Red Sea Diving Safaris 
Aqua Red invites you to the spectacular underwater world of the Red Sea, where the desert meets the sea. It is truly one of the planet's most exotic and fascinating natural environments. For this, it is not surprising that the Red Sea is considered by many to offer the very best diving available in the marine world. The Red Sea attracts divers, photographers, marine scientists and vacationers from all over the world, hoping to experience and explore the incalculable wonders of the colorful, abundant marine life and the Red Sea's lavish coral reefs.

The Red Sea covers approximately 200,000 sq. km., about 1/5 of Egypt, and extends a distance of 1050km along the western coast of the Red Sea from south of Suez to the Sudanese border. The exceptional living reef stretches way out into the sea, forming elaborate systems of caves, lagoons, gardens and plateaus.
Aqua Red has the associations and facilities to accommodate requests from Hurghada throughout the South Red Sea. From a snorkeling trip to a week long live aboard, Aqua Red is ready and equipped to handle all your sea excursions.
All our services comply with the standards of the International Diving Organizations, PADI and CMAS.
Additional services include the Daily Boat Dive, PADI training courses, and Live Aboard Trips.
Most boats trips, PADI courses and special dive excursions are kept to a small group so every participant receives the maximum attention from the dive guides in underwater exploration and in safety. The staff is trained to offer a wide range of diving experiences for the beginner as well as the expert. Guides and instructors are as diversified as our dives. These include wreck dive, night dive, drift dive, deep-sea dive and photographic.
Scuba divers are not the only ones to this wondrous world. Snorkel enthusiasts are fortunate as many of the reefs are reachable within a couple of meters. Half and full days trips are available.
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Daily scuba packages in Hurghada include a full day on the boat, scuba rental equipment, two tank dives, lunch with soft drinks, roundtrip transfers from hotel to harbor, and a trained dive master and/or instructor. Two different dive sites are visited every day. Package rates start at 35 euros per person. Multiple day dives are discounted. |
Aqua Red and PADI welcome the opportunity to expand your diving experience and career
Full comprehensive training programs are available that include the Introduction to Dive, the Open Water Course, the Advanced Program, the Rescue and Medic First Aid, and the Dive Master. Let us know your level of interest and we will forward a full price list for your consideration.
Always available throughout the year are our SPECIAL group rates and Holiday packages.
Check with us directly for those exceptional savings on various packages.
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Daily scuba packages in Quseir and the surrounding areas: Safaga, Sharm en Naga, and Marsa Alam include scuba rental equipment, one tank beach dives, lunch with soft drink, roundtrip transfers from hotel to the sites, and a trained divemaster and/or instructor. Package rates start at 55 euros per person. Multiple day dives are discounted. A variety of dive packages are available in diverse area of the Red Sea. |
Our Boats Discover the underwater diversity of the Red Sea with Aqua Red. It is here that scuba enthusiasts experience the depths of underwater exploration.
ART use a fleet of boats that cruise regularly onto the shimmering waters of the Red Sea.
All boats have the basic facilities, which include a full crew (captain, mechanic, and kitchen staff), private cabins, dining areas, spacious salons equipped with bar, TV, and stereo system, 110/220V recharging panel, air compressor, a spacious sundeck, and the divers platform.
A brief description of a few of them:
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Golden One is a 26-bedded boat with 5 shared bathrooms.
Length: 33 m
Width: 7.5 m
Air-Conditioning
TV, Video, DVD, CD, Tape Player
Engines: 2 x 480HP Caterpillar
Generators: 2 x 42kw Perkins
Compressors: 2 x Coltri-Sub MCH13
Nitrox Production by UBS EANx Membrane
Life jackets/Life rafts, Oxygen, and First Aid
Hull: Traditional Wood Construction
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Speedy 5 is a 16-bedded boat with 4 shared bathrooms.
Length: 27m
Width: 7.0m
Air-Conditioning
VHF Radio, Echo Sounder, GPS Radar, Radio Cassette, TV and Video
Engines: 2X 350 H.P. CAT
Generator: 1 X 20Kw &1 X 4Kw
Life jackets/Life rafts, Oxygen, and First Aid
Hull: Traditional Wood Construction
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Amelia, refitted in 2006, is an 18-bedded boat w/9 en-suite cabins
Length: 31m
Width: 7.5m
Air-Conditioning
Audio/visual T/V, DVD, video and CD/tape player
Water 13t fresh water
Engines: 2 x 500 HP MAN
Generators: 1 x 40kw,1 x 50kw (Perkins)
Compressors: 2 x Bauer Mariner 200 l/min
Zodiac 2 x 4.85 m zodiacs with 30 HP outboard engines
Safety Life jackets, life rafts, fire alarm, oxygen and first aid
Nitrox: Nitrox membrane system on board
Communication VHF Radio, DSC (area I and II), Satellite EPIRB
Navigation equipment Radar, GPS, echo sounder and compass |
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Most safari trips in the South Red Sea include the Brothers Islands
The Brother Islands are located 32 miles northeast of Al Quseir in the middle of the Red Sea. The two small islands are named 'El Akhawein', which in Arabic means the Brothers. These exposed "islands" are the tips of two massive reef pillars that rise from the sea. The Brothers are the most significant reefs in the area, and as such act as a magnet luring any pelagic and reef fishes. The reefs support an incredible dense and diverse coral population, with overwhelmingly beautiful soft coral growth on all sides. Big Brother, the larger of the two, lies about 1 km north of its sibling. It is easily identified by its Victorian stone lighthouse, a legacy of the British rule.
Besides the incredible underwater life that exists at the Brothers, is the attraction of two wrecks at the site. The first is on the northwest side of Big Brother a wreck that is found at reasonable depth. The bow is in 30 m of water and the rear starts at 40 m. The name of the wreck is 'Aida', a 75 meter long passenger ship, which was used by the Army as a supply ship. During a storm in 1957 the boat sunk but luckily all 157 passengers were rescued. The ship is standing alongside a steep coral wall and is flowered with colorful soft corals.
Less than 100 m north to 'the Aida' there is a second and much older wreck in shallower water. This wreck is called 'the railway wreck' or 'the Numidia'. It was an English ship transporting material for railways. The ship sank around 1900 and is fully sheltered with soft corals in all colors. The bow, marked by a collection of strange wheels starts at 9 m. The rest of the wreck is at 15 m and goes on to 40 m, where the hull has been broken. The rear of the boat and the propellor can be found around 80 m. This wreck is known to be one of the if not the most intriguing in the Red Sea.
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 Live Aboard
trips are available in both the North and South of the Red Sea.
Check out the 2010 timetable |
DEPARTURE DATE |
RETURN DATE |
EMBARKATION |
ROUTE |
RATE |
Mar 11 |
Mar 18 |
Hurghada |
Deep South Magic |
670 Euro |
Mar 18 |
Mar 25 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Mar 25 |
Apr 01 |
Hamata |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Apr 01 |
Apr 08 |
Hamata |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Apr 08 |
Apr 15 |
Hamata |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Apr 15 |
Apr 22 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
670 Euro |
May 06 |
May 13 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Divers Voyage |
670 Euro |
May 13 |
May 20 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Brothers |
620 Euro |
May 20 |
May 27 |
Hurghada |
Brothers |
620 Euro |
May 27 |
Jun 03 |
Hurghada |
North/Brothers |
670 Euro |
Jun 03 |
Jun 10 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Jun 10 |
Jun 17 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
620 Euro |
Jun 17 |
Jun 24 |
Hurghada |
North/Brothers |
670 Euro |
Jun 24 |
Jul 01 |
Hurghada |
North/Brothers |
670 Euro |
Jul 1 |
Jul 08 |
Hurghada |
So. Experience |
620 Euro |
Jul 22 |
Jul 29 |
Hurghada |
North/Brothers |
670 Euro |
Jul 29 |
Aug 05 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Aug 05 |
Aug 12 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
620 Euro |
Aug 12 |
Aug 19 |
Hurghada |
North |
500 Euro |
Aug 19 |
Aug 26 |
Hurghada |
North |
500 Euro |
Aug 26 |
Sep 02 |
Hurghada |
So. Experience |
620 Euro |
Sep 02 |
Sep 09 |
Marsa Alam |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Sep 09 |
Sep 16 |
Hamata |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Sep 16 |
Sep 23 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
620 Euro |
Sep 23 |
Sep 30 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Divers Voyage |
620 Euro |
Sep 30 |
Oct 07 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
640 Euro |
Oct 07 |
Oct 14 |
Hurghada |
North/Brothers |
690 Euro |
Nov 11 |
Nov 18 |
Marsa Ghalib |
So. Experience |
620 Euro |
Nov 18 |
Nov 25 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
590 Euro |
Nov 25 |
Dec 02 |
Hamata |
Deep South Magic |
550 Euro |
Dec 02 |
Dec 09 |
Hamata |
Deep South Magic |
550 Euro |
Dec 09 |
Dec 16 |
Marsa Ghalib |
Deep South Magic |
580 Euro |
Dec 16 |
Dec 23 |
Hurghada |
North |
460 Euro |
Dec 23 |
Dec 30 |
Hurghaga |
North |
500 Euro |
Dec 30 |
Jan 06-2011 |
Hurghada |
North |
500 Euro |
Rates include unlimited diving, private cabin accommodations, all meals and soft drinks, dive guides, tanks and weights, and ground transfers from the Airport or hotel to the harbor. Additional costs include the full scuba equipment and marine park fees.
Private charters can be arranged with a minimum of 5 persons. ART can customize any trip for you and your dive buddies.
If you do not have the time for a week long dive safari to discover the awesome beauty of the southern dive sites, we can arrange with other divers a mini-safari dive trips to the Brothers Islands and other southern atolls and islands.
Itineraries and map routes
The following itineraries suggest various routes encompassing all the major diving destinations.
The Northern Route starts from Hurghada to the straits of Tiran, Ras Mohammed, Shab Mahmoud (Dunraven Wreck), Shab Ali (Thistlegorm Wreck), Gobal Islands, Shab Um Usk, Siyul Saghira and Kebira, Abu Nuhas, Shab El Erg, Umm Gammar, and Careless Reef.
The Southern route can depart from either Hurghada, Safaga or Quseir and goes to Shab Shear (Saleem Express), Abu Gafan, Umm Halhalla, Panorama Reef, Ras Abu Soma, Tobi Arba, Abu Hashish, Elphinstone.
Due to the long distances between the sites in the Deep South, the trips are varied to maximize your scuba experience.
Following indicates the different routes that highlight the spectacular sites of the Deep South.
The Southern Experience Elphinstone, Brother's Island, Abu Kefan, Panorama Reef and Abu Ramada
Deep South Magic Elphinstone, Daedalus Reef, Zarbargad Island, Brother's Island, St John's and Dolphin House
Divers Voyage Dhaab Samadai, Shaab Sharm, Wadi Gamal, Galawa, Shaab Maksur, Dolphin Reef and St John's
All dive trips including the Brothers, Zabargad and Rocky Island require special permission and can be organized for private group charters. So if you have a minimum of 10 divers, choose the dates and the desired sites and we will create your dream voyage.
Trips to the Brothers, Zabargad and Rocky Island require special permission and can be organized for private group charters.
All of the itineraries can be altered due to "weather conditions." When weather conditions are compromising the captain has the right and may cancel a destination if this weather will affect the safety of the guests or the boat. If the conditions are not affecting the vessel but the captain sees that more than 50% of the group are experiencing difficulty such as severe sea sickness; he may change the destination as well. It is our full intention to deliver a memorable, yet safe dive experience.
The underwater amazement of the Red Sea remains a living tapestry of resounding corals and exotic fish, waiting for you to discover its secrets with Aqua Red Travel's Red Sea Diving Safaris
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