MP North (Brothers/Daedalus/Elphinstone)

About this tour

• • Brothers, Daedalus, Elphinstone
  • This challenging liveaboard takes you to the Brother Islands, Daedalus, Elphinstone Reef and, depending on the itinerary, to some offshore dive sites around Port Ghalib such as Shaab Abu Dabab.
  • The “Brothers” are among the absolute top spots in the world! Big Brother thrills with spectacular drop-offs, huge gorgonian fans, soft corals and an indescribable abundance of fish.
  • The “Aida” and “Numidia” offer unique diving experiences for wreck fans. For “experts”, Little Brother is the even better place despite all the superlatives: immense overhangs, fields of soft and hard corals, turtles, tunas and schools of mackerel are part of everyday diving.
  • Big fish like thresher sharks, hammerheads, capital “greys”, whitetips and blacktips congregate here early in the morning and dusk with countless other species of deep-sea fish.
  • The drop-offs down to 500 metres around Daedalus Island, offer great drift dives with the right current.
  • Elphinstone Reef, which rises from the depths like a camel’s hump, with its beautifully overgrown reef tops, drop-offs and resident sharks, is always great to dive.
  • Depending on the itinerary, the interesting dive sites around Abu Dabab offer a neat conclusion to what is probably the best route in the Red Sea

Elphinstone

From Marsa Alam the boat goes about one and a half hours north to Elphinstone Reef! The reef top of Elphinstone Reef lies at a depth of between one and three meters, depending on the water level. Strong surface currents and lots of boat traffic make snorkeling here impossible.

Divers, however, can dive right into a challenging treat! The reef is known for its exceptional biodiversity and, of course, sightings of large fish. In the north we dive on a sloping plateau from 18 to 40 meters and in the south on the underwater terraces. The west and east walls drop off steeply into the depths. The Elphinstone reef has a total length of about 600 meters and a width of 70 meters.
In large numbers we can see hard and soft corals in all colors. In addition, there are turtles, moray eels, loceanic white tip sharks, hammerhead sharks and pretty much everything that the Red Sea has to offer.