“Sunken history”

North & Wrecks

Minimum certification: Open Water*Departure from Hurghada7 nightsUp to 20 dives

A week for lovers of shipwrecks and the great reefs of Sinai: Ras Mohammed, the Strait of Tiran, the Dunraven, the Thistlegorm and the ship graveyard of Abu Nuhas.

Day 1

Arrival, check-in, briefing and dinner. Night in port.

Day 2

Check dive, second dive and night dive. Sailing to Ras Mohammed.

Day 3

Shark & Yolanda Reef, Shark Observatory and night dive at Ras Umm El Sid. Sailing to Tiran.

Day 4

Jackson Reef, Wood House, Gordon Reef and night dive. Sailing to Beacon Rock.

Day 5

Dunraven and SS Thistlegorm. Sailing to Abu Nuhas.

Day 6

Giannis D, Carnatic, Ulysses and night dive. Sailing to the Hurghada area.

Day 7

Sha'ab El Erg and Careless Reef. Return to port.

Day 8

Breakfast and check-out.

Dive sites

National park · reefs

Ras Mohammed

Egypt’s first protected park (1983), which has grown from 97 to 480 km². Abundant, colourful marine life at Shark & Yolanda Reef, Jack Fish Alley and Shark Observatory. One of the best areas of the northern Red Sea.

Reefs

Strait of Tiran

Jackson Reef, with spectacular, very photogenic coral walls; Wood House, with coral gardens and turtles; and Gordon Reef, with a great variety of fish.

Wreck

Dunraven

A 19th-century steamship next to Beacon Rock, at the tip of Sinai, surrounded by abundant life.

Wreck · about 30 m

SS Thistlegorm

A British cargo ship sunk in 1941, in the middle of the Second World War. Trucks, motorbikes and military equipment are still in its holds, covered in coral. You dive it outside and inside, among schools of fish and turtles. One of the best wrecks in the world.

Wrecks

Abu Nuhas and Gubal

The ship graveyard of the Red Sea:

Giannis D (about 28 m): a Greek cargo ship that sank in 1983, very well preserved. Sharks and colourful fish.
Carnatic (about 30 m): a steamship that sank in 1869, with remains of pottery and lots of life.
Ulysses: a British steamship that sank in 1887 next to Gubal island, with corals and turtles.

Reef · Hurghada

Sha'ab El Erg (Dolphin House)

A large horseshoe-shaped reef north of Hurghada, with coral gardens. Famous because dolphins are often around.

Fauna: Turtles on the Thistlegorm, the Ulysses and at Wood House; schools of fish and sharks on the Giannis D.

See departures

* Your certification determines which dives and maximum depth you can do. To complete the full programme you need an Advanced certification or equivalent.

The route and dive sites may change depending on the weather, sea conditions or instructions from the captain and local authorities, always putting safety first.

Seven routes across the Red Sea