If you’ve been dreaming of diving for many months and are now starting to plan a trip, you’ll want to make sure it’s been worth waiting for. Egypt’s Southern Red Sea is world-renowned for the diving on offer – great visibility combined with beautiful reefs bursting with marine life is every divers dream. Utopia Beach Club and Grand Hotel are perfectly placed to offer the convenience of having some of the top dive sites of the area within easy reach.
Utopia Beach Club
Shaab Kenz with Zodiac
Start your dive in a beautiful canyon before exploring a plateau full of fish life and incredible soft corals.
South Plateau with Zodiac
Dive a breathtaking reef wall pointing towards the open sea. Frequent currents bathe the reef with nutrients and provide the perfect environment for colourful soft corals and hard corals alike – the reef is totally covered with them. Schools of fusiliers, tuna and napoleons are regular visitors along this reef wall.
Sheik Malik by Bus
Large turtles and a dugong love the seaweed area of this small reef located in the sandy bay.
Shaab Rahma by Bus
Begin by diving through a small hole leading to an amazing canyon – this is reef structure with the ‘wow factor’ and to add to this great dive you’ll have the opportunity to see turtles and eagle rays too.
Elphinstone Reef by bus and speedboat
One of the most famous and demanding of all Red Sea Dive Sites! At approximately 350 metres long, the east and west sides offer
beautifully overgrown steep walls but it’s the north and south plateaus where the action usually happens –it’s where divers have a high chance of encountering Oceanic White Tip sharks (Carcharhinus longimanus), hammerheads and other pelagics.
A little further by bus, for those seeking wrecks, we can reach Salem Express wreck in the Safaga diving area and the Abu Gusun wreck south of Marsa Alam.
Grand Hotel Hurghada
Careless Reef
A spectacular display of both hard and soft corals is found here, thanks to its location amidst the current. It’s a plateau dive with a steep wall on the east side and reef sharks are often seen cruising around here.
Police station
The drift dive past the old police station on Little Giftun Island is a MUST for every experienced diver. A breathtaking gorgonian forest awaits at 30 metres, the likes of which is not seen elsewhere in the area.
Abu Ramada North
A plateau drawn to the east separates from the main reef and is covered with hard coral blocks. Tunas, Napoleons and the occasional reef shark can be seen here. The northern wall is covered with gorgonians and colourful soft coral vegetation.
Gota Abu Ramada
The coral garden in Hurghada par excellence. The place is ideal for stationary dives and is also a great experience for snorkelers.
El Aruk
Numerous coral blocks stand on a plateau at a depth of only 10-12 m at short intervals. Due to the exposed location, these are lush and abundant with life.
If you simply can’t wait any longer, come and see us in the Southern Red Sea – we’ll make sure it’s been worth waiting for!
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
