Amorina’s dive safaris in Egypt and Sudan include dives at a variety of the most exotic dive sites in the world. For a diver the underwater world of the Red Sea fulfils almost every wish. Amorina and her international crew offer exciting, active adventures on these comfortable live-aboard trips.

SAFAGA

AT SEA

THE SOUTH

The southern Egypt, from Marsa Toronbi to Zabargad and Rocky Island, provides a remote and seldom visited dive paradise with variations that are well known all over the world. These southern areas provide great opportunities to see schools of barracudas, sharks, manta rays, moray eels, whales, surgeon fish and much more. Everyone will be busy recording the highlights in their logbooks after these dives.

Fury Shoal is also home to many first class reefs. One is Shab Mahsur with caves, dropoffs and grande canals. An other is Shab Sataya where you can find Scott’s Wreck. A beautiful, storybook wreck encrusted with an amazingly colourful variety of sponges and corals. Sitting with her bow up on the reef resting just below the surface it provides a great opportunity for all types of photography from macro to wide angel. Here you also can find Dolphin Reef, named after the Rocky Islands. Here you can find every from a 1000 meter (3.250 ft) sheer dropoff to coral reefs, the wreck of a Russian cargo ship and exotic deep sea life.

If there’s something you’ve always wanted to see you’ve got a good chance of finding it here. Zabargad is certainly one of the most spectacular dive sites in the Red Sea. The only wish you are likely to have after being here, is to return to this divers paradise.

WRECK DIVING TOURS: HURGHADA/STRAITS OF GUBAL

For groups interested in a wreck diving safari we can offer a spectacular array of wrecks in the area of Hurghada and Straits of Gubal. Wrecks like "Thistlegorm", a 126 meter (409 ft) long English cargoship that was bombed by a long range German bomber on the 6th of October 1941. She lies on the bottom in 30 meters (97 ft) of water, almost untouched and filled with a truly incredible array of equipment such as jeeps, trucks, motorbikes, tanks, train cars, a locomotive, a bewildering array of ammunition from rifle bullets to mortar shells and other material that was meant for the English troops in North Africa. "S/S Dunraven" was an 82 meter (267 ft) long English sail equipped steamship. During her voyage in 1876 from Bombay to Newcastle she met her tragic destiny on the reef at Beacon Rock. Today she is an attractive dive site, beautifully overgrown with corals.

The north wall of the reef at Shab Abu Nuhas is a first class wreck diving site. There are three interesting wrecks lying in the space of a few hundred meters. First we visit a 99 meter (322 ft) long Greek cargo ship, "Giannis D", that on the 19th of April 1983 ran on the reef. She didn’t go down until two weeks later when a storm broke her in two pieces. She now rests in 22 meters (72 ft) of water.

Further along the reef we find the once luxurious steamship "Carnatic". The 90 meter (392 ft) long ship bit the reef on the 13th of September 1869. On board were 230 passengers and a cargo of gold that was then worth 40.000 English pounds. 27 people were lost when she went down.

Later they managed to salvage 32.000 English pounds worth of the gold. There’s no record of anyone finding the rest of the gold. Who knows, it may still be there waiting for some lucky diver.

The last of the three wrecks is the Greek cargo ship "Chrisoula K". At 3.700 tons and 106 meters (345 ft) she rammed the reef at full speed. Her bow was totally destroyed and the debris is still hanging on top of the reef. The bow section should be avoided when the sea is rough. The entire rest of the ship sets basically intact and upright on the bottom still loaded with her cargo of Italian tile.

SUDAN

As diving recently has been permitted by the government of Sudan - this extremely remote and rarely dove area sports a wide variety of exclusive dive sites. Among the sites we visit are Shab Suadi, and the wreck "Blue Bell", a ship loaded with Japanese cars. Or Shab Rumi where Jaques Cousteau’s research station "Precontinent II" still sits intact on the bottom of the sea.

Sanganeb reef, with it’s large lighthouse, is an eldorado for UW-photographers. They can spend days or even weeks at this site exploring the great dive sites of the areas natural bounty. Wingate Reef, the playground of manta rays also spots the wreck "Umbria" with it’s cargo of 360.000 bombs. Sawakin with it’s 20 islands are inhabited by many birds but is also a fantastic dive location that we can visit if the weather allows. Sudan offers a great variety of first class dive sites. You should need at least 2 weeks to explore some of them. Port Sudan is our port of clearance when we arrive from Egypt.

With the help of Amorina’s fast inflatable boats we take you directly to the best parts of the reefs, avoiding long swims. Each boat can carry 2-12 persons depending on the weather conditions. The boat drivers are equipped with VHF radios so they can be directed to where they are most needed.