June 2023 was an amazing month for the Euro-Divers Red Sea Dive Safari team and their guests who enjoyed world-class diving and delicious food, amongst great company.
Trip 1 was from 8th to 15th June 2023 aboard M/Y Heaven Sapphire with 18 guests, it was hot (up to 43 degrees!) with no wind and almost no waves which made travelling between sites very fast.
A couple of days later, on 17th June trip 2 departed aboard M/Y Galaxy 720 with 17 guests, retuning on 24th June. Conditions were more ‘normal’ for Egypt and the temperature had dropped back to a mere 35 degrees!
Both trips were accompanied by two experienced guides as well as Bernhard and Marion to offer support and advice and to ensure everything ran smoothly and enjoyably.
The favourable conditions meant all planned dive sites could be reached:
Shaab el Erg
This is where we completed refresh dives at the start of the trips and we knew we were going to be lucky when we saw dolphins underwater, it was a good omen for the fabulous dives that followed!
Abu Nuhas
We dived the Giannis D and the Chrisoula K, both freight ships overgrown by corals and lying upright on the reef with a maximum depth of 28 metres. The wrecks are easy to dive and it’s possible to partially to penetrate them too.
Thistlegorm
The most famous wreck in Egypt. Thistlegorm is a military freighter, sunk 1944, still full of military goods such as tanks, trucks of Triumph motorcycles, an aeroplane, guns and bombs. We were in the fortunate position to be able to avoid diving this popular wreck at busy times and we enjoyed a spectacular sunset dive with great visibility and no other divers, as well as an early morning dive, taking full advantage of liveaboard diving!
Ras Mohammed National Park
We dived Jolanda reef with the remains of the Jolanda wreck, of which there is not much left. It was a freighter carrying bathtubs, toilets and sinks, and as it is exposed to current, the fish life around it is amazing with schools of groupers, doctor fish, fusiliers and a huge cloud of little red groupers covering the reef wall. We saw turtles, big napoleons hunting together with jack fish, moray eels, schools of bat fish and much more. The dives were so good that we did them twice on each trip according to our guests’ wishes.
Strait of Tiran
At Strait of Tiran we visited Gordon Reef, Jackson Reef, Woodhouse, and Thomas Reef. Despite being so close to Sharm el Sheik and within easy reach of the day boats, the reefs are in a top condition and totally amazing. There are corals and fish life in abundance with schools of butterfly fish, fusiliers, all kinds of groupers, lots of colourful soft corals and many gorgonian fans – the reefs are comparable with Brothers and Daedalus in the South. We had a lucky encounter with a hammerhead shark on Woodhouse Reef where we also found nice canyons to explore a little deeper.
The final dives were in the Hurghada area, where we dived at Police station, Erg Abu Ramamda and Abu Ramada Plateau – these sites, although the best in the area can be tricky to dive due to the current but we were lucky and could enjoy all three!
We all know that diving gives you a good appetite and the divers on our trips had no chance to get hungry! Onboard Heaven we had special country themed dinner events, on Galaxy we had buffets with salads, soups, 2 or 3 choices of meat or fish each day plus desserts. In between the dives the crews served a variety of snacks, from waffles with ice cream, to pizza, burgers, and Egyptian fried snacks.
The guest’s music compilation set the scene for relaxed evenings with cold beer and thirst-quenching gin and tonics.
If you’re yearning for a dive trip that will beat all others, where you will be in good company amongst likeminded souls, and seeing the best of the Red Sea’s reefs, Join us for the 2024 dive safaris – places go very quickly!
Please contact us if you require any further information about upcoming trips or to book your place.
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.
