BROTHERS ISLANDS
The Brothers Islands are situated 67 km offshore east of El Quseir and south East of Safaga. Brothers Islands -part of the Marine Park, they offer breathtaking underwater scenery, wall diving along their entire perimeter and the possibility to spot a wide variety of pelagics. The smaller island covers an area of 0.1 square km, while the other one covers 0.3 square km. A great situation to meet pelagic and big fishes!To dive the Brothers Islands you have to join liveaboard safari boats mostly starting from Hurghada or Marsa Galeb. The cruise will last one week during which you will spend between 2 to 4 days ( depending on weather conditions) in the Brothers.
The 2 Islands are only 1 km apart. Together they offer more than 12 different dive sites. The dive sites are mostly wall dives and strong drop offs. Big Brother have on the North west side some ship wrecks. The Aida II an Italian ship which was carrying troops one night in 1957 when it hit Big Brother. A large wreck with much intact supers tructure, its shallowest point is at 15 m. and ends below 45m. There are other older wrecks scattered at depths between 9 and 40 meters The famouse Numidia is to find in the Northern tip of the Island. Often there is a strong current running straight onto the wreck. The wreck starts at a depth of 8m, she lies on the steep drop-off at an almost vertical angle and the soft coral covers it nicley until 55m. The stern is raised and provides a nice rounded poop deck below which the large propeller is found at a depth of about 80m. Experienced technical divers who'd like to dive the stern should have a good plan for the decompression stop as the current can be strong in this area!
At walls of Brothers Islands you can see: big tuna, shoals of jack fish and snappers cruise in the blue accompanied by hammerhead, grey reef, silver-tip, silky and oceanic white-tip sharks and mantas. The thresher shark, an oceanic species, very rarely spotted close to reefs, circles the walls of the Brothers on a regular basis. The huge and spectacular moon fish can also be observed near the reefs. Brothers Islands are most of unforgettables dives sites on the Red Sea.
Visit them once - you will be come back again as soon as possible to visit unique underwater at the Marina Parks of Egyptian Red Sea.
