Deep South/St. Johns

About this tour

• A wonderful tour for divers who love variety: Colorful coral gardens with schools of fish, breathtaking drop-offs, reefs with cave passages, some wrecks and, not to forget, the spectacular night dives. A mixture of the best the Red Sea has to offer. The diverse reefs of the St. John’s group are located far to the south, behind Port Berenice and belong to the largest reef plateau north of Port Sudan.
• The spectacular underwater life here is well worth the long journey. The reef walls are bursting with life: Huge fan and soft corals, caves and overhangs are just as much a part of it as the humphead parrotfish, which is found in the northern Red Sea and can grow up to 1.80 meters long! Up to eight different shark species such as thresher sharks, schools of hammerheads, tiger sharks and even oceanic white tip are regularly encountered here. Wonderfully overgrown reef tops with lots of “small stuff” provide a change to the spectacular “blue water dives”!
• After arrival in Hurghada or Marsa Alam, transfer to the ship in Port Ghaleb, dinner and departure the next morning

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.