Route Description - Daedalus & Fury Shoal
A great all-round tour for divers with a little more experience. The diving cruise offers some of the best dive sites in the Red Sea. Demanding dives, steep walls, beautiful coral walls and many big fish. In the Fury Shoals system, the Shaab Claudio captivates with its tunnels. Divers and photographers will be charmed. Skates, nudibranches, big napoleons and moray eels are common, white tip sharks or turtles can be spotted here.
Sha'ab Sataya is located just south of Fury Shoals, this huge natural lagoon is surrounded by a massive reef (Shaab). The fame of Sataya is its steep walls along with pelagic sightings, hard and soft corals. But the real stars are the huge herds of dolphins that are often found there, so Sataya is also called the "Dolphin House" of Hamata. Depending on the prevailing weather conditions, night dives can be done here.
Dive sites that can be dived on this tour are the Daedalus Reef: About 180 km south of Brother Islands, this huge reef is surrounded by steep walls and strong currents. The hard corals have grown to enormous size! Here you have a great chance on the famous hammerhead school in the north east of the reef.
Elphinstone Reef: This reef is known for shark encounters, white tip reef sharks, hammerhead sharks, gray reef sharks, fox sharks and of course, for what Elphinstone is famous for: the Longimanus - the oceanic white tip reef shark .
Elphinstone Reef or Sha'ab Abu Hamra, located 20 km from Marsa Alam, is a reef no larger than 300 meters in length. Its spectacular cliffs drop well over 100 meters on either side of the reef. Strong currents make this a perfect drift dive along cliffs covered with many species of fish and soft corals. Here you can see barracudas, angelfish and hordes of anthias, groupers, moray eels and swarms of sweetlips. The reef is covered with soft corals to the north. At the southern end of Elphinstone is an archway, with 65 feet of depth, this is far beyond the scuba diving limit, but best suited for Tek divers. Whitetip sharks also occasionally visit this area.
Other types of sharks are regular visitors here - white tip and gray reef sharks as well as hammerhead sharks and silk sharks can be spotted.
The east side is a large wall, the west is less steep and a bit sandy. Overall, this area has a lot of soft corals, sponges, gorgonians and giant whip corals.
Daedalus and Fury Shoal is a great combination for divers who love cliffs and big fish.
The exact route and reefs that are visited are weather dependent and depend on the diving experience of our guests.
Start and end of the dive safari is in Port Ghalib