Northern Red Sea
The northern cruises include all those itineraries that necessitate a departure from Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh.
North Safari from Hurghada
North itinerary:
Giftun Islands - Gubal Islands - Sha'ab Ali ( Thistlegorm wreck) - Abu Nuhas ( Carnatic wreck)
South itinerary-Safaga Safari :
Giftun Islands-Abu Hashish Isl.-Panorama Reef-Abu-Kifan Reef-Sha'ab Shaer ( Salem Express wreck)
This itinerary combines the most famous wrecks in the northern Red Sea with stunning wall and hard coral garden reef diving.
Dive the famous four wrecks of Abu Nuhas, the Ships' Graveyard. This reef lies close to the ship-lane toward the Suez Canal and has claimed more ships than any other in the Red Sea. The wrecks are very scenic, covered in corals and they are fantastic for photography, especially the Carnatic, having sunk in 1869.
The very famous SS Thistlegorm and the recently discovered Rosalie Mueller are World War II wrecks and one of the highlights of this cruise. The SS Thistlegorm sunk in 1941, having been bombed by the Germans while on a mission to deliver a cargo of ammunition and war materials to the British troops in North Africa. The Rosalie Mueller, a British coal cargo, suffered the same demise only two days later.
This cruise will also take you to Ras Mohamed National Park at the tip of Sinai, famous for its breath-taking walls rich in soft and fan corals and populated with huge shoals of fish.
Two choices are provided, one southwards to the Safaga area, and the other in the direction of the Hurghada archipelago. The southern cruise provides fascinating underwater expeditions along the Panorama reef and the wreck of the Salem Express, and also includes the Middle reef and Abu Kefan, while the Hurghada archipelago cruise, which is probably the more beautiful of the two, provides underwater diving expeditions at Sha'ab El Erg, famous for its manta rays, and Shabrur Syul with its fabulous madreporic formations. It then continues to Umm Usk and from there to the wrecks at Abu Nuhas; the Giannis, Carnatic, Chrisoula and Kimon. The cruise almost always ends with a visit to the famous Thistlegorm wreck that was sunk just off the amazing reefs of Sha'ab Ali. The cruise includes a minimum of fifteen underwater diving expeditions, of which at least one or two are nocturnal.
