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Anemon Tour's first underwater photograpy contest! A friendly competition with huge prizes...

BDE Brother's - Daedalus - Elphinstone Red Sea Liveaboard Diving Safari.

This safari trip departing from Port Ghalib offers a rich adventure with some exciting dive sites: Brother Islands, Daedalus Reef, Fury Shoals, Elphinstone, Safaga area's reefs.
The chance to meet sharks is very high and wrecks are as well on the itinerary with the Numidia and Aida.
The highlights of this cruise are multiple as you will visit some of the mythical reefs and wrecks of the Red Sea: caves, breathtaking drop offs, coral gardens, pelagic hunters and swarms of small fish and shipwrecks as well!

There is a high possibility that you will meet different kind of sharks especially Hammer Heads, Treasure, longimanus and Manta Rays.

The most exciting part of this trip is the "Anemon Tour's 1st Underwater Photography Contest". 

The prizes are divided into 3 categories:

1st Category: Wide Angle

Prize1 week liveaboard in the Red Sea South with Hammerhead Fleet and the flights with Turkish Airlines from Istanbul - Hurghada.

2nd Category: Fish

Prize: 1 week liveaboard in Sudan with Cassiopeia Safari

3rd Category: Macro

Prize: 1 week liveboard in Turkey - Bozburun with JD Okyanus Liveaboard

Other Prizes: 

Seafrogs action camera video light

Kinetics super Q eLED 

Ikealite Tshirt

3 days 6 dives in Karaburun - Turkey

2 days 4 dives in Kemer - Turkey

 

 

What To Expect

Day 1
  • Pick up from airport or local hotel
  • Transfer to the boat
  • Check in around 5 pm
  • Meet the crew and welcome briefing
  • Boat will departure early next morning, this can change and be before that time
  • Captain has last word in departure and arrival as it might be affected by weather conditions

 

Days 2-7 BDE

Brother Islands

  • The Brother Islands (El Akhawein) are the pinnacles of two undersea mountains rising from the depths of the abyss 300m deep and are located about 60 miles offshore.
  • Big Brother, which is easily identified with it’s lighthouse, is about 100 metres across and 400 metres in length, with two extremities to the east and west.
  • Little Brother lies about 800 metres east of Big Brother.
  • As part of the Marine Park Islands National Park, these islands offer stunning wall diving and a breath-taking display of colour with their rich variety of soft corals and gorgonians which cover the walls.
  • You will find large and small fish here in abundance; tuna, barracuda, shoals of snappers and jack fish, as well a hammerheads, silky and oceanic white tip sharks, even the occasional thresher shark and manta ray.
  • Sightings of the Grey Reef Shark are almost guaranteed on the North and South Plateaux of Small Brother.
  • For the wreck diver, the wrecks of the Aida II, an 82 m long Egyptian supply vessel that sank in 1957, and the Numidia, a cargo ship carrying locomotive spare parts to India, lie on the walls of the Big Brother.
  • Both are covered in a rich growth of soft and hard corals. Marine life includes a family of Napoleon Wrasse and Grey Reef Sharks.

Daedalus Reef

  • Daedalus Reef, also part of the Marine Park, is a large, oval reef with a lighthouse and is the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea.
  • Its deep walls and drop-offs offer some of the most spectacular diving to be found. Daedalus has mountainous, pristine, hard coral formations.
  • There is also a strong chance of spotting schooling Hammerheads, and grey reef sharks.

Elphinstone

  • Elphinstone, with its shear walls covered in soft corals, offers a likely encounter with Grey Reef Sharks circling on the plateaux and even Oceanic White Tip Sharks can be seen here for most of the year.
Day 8
  • Last day of the trip
  • Check out time is after breakfast until around 08:00 am
  • Transfer to the airport or local hotel

Inclusions & Exclusions

Include

  • Full board, including water, soft drinks,snaks, tea, coffee between the dives
  • Free WiFi (where there is connection)
  • Transfer from/to local hotels (round-trip, only on boat arrival & departure days)
  • Weight Belt/Weights/12lt Tank(s)
  • Dive guides
  • Dive insurance 
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  • Note: all listed prices are per person

Extras

National park fees and Egypt Visa: 170 EUR (per trip)

Flights to Hurghada or Port Ghalib

Additional Services

Equipment Rental
15 liter tanks
Nitrox max %32
Nitrox max %32 + 15 Lt
Marine Park Fees

Departure & Return

Turkish Airlines  TK702 24 May Istanbul - Hurghada  01:05 AM

Turkish Airlines  TK703 31 May Hurghada - Istanbul 03:50 AM

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1,350 EUR
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