Scuba diving with Euro-Divers in Egypt’s Southern Red Sea opens a vast possibility of realising your dreams and getting some coveted ticks on your marine life bucket list. The encounters will go down in your logbook as some of the most memorable experiences of your diving life.
Top 5 creatures to add to your Red Sea bucket list:
1. Oceanic White-Tip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
Oceanic white-tip sharks are large, pelagic sharks found in tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world. Classified as dangerous to humans, sightings of these majestic creatures get the adrenalin pumping! Classified as ‘threatened’ with extinction due to bycatch in deep-sea fishing, it really is a priviledge to be able to dive with these kings of the ocean. For the best chance of ticking these off your list make sure you dive Elfinstone Reef, Brothers Island or Daedalus Reef and, further south, at Zabargad and Rocky Island.
2. Red Sea Walkman (Inimicus filamentosus)
Belonging to the same family as the stonefish, the Red Sea Walkman is a master of camouflage and a challenge to spot. With poisonous spines along their dorsal fin, this creature is not one you will want to accidentally step on in the shallows but for divers they make for a very good game of hide and seek! The best places to spot them are e.B. Fanadir or Abu Galawa, north of Hurghada.
3. Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncates)
Bottlenose dolphins live in temperate and tropical waters worldwide and are known for their ‘playful’ nature. Egypt is a great place to swim with dolphins in the wild, there are many reefs where they like to hang out and these are known locally as ‘dolphin houses’ where you can snorkel with them regularly. Divers are sometimes joined by dolphins which come very close and spend more than an hour swimming amongst them.
4. Red Sea Dugong (Dugong dugon)
The dugong is a large marine mammal, that is sometimes called a ‘sea cow’ due to its diet of sea grass. Listed as vulnerable to extinction, the dugong is dependent on seagrass meadows for survival They are peaceful and tranquil animals, reaching up to 3 meters in length and weighing up to 500 kg. Look out for them while diving in the bays of the Southern Red Sea.
5. Spanish Dancer (Hexabranchus sanguineus)
Reaching sizes of up to 60 cm, the Spanish dancer is the largest nudibranch and one of the largest sea slugs on the planet. Like most nudibranchs, the Spanish dancer is brightly coloured and does not blend in well with its surroundings so should be easy to spot. The most commonly observed size is between 20 and 30cm long, it is usually orange red speckled with multiple small white dots, but it also can be uniformly bright red or yellow with red scattered spots. Though they spend most of the time crawling along the reef surface, they swim when threatened, violently flapping its external gills and other appendages. Look out for them on any of our reefs.
Each and every dive in the Red Sea will deliver in terms of incredible sights, the above list is simply a suggestion of creatures to add to your must-see list – there will be many, many more!
Happy diving!
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 Malé 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.
