Fury Shoals (8 Days / 7 Nights - 16 Dives)
Trip highlights: dolphins, manta rays, dugongs/manatees, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, very popular, wall diving
Dive sites and activities: Fury Shoals: Sha'ab Claudio, Malahi, Abu Galawa, Sataya; Marsa Alam
Day 1
The Seafari staff will welcome you at the arrival hall of Hurghada or Marsa Alam Airport. An air-conditioned van will take you to Port Ghalib where the Dolce Vita dive yacht is moored. The journey from Hurghada to Port Ghalib takes about 3 hours. Otherwise it’s only a few minutes to Port Ghalib from Marsa Alam Airport if you have landed there. Once onboard the liveaboard you will be met by the boat crew and the tour leader, who will assign you to your cabin and provide a briefing on boat safety and the upcoming week of activities. Enjoy your dinner in the air-conditioned saloon before going to bed; your diving will start tomorrow.
Core Days
The Fury Shoals is a vast reef system. Sha'ab Claudio is a classic dive with its famous swim-throughs and huge porites corals, Malahi with its mazes and friendly turtles, and Abu Galawa Soraya with its fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat smothered with glassfish. Sataya, with its resident spinner dolphin population, is a must for snorkelling between dives, as well as having some good underwater offerings.
3-4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea. A typical day will start with a morning dive at 7 am, breakfast at 8 am, 2nd dive at 10 am, lunch at noon, 3rd dive at 2 pm, snacks at 4 pm, night dive (once per week) at 7 pm. Dinner around at 8 pm.
Expect 3 delicious buffet meals every day in the air-conditioned dining room on the main deck. Breakfast includes a variety of choices: cereals, fresh fruit, fruit juices, bread and toast, pancakes, eggs (prepared on request) and of course coffee, tea and milk. Lunch and dinner will be a mix of local and international dishes cooked with the freshest ingredients. You can expect rice, noodles, soups, lots of fresh vegetables, various meat and fish dishes, bread and desserts. Snacks and hot and cold drinks are available 24 hours a day.
There will only 2 dives on the last day as the boat then sails back to port.
Day 8
Check out time is normally after a breakfast and farewells with the crew, before being transferred either to the airport or your local hotel.
[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].
