Egypt Liveaboard Diving Trips

One of the most rewarding liveaboard dive destinations is definitely Egypt. The country is a close distance from Europe, which makes it affordable even for budget divers, the best value for the money. Liveaboard diving in Egypt can be a good choice for divers of all levels of experience. You can be a novice with a new certification. Your first dives will definitely be memorable. Even if you’re an advanced diver, you will still find things to discover in Egypt. Even the most discerning divers will be delighted with the quality of diving, the variety of fish and coral species, the beautiful underwater scenery, the sheer walls, and the coral gardens.

Marine parks in Egypt provide a great opportunity to see big fish such as sharks and other pelagics and to see a sensational array of coral formations. Ras Mohammed, Brother Islands, Daedalus Reef, Zabargad, and Rocky Islands have been attracting divers for years. Although many of the dive sites can be visited during day-trip dives, they can be only thoroughly explored when diving from a liveaboard. The same can be said about the north of the Red Sea. This area is especially renowned for wreck diving, great ships, and their history that is still preserved. You still can see motorcycles, ammunition, and rifles on some wrecks.

For experienced divers who are interested in more difficult diving, Egypt can offer unique opportunities for technical diving. There are deep canyons, arches, and caves, many of which are not yet fully explored but are available for tech divers who have additional training and use the most modern technology

Egypt is blessed with hundreds of dive sites for every taste and level of experience. The Red Sea is considered to be one of the true underwater wonders, with numerous species of soft and hard coral and schools of fish. Big schools of different reef fish and areas where whitetip sharks, silvertips, gray reef sharks, thresher sharks, and hammerheads are most likely to be seen are located in the center area and in the south. Little Brother and Big Brother Islands are well known, as well as Daedalus Reef, Elphinstone, and many other dive sites. It’s also a good place to dive along the coral walls and reefs. The wrecks of Aida and Numidia are like the icing on the cake for diving here.

But if you are a true wreck diving enthusiast, head to the north of the Red Sea. Thistlegorm, a cargo ship that sank in the Suez Canal during one of the missions during WWII, was discovered many years ago by Jacques Cousteau. It is almost always included as the core of a northern trip. There is also the Abu Nuhas ship graveyard, where the shallower parts of the reef caused 4 other ships to wreck at different times: the Giannis D, Kimon K, Chrisoula K, and the oldest of all, the Carnatic, which sank in 1869. There is also a deep north Red Sea itinerary, which only starts from Sharm El-Sheikh and includes dive sites to the north of Sharm El-Sheikh and around Dahab (Bells, Blue Hole, Canyon) and some other dive sites in the Gulf of Aqaba. Close to the Sudanese border, you will find another Red Sea treasure - the St. John’s caves and caverns. The dive sites have unique underwater landscapes and offer diving with extraordinary creatures like dugongs, mantas, Spanish dancers, and bumphead parrotfish. But what attracts the most divers here are the big pods of dolphins nearby