BDE - (Brothers Daedalus Elphinstone)

Marsa Shouna is a vibrant lagoon in the Marsa Alam region, famous for its rich marine biodiversity. The seagrass-covered sandy bottom attracts turtles, rays, and dugongs, while divers often spot barracudas, moray eels, octopuses, and crocodile fish. The coral formations are home to schools of fish and colorful anemones.
The site is ideal for both beginners and experienced divers, offering both drifts by zodiac and boat-to-boat dives. With calm waters and a sheltered location, Marsa Shouna is perfect for relaxed dives and underwater photography.

Abu Dabbab is a chain of six reefs located near the coast in the Marsa Alam region. Each offers a unique underwater landscape, diverse marine life, and excellent conditions for both day and night dives. This is a common choice for a check-dive on our deep south itineraries across our fleet.

Abu Dabbab 1 & 2 – the most popular and scenic reefs, featuring coral gardens, canyons, and large coral bommies that provide shelter for moray eels, lionfish, frogfish, and octopuses.
Abu Dabbab 3 & 4 – known for their deep walls and steep drop-offs, often patrolled by whitetip reef sharks, barracudas, and tunas.
Abu Dabbab 5 & 6 – more remote sites with strong currents, making them perfect for drift dives. Divers here may encounter eagle rays, sea turtles, and even whale sharks in the right season.

With stable diving conditions, incredible visibility, and abundant marine life, Abu Dabbab is an ideal destination for both beginner and advanced divers looking to explore the rich underwater ecosystems of the Red Sea.

Small Brother may be the smaller of the two Brothers Islands, but it offers no less excitement than its larger counterpart. This tiny island, surrounded by steep drop-offs, is renowned for its rich marine life, strong currents, and exhilarating drift dives.

The site is a hotspot for grey reef sharks, thresher sharks, and oceanic whitetip sharks, which patrol the deep waters around the reef. The walls are adorned with huge gorgonians, black corals, and vibrant soft corals, while schools of barracuda, trevally, and tuna add to the spectacle.
Unlike Big Brother, this site has no wrecks, but it more than makes up for it with breathtaking underwater biodiversity and adrenaline-filled dives.
For shark lovers and adventure seekers, Small Brother is one of the must-dive sites of the Red Sea!

Elphinstone Reef is one of the world’s most exciting diving destinations. A few small breakers are the only visible sign that just below the sea’s surface is the summit of a subterranean mountain, rich in colorful corals and fish species, and attracting the interest of hungry barracuda, dolphins and sharks.

It is two shark species in particular that attract divers looking for that unique once in a life-time close-quarters encounter with a big sea predator. The scarily curious oceanic whitetip and the oddly shaped hammerhead.

This is one of the few places where divers can regularly come eye-to eye with these feared but fascinating animals. The whitetip is categorized as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union and the hammerhead one level worse at endangered.

However these encounters are only for highly experienced advanced divers – not primarily because of the sharks who do not actively seek out human prey, but due to strong currents, which are common here.

Big Brother is one of the two legendary Brothers Islands, located in the open sea about 60 km off the Egyptian coast. This small island is famous for its sheer walls, covered in lush coral gardens, strong currents, and abundant marine life.

Divers can experience thrilling drift dives, encounters with grey reef sharks, thresher sharks, hammerheads and the famous oceanic whitetip sharks. The waters are also teeming with barracudas, tunas, jackfish, snappers and schools of fusiliers.

A special highlight of Big Brother is the wrecks of the Numidia and Aida, which have become stunning artificial reefs, now encrusted with soft and black corals.

At the top of the island stands a historic lighthouse, built in 1883. Occasionally, divers are allowed to visit, offering breathtaking panoramic views of the open sea.

Diving at Big Brother requires experience and good preparation, but those who venture here will be rewarded with unforgettable underwater adventures in one of the Red Sea’s most iconic locations.

Located in the middle of the Red Sea, Daedalus Reef is a remote and breathtaking diving destination, famous for its unspoiled coral walls, strong currents, and high chance of shark encounters. This isolated marine park offers an underwater world full of thrilling drift dives, massive schools of pelagic fish, and pristine hard and soft corals.

The reef’s steep walls are covered with vibrant gorgonians, black corals, and dense soft coral gardens, creating an impressive vertical drop into the deep blue. Hammerhead sharks are frequently spotted here, especially in the early morning, along with grey reef sharks, oceanic whitetips and other shark species. Manta rays also became quite common sighting in recent years.

At the heart of the reef stands the Daedalus Lighthouse, a historic structure that has guided sailors for over a century. It offers a unique above-water experience for divers between dives.