Overview
Come explore the legendary Egyptian Red Sea on the Northern Reefs & Wrecks Itinerary!
This itinerary presents the best of both worlds, where you visit famous wrecks in the northern Red Sea along with some stunning reef diving. As a 21+ DIVES cruise, there’s a good chance to enjoy 21 or more dives on a 7-day safari if you choose to.
The famous horseshoe shaped reef of Shaab El Erg is a perfect example of the reefs on offer on this cruise with its beautiful hard coral garden and the chance to dive with dolphins.
Abu Nuhas has four well-known wrecks: Giannis D, Carnatic, the Chrisoula K (’tile wreck’) and the Kimon M (‘lentil wreck’), all offering spectacular dives and plenty of fish life.
In between wreck dives you will also visit the reefs of the Straits of Gubal, Gulf of Suez and those to the north of Hurghada. A variety of deep walls and hard coral gardens with an abundance of reef fish make them well worth a visit.
Night dives can be superb as Gubal Island offers protected anchoring for the night. A small wreck at 8-10 metres makes for a spectacular night dive with lionfish, scorpion fish and its resident giant
moray eel as well as the wreck of the Ulysses. Next onto the Kingston lying at Shag Rock, the Carina lying close to Sha’ab Ali and the Dunraven at Beacon Rock.
Location: Diving around the beautiful Northern reefs and world famous wrecks of the Red Sea in Egypt.
Dates: 28th June – 5th July 2024
Duration: 7 nights/ 6 diving days Diving: Boat for all levels of experience (Min 20 dives).
Vessel: MV Emperor Asmaa
Departure Port: Hurghada, Egypt
Price: $1,750 per person (twin share basis)
The Vessel
The MV Emperor Asmaa is designed with the diver in mind, comfortably accommodating 20 people in 10 twin-berth cabins, all ensuite.
Boat Faculties:
- Main deck: Air-conditioned lounge/dining; comfy sofas, TV with USB and locally stocked bar offering beer, wine and premium coffees; espresso, latte and cappuccino. Dive deck and dive platform.
- Upper deck: Locally stocked bar offering beer and wine. Outdoor seating area with deck chairs and tables.
- Sun deck: Deckchairs, sunbeds, bean bags
- Wifi complimentary and limited-data package for single device. Additional codes available on board. Please read terms of use.
- Medical: Oxygen, comprehensive First Aid and AED available
- Camera facilities: Charging stations, air gun, rinse tanks and camera table
- 2 dive guides
- Dive deck: Spacious dive deck and 7m x 7m dive platform. 3 x Bauer compressors under deck.
- Diving tender: 2 x Zodiac 40 HP
- Dive tanks: Equipped with 12 litre Aluminium tanks as standard and 15 litre Steel tanks on request.
Diving
Ras Mohamed lies on the southern most tip of the Sinai and is one of the best kept National Parks in Egypt with waters full of nutrients, steep walls going down to a depth of 1,000 metres attracting a large amount of big fish and earning itself a reputation as one of the top diving areas in the world.
Whilst here, you may have the chance to dive at Shark Reef, a sheer wall falling into the blue, as well as the wreck of the Yolanda.
Jackson Reef, locally named the ‘Aquarium’, is Tiran‘s most popular dive with the ‘Jackson Drift’ being Sharm’s fastest and most exhilarating drift dive past a stunning wall bursting with prolific coral growth. A school of scalloped hammerheads can be seen in the Summer. Thomas Reef gives you plunging walls covered with soft coral, gorgonians and colourful fish life. The west wall is darker with overhangs and caves full of glassfish and sweepers. A night dive at Gordon
Reef promises various species of coral, small nudibranchs hidden in the crevices and the soft corals and a chance to see white tip reef sharks, eagle rays, octopus and different types of eel such as moray, peppered and gold edged morays.
Finally, the most famous wreck in the Red Sea, the SS Thistlegorm, at Shaab Ali including a night dive on Thistle. The Thistlegorm was sunk in 1941 after being bombed by the German Luftwaffe while on a mission to deliver a cargo of ammunition and other war materials to the British troops in North Africa.
Itinerary
Arrive: Friday 28th June 2024 to embark on MV Emperor Asmaa for 7 nights with departure at 6:00pm. Emperor Divers paperwork check in and welcome dinner with Holly, Mark and vessel crew.
Diving: Saturday – Friday. 4-5 dives a day for the exception of Friday (2 dives). Dives will be a variety of reef, wrecks or blue water dives for pelagics.
Diving Times: Morning dive at 6am, 2nd dive at 10am, 3rd dive at 2pm, 4th dive at 4pm and night dives at 6:30pm.
Meals: Family buffet meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast will be served from 7.30am, lunch at 12.00pm and dinner at 7:00pm.
Depart: Friday 5th July 2024. Disembark at 9:00am after morning dives and local transfer to hotel or Hurghada International Airport for your flight home. Check out our May 2022 trip to Egypt with Emperor Divers on YouTube to see how special and epic the diving is here!
Pricing
Price: $1,750 per person (twin share basis)
By Booking onto our trips you agree to our Booking, Payment & Cancellation Policy.
Booking, Payment & Cancellation Policy
- Blue Horizon Adventures Limited and Blue Horizon Diving Limited’s cancellation policy is inline with the cancellation policy of our operators. Once payment has been made in full there are no refunds.
- To guarantee your space on the trip, a 50% deposit is due with the booking. When we receive your deposit, we will send you a detailed trip information pack including welcome letter, booking voucher, invoice, sale receipt, waivers and forms to allow you to prepare for the diving trip.
- The remaining 50% of your payment is due is due by 1st January 2024.
- Full payment is due five (5) months prior to the trip start day.
- We reserve the right to re-sell any space that is not paid in full by this date.
- Deposits are non-refundable.
- No refund is made for any unused parts of the itinerary.
- Trip details such as dates, prices, accommodations, are subject to change without prior notice.
- Travel and dive insurance is not included in the trip price but is strongly recommended to have.
- A dive medical form will be provided for completion on booking to ensure you are fit to dive. If Yes is answered to any question, a doctor sign off will be required. This must be completed prior to our trip. If unable to be cleared our repayment terms apply as per noted in the booking, payment and cancellation policy.
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- Flights, visa, travel expenses and taxes are not included in the trip cost.
- Travel and dive insurance is not included in the trip price but is strongly recommended to have.
- Flight time and schedule, weather, water temperature, and animal behavior are all subject to change.
- We strongly recommend and advise all guests to purchase travel insurance in case of unforeseen circumstances.