Brothers, Daedalus & Elphinstone (8 Days / 7 Nights - 18 Dives)
Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, very popular, wall diving
Dive sites and activities: Big Brother, Little Brother, Daedalus Reef and Elphinstone
Day 1
The Sea Serpent Contessa uses 2 departure ports: Hurghada and Port Ghalib. In either scenario, embarkation may take place any time on the first day late afternoon onwards. for itineraries departing from Hurghada you will be met on arrival at Hurghada airport, be given assistance with visa on arrival procedures, and then transferred by air-conditioned minivan to Hurghada. The transfer takes around 20 minutes. For itineraries departing from Port Ghalib you may fly into either Hurghada or Marsa Alam. The transfer to Port Ghalib from Hurghada airport takes 3 hours. Upon embarkation you will be welcomed on board and given a boat and cruise briefing. After being assigned, and settling into, your cabin you can get to know your fellow divers over the first night’s dinner. Contessa departs port on the morning of day 2.
Days 2-7
Brother Islands, Daedalus Reef and Elphinstone is a popular route for experienced Red Sea divers, especially photographers and lovers of sharks. Photographers will appreciate the colourful fans and corals on the reefs and drop-offs. There are great smaller subjects around including octopus. Frogfish, lionfish, nudibranchs and countless schools of fish. Larger creatures include turtles, Napoleon wrasses and manta rays. Shark lovers will appreciate threshers, oceanic whitetips, hammerheads, whitetips and whale sharks.
Most diving days on this cruise will feature 3 dives. The day of disembarkation is the exception, with normally 2 (or perhaps 3) dives before returning to port.
Each day’s dining includes pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. There may even be time for some diving! Meals are served buffet-style with waiter assistance. Your hot breakfast includes eggs, sausages, toast, cereal, pastries, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. Cuisine is chiefly international fare but you will also be treated to a few Egyptian and Arabic specialties. Fresh fish, roast chicken, pasta, rice, salads and soups will help to keep the hunger pangs at bay. Snacks are also available if you do get peckish between dives. These include fresh sliced fruit, cookies and pizza.
Day 8
On the final morning you can breakfast at leisure, and say goodbye to your new friends! Disembarkation is scheduled then, when you will be transferred to the airport.
Red Sea North, Wrecks, Tiran & Dahab (8 Days / 7 Nights - 21 Dives)
Trip highlights: turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, drift diving, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving
Dive sites and activities: Dahab, Ras Mohamed, Thistlegorm, Dunraven. Abu Nuhas wrecks (Giannis D, Carnatic, Kimon M, Chrisoula K), Rosalie Moeller, Strait of Tiran, Hurghada reefs
Day 1
The Sea Serpent Contessa uses 2 departure ports: Hurghada and Port Ghalib. In either scenario, for itineraries departing from Hurghada you will be met on arrival at Hurghada airport, be given assistance with visa on arrival procedures, and then transferred by air-conditioned minivan to Hurghada. The transfer takes around 20 minutes. For itineraries departing from Port Ghalib you may fly into either Hurghada or Marsa Alam. The transfer to Port Ghalib from Hurghada airport takes 3 hours. Upon embarkation you will be welcomed on board and given a boat and cruise briefing. After being assigned, and settling into, your cabin you can get to know your fellow divers over the first night’s dinner. Contessa departs port on the morning of day 2.
Days 2-7
This Red Sea cruise route will take you to dive Abu Nuhas’s 4 wrecks. These are 4 ships that met their watery end at this, the most dangerous reef in the Red Sea. More boats have sunk here than anywhere else. You will also dive Rosalie Moeller and the famous SS Thistlegorm - the most famous of all the Red Sea wrecks. This ship sank after being hit by German military while on a mission to deliver to British troops a cargo of ammunition and vehicles. You can still see much of this intact and tethered to the wreck - a fascinating experience.
You will also dive in the Blue Hole of Dahab and in the Ras Mohamed National Park. Finning past the bright gorgonians and soft corals you will see schools of snapper, trevally and tuna. This diver’s paradise also promises crocodilefish, blue-spotted stingrays, scorpionfish and turtles. You can also dive the Straits of Tiran’s 4 famous reefs: Jackson, Thomas, Gordon, and Woodhouse) where nutrient-dense currents bring in meaty pelagics.
Most diving days on this cruise will feature 4 dives. The day of disembarkation is the exception, with normally 2 (or perhaps 3) dives before returning to port.
Each day’s dining includes pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. There may even be time for some diving! Meals are served buffet-style with waiter assistance. Your hot breakfast includes eggs, sausages, toast, cereal, pastries, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. Cuisine is chiefly international fare but you will also be treated to a few Egyptian and Arabic specialties. Fresh fish, roast chicken, pasta, rice, salads and soups will help to keep the hunger pangs at bay. Snacks are also available if you do get peckish between dives. These include fresh sliced fruit, cookies and pizza.
Day 8
On the final morning you can breakfast at leisure, and say goodbye to your new friends! Disembark and then you will be transferred to the airport.
Red Sea North, Wrecks & Brothers (8 Days / 7 Nights - 18 Dives)
Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, shark action, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving
Dive sites and activities: Big Brother (Aida II, Numidia), Little Brother, Thistlegorm, Abu Nuhas wrecks (Giannis D, Carnatic, Kimon M, Chrisoula K), Rosalie Moeller, Hurghada reefs
Day 1
The Sea Serpent Contessa uses 2 departure ports: Hurghada and Port Ghalib. In either scenario, embarkation may take place any time on the first day after 17:00 hrs. for itineraries departing from Hurghada you will be met on arrival at Hurghada airport, be given assistance with visa on arrival procedures, and then transferred by air-conditioned minivan to Hurghada. The transfer takes around 20 minutes. For itineraries departing from Port Ghalib you may fly into either Hurghada or Marsa Alam. The transfer to Port Ghalib from Hurghada airport takes 3 hours. Upon embarkation you will be welcomed on board and given a boat and cruise briefing. After being assigned, and settling into, your cabin you can get to know your fellow divers over the first night’s dinner. Contessa departs port on the morning of day 2.
Days 2-7
This Red Sea cruise allows you to have several dives at the famous Brother Islands, 2 undersea mounts rising from the depths. They offer breathtaking drift diving with a huge variety of pelagics. Here there are walls are covered in black corals, soft corals and gorgonian seafans. Keep an eye out in the blue for big tuna, schools of trevallies and snapper. Sharks present may include: scalloped hammerheads, grey reef, silvertip, silky and oceanic whitetip sharks. Mantas are frequently spotted in these waters, particularly during summer. This itinerary will also feature dives on the wreck Aida II, an Egyptian supply vessel, and the Numidia, a cargo ship lying in the shallows off Big Brother Island. They have both been taken over by encrusting sponges, and soft and hard corals and are very memorable sites.
This Red Sea cruise route will take you to dive Abu Nuhas’s 4 wrecks. These are 4 ships that met their watery end at this, the most dangerous reef in the Red Sea. More boats have sunk here than anywhere else. You will also dive Rosalie Moeller and the famous SS Thistlegorm – the most famous of all the Red Sea wrecks. This ship sank after being hit by German military while on a mission to deliver to British troops a cargo of ammunition and vehicles. You can still see much of this intact and tethered to the wreck – a fascinating experience.
Most diving days on this cruise will feature 3 or 4 dives. The day of disembarkation is the exception, with normally 2 (or perhaps 3) dives before returning to port.
Each day’s dining includes pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. There may even be time for some diving! Meals are served buffet-style with waiter assistance. Your hot breakfast includes eggs, sausages, toast, cereal, pastries, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. Cuisine is chiefly international fare but you will also be treated to a few Egyptian and Arabic specialties. Fresh fish, roast chicken, pasta, rice, salads and soups will help to keep the hunger pangs at bay. Snacks are also available if you do get peckish between dives. These include fresh sliced fruit, cookies and pizza.
Day 8
On the final morning you can breakfast at leisure, and say goodbye to your new friends! Disembarkation is scheduled for between 10:00 and 12:00 hrs when you will be transferred to the airport.
Red Sea North & Wrecks (8 Days / 7 Nights - 21 Dives)
Trip highlights: dolphins, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, drift diving, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving
Dive sites and activities: Ras Mohamed, Thistlegorm, Dunraven. Abu Nuhas wrecks (Giannis D, Carnatic, Kimon M, Chrisoula K), Rosalie Moeller. Hurghada reefs
Day 1
The Sea Serpent Contessa uses 2 departure ports: Hurghada and Port Ghalib. In either scenario, embarkation may take place any time on the first day after 17:00 hrs. for itineraries departing from Hurghada you will be met on arrival at Hurghada airport, be given assistance with visa on arrival procedures, and then transferred by air-conditioned minivan to Hurghada. The transfer takes around 20 minutes. For itineraries departing from Port Ghalib you may fly into either Hurghada or Marsa Alam. The transfer to Port Ghalib from Hurghada airport takes 3 hours. Upon embarkation you will be welcomed on board and given a boat and cruise briefing. After being assigned, and settling into, your cabin you can get to know your fellow divers over the first night’s dinner. Contessa departs port on the morning of day 2.
Days 2-7
This Red Sea cruise route will take you to dive Abu Nuhas’s 4 wrecks. These are 4 ships that met their watery end at this, the most dangerous reef in the Red Sea. More boats have sunk here than anywhere else. You will also dive Rosalie Moeller and the famous SS Thistlegorm – the most famous of all the Red Sea wrecks. This ship sank after being hit by German military while on a mission to deliver to British troops a cargo of ammunition and vehicles. You can still see much of this intact and tethered to the wreck – a fascinating experience.
On this cruise, you will experience the rich walls of the Ras Mohamed National Park. Finning past the bright gorgonians and soft corals you will see schools of snapper, trevally and tuna. This diver’s paradise also promises crocodilefish, blue-spotted stingrays, scorpionfish and turtles.
Most diving days on this cruise will feature 3 or 4 dives. The day of disembarkation is the exception, with normally 2 (or perhaps 3) dives before returning to port.
Each day’s dining includes pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. There may even be time for some diving! Meals are served buffet-style with waiter assistance. Your hot breakfast includes eggs, sausages, toast, cereal, pastries, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. Cuisine is chiefly international fare but you will also be treated to a few Egyptian and Arabic specialties. Fresh fish, roast chicken, pasta, rice, salads and soups will help to keep the hunger pangs at bay. Snacks are also available if you do get peckish between dives. These include fresh sliced fruit, cookies and pizza.
Day 8
On the final morning you can breakfast at leisure, and say goodbye to your new friends! Disembarkation is scheduled for between 10:00 and 12:00 hrs when you will be transferred to the airport.
Red Sea North, Wrecks & Tiran Straits (8 Days / 7 Nights - 21 Dives)
Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, drift diving, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving
Dive sites and activities: Ras Mohamed, Straits of Tiran, Thistlegorm, Dunraven. Abu Nuhas wrecks (Giannis D, Carnatic, Kimon M, Chrisoula K), Rosalie Moeller, Hurghada reefs
Day 1
The Sea Serpent Contessa uses 2 departure ports: Hurghada and Port Ghalib. In either scenario, embarkation may take place any time on the first day after 17:00 hrs. for itineraries departing from Hurghada you will be met on arrival at Hurghada airport, be given assistance with visa on arrival procedures, and then transferred by air-conditioned minivan to Hurghada. The transfer takes around 20 minutes. For itineraries departing from Port Ghalib you may fly into either Hurghada or Marsa Alam. The transfer to Port Ghalib from Hurghada airport takes 3 hours. Upon embarkation you will be welcomed on board and given a boat and cruise briefing. After being assigned, and settling into, your cabin you can get to know your fellow divers over the first night’s dinner. Contessa departs port on the morning of day 2.
Days 2-7
This Red Sea cruise route will take you to dive Abu Nuhas’s 4 wrecks. These are 4 ships that met their watery end at this, the most dangerous reef in the Red Sea. More boats have sunk here than anywhere else. You will also dive Rosalie Moeller and the famous SS Thistlegorm - the most famous of all the Red Sea wrecks. This ship sank after being hit by German military while on a mission to deliver to British troops a cargo of ammunition and vehicles. You can still see much of this intact and tethered to the wreck – a fascinating experience.
On this cruise, you will experience the rich walls of the Ras Mohamed National Park. Finning past the bright gorgonians and soft corals you will see schools of snapper, trevally and tuna. This diver’s paradise also promises crocodilefish, blue-spotted stingrays, scorpionfish and turtles. You can also dive the Straits of Tiran’s 4 famous reefs: Jackson, Thomas, Gordon, and Woodhouse) where nutrient-dense currents bring in meaty pelagics.
Most diving days on this cruise will feature 3 or 4 dives. The day of disembarkation is the exception, with normally 2 (or perhaps 3) dives before returning to port.
Each day’s dining includes pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. There may even be time for some diving! Meals are served buffet-style with waiter assistance. Your hot breakfast includes eggs, sausages, toast, cereal, pastries, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. Cuisine is chiefly international fare but you will also be treated to a few Egyptian and Arabic specialties. Fresh fish, roast chicken, pasta, rice, salads and soups will help to keep the hunger pangs at bay. Snacks are also available if you do get peckish between dives. These include fresh sliced fruit, cookies and pizza.
Day 8
On the final morning you can breakfast at leisure, and say goodbye to your new friends! Disembarkation is scheduled for between 10:00 and 12:00 hrs when you will be transferred to the airport.
Brothers & Elphinstone (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)
Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, very popular, wall diving
Dive sites and activities: Ras Turombi, Big Brother, Little Brother, Aida II wreck, Numidia wreck, Elphinstone, Marsa Shoona, Abu Dabbab
Day 1
The Sea Serpent Contessa uses 2 departure ports: Hurghada and Port Ghalib. In either scenario, embarkation may take place any time on the first day late afternoon onwards. for itineraries departing from Hurghada you will be met on arrival at Hurghada airport, be given assistance with visa on arrival procedures, and then transferred by air-conditioned minivan to Hurghada. The transfer takes around 20 minutes. For itineraries departing from Port Ghalib you may fly into either Hurghada or Marsa Alam. The transfer to Port Ghalib from Hurghada airport takes 3 hours. Upon embarkation you will be welcomed on board and given a boat and cruise briefing. After being assigned, and settling into, your cabin you can get to know your fellow divers over the first night’s dinner. Contessa departs port on the morning of day 2.
Days 2-7
Brother Islands and Elphinstone are popular locations for experienced Red Sea divers, especially photographers and lovers of sharks. Photographers will appreciate the colourful fans and corals on the reefs and drop-offs. There are great smaller subjects around including octopus. Frogfish, lionfish, nudibranchs and countless schools of fish. Larger creatures include turtles, Napoleon wrasses and manta rays. Shark lovers will appreciate threshers, oceanic whitetips, hammerheads, whitetips and whale sharks.
Most diving days on this cruise will feature 3 dives. The day of disembarkation is the exception, with normally 2 (or perhaps 3) dives before returning to port.
Each day’s dining includes pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. There may even be time for some diving! Meals are served buffet-style with waiter assistance. Your hot breakfast includes eggs, sausages, toast, cereal, pastries, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. Cuisine is chiefly international fare but you will also be treated to a few Egyptian and Arabic specialties. Fresh fish, roast chicken, pasta, rice, salads and soups will help to keep the hunger pangs at bay. Snacks are also available if you do get peckish between dives. These include fresh sliced fruit, cookies and pizza.
Day 8
On the final morning you can breakfast at leisure, and say goodbye to your new friends! Disembarkation is scheduled then, when you will be transferred to the airport.
[Information is best estimate in ideal circumstances and subject to changes beyond our control. The itinerary is a guide only and may be adapted to best suit the weather, tides, currents, availability and other prevailing events. Price is for the cruise, not for an exact number of dives].
