Emperor Elite Itinerary

Southern Solitude

8 days / 7 nights

About Emperor Elite

  • Over 25 years’ experience offering liveaboard cruises in the Red Sea
  • Get the most out of your trip with the 21+ DIVES or MAX dive itineraries
  • Enjoy free wifi, wine with dinner, and nitrox mixes up to 40%

Operated by the long-reigning kings of Red Sea liveaboard diving - Emperor Divers - this vessel offers convenient, action-packed voyages exploring the very best dive sites in the Egyptian Red Sea. Boasting contemporary and spacious cabins, and a handful of extra perks like free nitrox and complimentary wine, Emperor Elite is well-equipped to cater for the most discerning of divers. Throw in the action-packed itineraries and you’ve got a dream dive holiday and exceptional value for money.

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Itinerary details

8 days / 7 nights
21+
Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Required

Highlights

  • Circular itinerary exploring many of the southern Red Sea’s top sites
  • Dive Daedalus Reef, the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea
  • Meet the resident dolphins of Fury Shoals’ pristine reef
  • Search for the oceanic whitetips and hammerheads of Elphinstone
  • Night dives may be possible when outside of marine parks
  • Visit the rarely dived southern sites of St Johns
  • All dives made offshore

Once onboard there will be a safety briefing, crew introduction, complete and check dive paperwork, cabin allocation and boat orientation. Our boats moor in the port on arrival day, departing early the next morning. The first dive is a check dive near the port.

By approaching these iconic sites in the opposite direction to most standard itineraries, we hope to offer you the best opportunity to dive with the fewest number of people around you.

Southern Solitude is a dive-focused trip, heading out of Port Ghalib and immediately arriving in the Elphinstone area. This enables us to make a check dive nearby and then get straight to a site which is normally frequented on the final days of trips. With fewer boats around it should give the chance to enjoy the 300-metre-long reef’s colourful pink and red soft coral sheer walls in relative peace and quiet.

We’ll then go to Daedalus, arriving before most others, to take in its deep walls and drop-offs which offer some of the most spectacular diving to be found, before heading down to the exceptionally remote, and usually quiet, Rocky and Zabargad Islands where even many Red Sea veterans cannot boast to have dived.

Over the next couple of days we will move up through St John’s and Fury Shoals where our guides will find the quietest spots in this vast collection of stunning reef systems, which offers some of the most picturesque and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Fury Shoals also boasts an amazing selection of marine life including super-friendly turtles and a resident pod of spinner dolphins.

This will bring us up to day six when, while others cram into local onshore bays, we’ll do a full day and night diving program on some offshore reefs as we travel north.

On the last diving day, there is the potential to do four dives as the boat stays out all night. We return to Port Ghalib at approximately 07.30 AM with boat departure to be completed by 09.00 AM. The earliest flight you should take from RMF is 10.30 AM and from HRG 13.30 PM, to allow for a stress free departure.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.

Transfer details

Departure

06:00pm

Port Ghalib

Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF

Return

09:00am

Port Ghalib

Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF

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