Egypt:
Red Sea Liveaboard

Overnight passage from Hurghada brings the vessel to the Thistlegorm as the sun breaks. The British armed merchant vessel — sunk in 1941 by German bombers — rests at 16–30 metres with its cargo intact: motorcycles, trucks, rifles, and ammunition still in position after 80 years. Large enough to require two dives to cover properly. Night dive planned after surface interval.

A Greek cargo freighter that ran onto the reef in 1983 and sank in three sections. The bow at 27 metres is heavily encrusted and holds a substantial lionfish population; the midships section at 18 metres shelters large grouper in the holds. Compact enough to cover in a single dive — but rewards a second.

A passenger ferry that sank in 1991 with the loss of over 400 lives. The wreck sits largely intact at 15–30 metres, listed to one side, personal effects still visible throughout the passenger decks. It is a dived site and a memorial site simultaneously — approached with that understanding.

The southern tip of the Sinai where two gulfs meet. The reef walls at Shark Reef and Yolanda drop vertically from the surface to beyond sport diving limits — coral at depth as dense as at the top. The Yolanda wreck has since slid down the wall; its cargo of bathroom fixtures sits at 30 metres, gradually being colonised. Jackfish Alley concentrates schools of snapper, jacks, and barracuda in the channel.

Four submerged reef platforms in the navigation channel between the Sinai and the Saudi coast. The tidal push concentrates fish across all four reefs. Hammerheads transit the deeper water on both sides of Gordon Reef at dawn; grey reef sharks and whitetips are present in numbers. Entry on the tidal window — the current does the work.

Overnight passage 70 kilometres offshore to two isolated limestone pinnacles rising from deep water. Oceanic whitetip sharks are present on most dives, sometimes in numbers. The Numidia (1901) and Aida II (1957) wrecks drape down Big Brother's wall from 8 to 80 metres — more reef architecture than identifiable structure. Little Brother's north wall has a consistent hammerhead aggregation point at 30–40 metres in June.

Panorama Reef sits offshore east of Safaga — a dramatic wall structure with consistent hammerhead activity deeper on the slope and one of the largest barracuda schools regularly encountered in the northern Red Sea: wall-to-wall columns moving in coordinated direction changes, too large to resolve at the edges. Abu Soma, closer to shore, provides a broader reef complex and shallower profiles before the return passage to Hurghada.