Date/Time
Date(s) - 29/06/2020 - 06/07/2020
All Day
Category(ies)
Deep South 29th June 2020 £1,629.00 .
This itinerary is suitable for open water divers but can be challenging, offering big drop-offs overgrown with huge gorgonians and colourful soft corals. Divers will have the opportunity to explore a variety of truly unique dive sites home to some very interesting and unusual reef formations. This itinerary is perfect for divers wanting to experience a slightly more ‘untouched’ Red Sea and is not to be missed.
The Vessel
Updated as recently as 2016, multi-award-winning M/Y blue Horizon is our flagship vessel and the benchmark for all other blue o two vessels to follow. With a contemporary and stylish feel, M/Y blue Horizon is truly deserving of the title ‘Liveaboard of the Year’, awarded in 2016.
*PLEASE NOTE*
The itinerary below is just an example of the route taken and the order and dive sites are not guaranteed. All dives sites are subject to weather conditions and the final route taken is at the absolute discretion of the captain and dive guides.
Sample Itinerary
Day 1 – Visit a dive site local to Port Ghalib for a check dive before heading south for your afternoon dive on the way to St Johns.
Day 2 – Explore St John’s Reef
Day 3 – Morning in St John’s before travelling north to dive in the area of Cave Reef before continuing towards Fury Shoal.
Day 4 – A relaxing day of alluring reef diving in Fury Shoal
Day 5 – Travel north from Fury Shoal taking in the beautiful dive sites of the Wadi Gamal area.
Day 6 – After an early morning dive at Elphinstone, enjoy a relaxed dive local to Port Ghalib allowing you to cruise into harbour in the early afternoon.
Top itinerary dive sites
St. Johns Reef
Exciting drop-offs overgrown with huge gorgonians and colourful soft corals, stunning coral gardens and safe anchorages for night diving. Barracudas, tuna, mackerel, manta rays and dolphins are often sighted here. Hammerheads, grey sharks, silvertip sharks and white tip reef sharks can often be spotted out in the blue.
St. Johns Reef North
Located one hour north of the main St.John’s area. Have fun finding your way through tunnels and around pinnacles.
Elphinstone Reef
A Red Sea legend. One of the most beautiful reefs, with north and south plateau’s covered in hard and soft corals. This is a truly awesome reef a must for all photographers.
Fury Shoal
An immense chain of reefs creating a host of outstanding dive sites including Abu Galawa in the north to Sataya in the south. Have fun exploring caves, tunnels, coral gardens, plateaus and drop offs! Abu Galawa is located within Fury Shoal home to Hammerheads- have fun exploring the wreck of ‘Tug Boat’. The reef also has good coral dives on the west side.
To Secure your place please contact Martin Deposit is £250.00 remainder payable 3 months before departure.