Brothers, Safaga and Elphinstone

A check dive, a practice zodiac dive, and a night dive should be made at dive sites close to your departure port before moving on to the marine parks on your Red Sea liveaboard.

Brother Islands. Two islands located 60 km offshore and 140 km south of Hurghada make the northernmost part of Egypt's offshore marine park. The larger, Big Brother Island, is 400 meters long and features a breathtaking plateau on the southeast corner, which is famous for coral mountains as well as grey reefs and thresher sharks. Big Brother also hosts a lighthouse built back in 1883. Two interesting shipwrecks lie on the western part of the island, one of them positioned almost leaning on the edge of the reef. The Numidia shipwreck is the most impressive of them all. The large cargo ship that succumbed to the depths in the year nineteen hundred and one; now she lies thirty-two to one hundred meters off the island’s point, her hulk draped in soft corals and occasionally inhabited by the large sea-faring fish. The smaller Aida wreck is much shallower and located at a depth of thirty and sixty-five meters, it was a supply ship of the lighthouse authorities that sunk in 1957 because of heavy storms. Although, Small Brother Island is slightly over 200 meters long it hosts an amazing number and variety of marine life. There are amazing overhangs to explore, an incredible variety of hard and soft corals, and a pristine forest of fan corals. The pelagic zone is the main attraction, with including seasonal grey reef, hammerhead, and oceanic white tip sharks appearing sporadically.