Date: 17. May 2025 - 24. May 2025
Free places: 16
Start and end of the tour: Hurghada – Marsa Alam
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Liveaboard Egypt BDE tour: Brothers, Daedalus, Elphinstone
The so-called “BDE tour” is the classic marine park tour. It is beautiful and offers plenty of potential for encounters with big fish. The dives are sometimes a little more challenging due to the current at the exposed dive sites. This tour is therefore recommended for experienced divers.
This diving safari can be perfectly combined with the following week to form a 2-week “Best of the Red Sea” tour! The second week leads to the deep south to the St. Johns Reefs. Please enter your interest in the text field in the booking inquiry – this results in a price advantage of 330 € compared to the two individual tours. If only guests are booked for both tours (like until now), we save the “intermediate day” in the marina.
The dive spots:
The Brother Islands are two small islands in the middle of the Red Sea, Big Brother and Little Brother. They are undoubtedly among the best diving spots in the world and are known for their impressive coral growth, countless schools of fish, but especially for large fish and sharks. The Brothers offer an immense density of marine life in a very small area. Sponges, anemones, all kinds of hard and soft corals in an incredible variety of colors and shapes adorn the walls. Gray reef sharks, thresher sharks, hammerhead sharks or oceanic whitetip sharks – a lot is possible here. The Brothers also have two shipwrecks to offer: “Numidia” and the “Aida”.
Daedalus Reef is located 180 km south of the Brother Islands. The reef is surrounded by a steep wall and has a plateau on the south side. Whole schools of hammerhead sharks are often spotted on the north wall, where conditions are sometimes a little rougher! Dolphins can also keep us company here. On the southern plateau, in addition to occasional and overwhelming thresher shark visits, impressive and diverse schools of fusiliers, surgeonfish and mackerel await us.
Elphinstone is also a very spectacular reef with some bizarre currents. Beautiful plateaus, breathtaking steep walls covered with gorgonians, wire corals, black corals and soft corals make the diver’s heart beat faster. Longimani and barracudas regularly pass by. With a bit of luck, you might even spot a gray shark or a tiger shark.
Included Services: see Safari Info
Important: A minimum of 50 dives is required in Egyptian marine protected areas.
Included services for a 2-week tour:
The safari price includes:
- Transfer from the nearest airport to the ship and back
- 14 nights accommodation in ½ double cabin
or 13 nights accommodation in ½ double cabin and 1 night in a hotel (depending on the ship’s tour schedule) - Full board – 3 main meals plus snacks
- Tea, coffee, water, juices, soft drinks
- 13 days diving with up to 4 dives per day, last day: 2 dives
- Nitrox 28-32% (for Nitrox-certified divers)
- 12 liter aluminum scuba tank, weights
- Local guides
Additional costs on site:
- Additional costs package
(diving and reef fees, marina fees, fuel surcharges): 335 €
As of 10/2024, subject to price increases by the responsible authorities - Tips (recommendation approx. 100 EUR per week per person)
- As required:
Surcharge for single cabin: 50%, for suites 60%
Alcoholic drinks (according to price list on board)
15 liter bottle, rental equipment (35 € per item per week)