CCR / OC TEC / REC DEEP SOUTH SAFARI, EGYPT

4. – 11. May 2024

Daedalus, St. John’s, Fury Shoal

 

 

 

 

 

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Boat and schedule

Sea-Echo 2

  • built 2007
  • renewed 2012
  • renewed 2022
  • dimensions 38 m long, 8.5 m wide
  • max 26 PAX in 13 cabins (our price is based our rule that we take max 22 on this safari)
  • lower deck 10 cabin all twin cabins
  • upper deck 3 cabins, open saloon and sun deck
  • main deck has dive deck, saloon and the restaurant
  • top deck has open sun deck

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Schedule

  • 4.5. Arrival and check in board
  • 5.5. Diving Shaab Marsa Alam and Gota Marsa Alam
  • 6.5. Daedalus 3 dives
  • 7.5. St. John’s: Habili Ali, Gota Gebira, Dangerous Reef
  • 8.5. St. John’s: Habili Jafar, Small Gota, St. John’s Cave 
  • 9.5. Sataya: Sataya South, Shaab Maksour, Shaab Claudia
  • 10.5. Wadi el Gimal, Shaab Sharm
  • 11.5. Check out and fly home

Price / PAX

1300 EUR lower deck
1400 EUR upper + main deck

Incl.

  • Full board accommodation
  • Transfer
  • Taxes, permissions
  • Dive guide
  • 12L tank and weights
  • Wi Fi

Not incl.

  • Inter Visa 24€ (visa on arrival)
  • Marine Park Fee 60€
  • Government Route Fee 50€
  • Staff tips 100€ per person
  • Nitrox single tank 80€
  • Sidemount Nitrox 150€
  • Scooter rent 350€

10% sales tax’s on all prices.
Material sold /rented cash onboard by Black Tiger diving.

For Rebreather divers:

  • 2×3 ltr tanks 75€/week
  • Booster onboard
  • S80 tanks air or any gas you want in
  • Sofnolime 15€/kg
  • O2 fills and air top ups every day

Gas prices

  • Hel 0,100€R per liter
  • O2 0,040€ per liter

10% sales tax’s on all prices.
Material sold /rented cash onboard by Black Tiger diving.

PAYMENT

To guarantee your space on the safari, a deposit 500 EUR is due with the registration form. The remainder of your payment is due 4th March 2024. We reserve the right to re-sell any space that is not paid in full by this date.

Payment can be made by wire transfer in Euros. You are responsible to cover all transfer fees associated with your payments. We strongly recommend all divers to purchase travel insurance in case of unforeseen circumstances.

Click into the Dive Highlights!

DAEDALUS REEF

Daedalus Reef is a 400m long and 100m wide  standalone reef in the Egyptian Red Sea situated about 90 kilometers from Marsa Alam. There is a small artificial island in the center of the reef, which hosts a lighthouse constructed in 1863 and rebuilt in 1931. Daedalus reef is a well-known place for diving because of good chances to see pelagic fish, such as hammerhead sharks, and an abundance of corals. In the high season one can find many dive safari boats staying overnight, anchored to the reef.

ELPHINSTONE REEF

Elphinstone Reef is one of the most famous dive sites in the World and offers some of the best scuba diving in the Red Sea!

The Elphinstone reef is located 12km offshore and about 30km from Marsa Alam. This dive site is famous for its wonderful drift dives along deep steep walls. The coral is really great and unspoiled.The Elphinstone Reef is also famous for being one of the few places on Earth where you can dive with the Oceanic Whitetip Shark as well as Harmmerhead Sharks.

FURY SHOAL

Around 150km south of Marsa Alam, Fury Shoals is 30km long chain of dive sites offering coral pinnacles, lagoons, dropoff, drift dives, and a great chance for Dolphins, such as Sataya – dolphin reef a very large horseshoe reef. The distance from the east to the west side is more than 3km. The depth in the inner part ranges from 3m to 15m. It is very common to spot a pod of spinner dolphins. East site is mixed drop off, pinnacles, stony plateau, and coral garden.

Sataya South Wall dive is at depths over 100m.

SHAAB MAKSOUR

North-east of Fury Shoals is Shaab Maksour, a reef around 1,5 km long, surrounded by steep walls, it is similar to Elphinstone Reef and sightings of turtles, rays and sharks are known on the the north and south plateaus.

SHAAB SHARM

Shaab Sharm is located 40km south of Marsa Alam. Shaab Sharm is a kidney stone-shaped reef with sloping walls, at the east tip is a plateau covered by soft coral, arrange of hard coral. If you are lucky you can spot Manta and Oceanic sharks. Under the plateau is a large overhead cave at a depth of 50 m to 50 inside.

ST. JOHN

Offering the greatest diversity of diving Red Sea. It`s astonishing coral walls, coral garden, and caves.

Habili Ali is an oval shaped reef, its walls and ridges are full of beautiful coral and full of Marin life , Drift diving is the best way to admire the inlaid coral and reef fish living in the steep walls.
Gotta Soghair: small reef with the best drop off at the area, all the sides are slope off and droop off to deep, covered with soft coral, gorgonian and black coral growing on the walls. The south edge of the reef is full of hard coral and conical shaped coral, so it’s hard to step.
Dangerous Reef is the most south dive site at St. John area, it takes a diamond shape. The south tip of the diamond there is a sandy sloping bottom with hard coral down to 30 m. The main reef has some fissures making small tunnels, out of the tunnels east or west a good coral garden.
Dangerous reef is the best choice after the deep dives and also offer us shelter for the night and excellent night dive.
St John’s cave, an area where shallow cracks open up into small caverns, which natural light allow easy penetration, caves hang up at depth 3-8m.

DEEP SOUTH Gallery:

Numibia

Leaders:

Jari Toivonen will be the group leader.
He is an IANTD CCR Adv. Trimix Instructor and Examiner.
Read more about him HERE.

sayedbz

Sayed ‘Tiger’ Comaa is famous, well known instructor and tour leader.
He has 23 years exprerience of Egyptian and Sudanese Red Sea.
He got his nick name by spotting first ever seen Tiger shark in Charles Reefs back in 2003.