also extra charges apply for other days than Saturdays.

The latest time to reach the boat is Sunday before 05:00, you can leave the boat whenever suitable for you on Friday after reaching the port & until Saturday at 10:00 if you wish to check out early.

The distance between Hurghada airport and Marsa Ghalib is about 4 hours.

Please arrange your flights accordingly.

If you are an Open Water Diver, we recommend taking the Advanced Open Water course on board to maximize your enjoyment of the trip. Inexperienced and beginner divers may find some dives challenging and may be asked by the Cruise Director to skip dives that are not suitable for their diving experience.