Elphinstone Brothers & Daedalus

On this fantastic diving safari you will visit Elphinstone, Brothers and Daedalus. The safari route is often called Simply the Best in Egypt and here the focus is on diving in the marine parks and reefs of Elphinstone, Brothers Islands and Daedalus. Two reef systems located in the middle of the Red Sea. Brothers Islands is a translation of the Arabic “El Akhawein” which means the two brothers. The marine park consists of two underwater mountains approximately 60 kilometers off the coast. The islands rise from great depths right up to the surface. Their characteristic lighthouses have warned many passing ships over the years of the dangers that lurk below the surface.

Diving here combines fantastic wall dives with wreck dives. The walls are covered with anemones, gorgonians and sponges. There are also lots of colourful soft and hard corals and Brothers attracts a large number of fish. The fish in turn attract large marine pelagic species. There are great opportunities to see large tunas, barracudas and snappers and they are sometimes accompanied by hammerhead sharks, silky sharks, whitetip sharks and sometimes even mantas. There is also the possibility of seeing the more unusual thresher shark here.

On the reef's northern plateau is the freighter Numidia. She lies almost completely vertical with the bow into the reef and after her many years on the bottom, she has almost become part of the reef and multitudes of reef fish and soft corals have made their home in this nearly century-old wreck. The wreck starts at a depth of about ten meters and drags down to 80 minutes. Another wreck you can experience here is Aida. She rests at between 25 and 60 m and sank about 40 years ago. Here, too, quantities of reef fish and soft corals have moved in.