Brother Islands

One of the best diving destinations in the world, Big Brother and the Little Brother - are two small isolated islands that rise out of the deep water in the middle of the sea.

Little Brother The walls drop into deep water and are covered with sponges, anemones and all sorts of soft coral in a variety of colors and shapes. Marine life is prolific and it’s usual to encounter sharks in the blue: Hammerheads, the rare Thresher Shark, Silvertip and oceanic White Tips can be seen. On the reef expect to see Grey reefs and White tips.

 About one km north of Little Brother is the Big Brother it’s walls are teeming with life. The wreck of the "NUMIDIA"  lies on the reef at the northern side of the island between 10 and 80m. This 150m long ship sunk 100 years ago and is now completely covered with both hard and soft corals and gorgonias. Sometimes can be difficult to dive due to the exposed position.

At the NW side of the island you will find another wreck: the "AIDA". This 82 m long steam ship sunk 1957. The remaining pieces of the wreck are scattered all over the reef and just a small section of the hull can be found between 30 and 60 m. It is nicely overgrown and worth to visit. Because of strong current and possibly high waves it is not easy to dive at the Brothers.

The Salem Express lies outside Safaga harbour. Tragically this ship hit the reef and sank on its way back from Mecca in 1991 officially carrying 650 persons. Unofficially it may have been many more. We do know that only 180 people survived. The ship, which is 101m long, lies on her side in 32m of water. The shallowest point is along the side at 10-12m for most of its length. It is forbidden to enter the ship. Many bodies still remain deep inside as the ship as it was decide it was too dangerous to remove them.

Panorama Reef is a huge coral formation - its walls dropping to over 100 meters with numerous grottos and overhangs, gorgonians and soft corals. Marine life is abundant with schools of surgeon fish, barracuda, unicorn fish. It’s also possible to see White tip sharks, Grey reef sharks, eagle rays and turtles.

Abou Kafan is a long, narrow reef barrier featuring a plateau to both the north and the south, offering superb wall diving with soft and black coral, giant fan coral and gorgonians. Marine life abounds here with large tunas and barracudas and hundreds of the usually solitary glasseyes. Turtles are common and grey reefs and silvertips are seen occasionally with hammerheads usually cruising by in late summer.

Departing Hurghada, Port Galeb, Marsa Alam.