Sunlight Liveaboard, Red Sea

Affordable, cheerful, and newly updated liveaboard offering dive safaris in Egypt’s top Red Sea sites

from$112 /day

per person

Overview

Exciting eight-day scuba safaris and custom charters
Possible encounters with oceanic whitetip sharks, and schooling hammerheads
Updated interiors and modern facilities having been restored in 2019
Explore Egypt’s top diving and snorkelling sites with a fun, social atmosphere

Sunlight’s modern and updated deck plan, comfortable cabins, diverse itineraries, and fantastic service make it a top pick for liveaboard divers looking for affordable safaris in Egypt’s Red Sea. This vessel is known for its fun, social atmosphere and lively evening gatherings, ideal for outgoing guests hoping to meet a new dive buddy or two. Sunlight’s itineraries also include opportunities to add to your liveaboard adventure with resort stays at partner property Sadko Diving Centre in Hurghada, CMAS scuba courses, and day trips to some of the central Red Sea’s very best sites. Private charters for up to 26 guests are also available, allowing you to plan a completely custom adventure.

Number of cabins:10
Internet:YES
Nitrox:YES
Equipment rental:YES
Guest / Guide:10:1
Group booking discounts
Flexible booking terms

Choose your trip

9Nov 2024
8D / 7N
Rocky, Zabargad and St Johns (RMF)
18 - 19 dives
from $896
Overview
Length of trip 8 days / 7 nights
Number of dives 18 - 19
Experience Advanced Open Water - Minimum 50 dives
Insurance Dive and travel insurance required
Transfer details
Departure
09 Nov 2024
10:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam Airport: RMF
Return
16 Nov 2024
08:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam Airport: RMF
What's included
Meals and snacks
Water, tea and coffee
Soft drinks
Towels and toiletries
Tanks and weights
Nitrox
Hotel transfers
National park fee
Internet
What's not included
To be paid in advance or onboard
Dive and travel insurance
Port fees - €50 per trip
Environmental tax - €60 per trip
Optional Extras
To be booked in advance or paid onboard
Single supplement - 75%
Alcoholic drinks
Equipment rental - €15 per day
15L tanks - €5 per day
Night dives
Gratuities - €60 per trip
Highlights
Circular route to Rocky, Zabargad, and St Johns Reef
Search the overhangs of Rocky Island for rare black coral
Dive the slender coral towers of Zabargad Island
See some of Egypt's healthiest coral reefs at St Johns
Explore the tunnels and small caves of Gota Sharm

Day 1: Once on board, you will be assigned your accommodation, receive a boat briefing, and select any rental equipment. The boat will spend the night in port.

Days 2-6: The boat departs from Port Ghalib early the following morning, setting sail for the offshore reefs of the south.

Further south are the spectacular overhangs and deep walls of Rocky Island and the abundance of soft coral and spectacular coral pinnacles at Zabargad.

Zabargad Island is a wonderful dive site offering wall diving, a wreck and shallow areas with dozens of slender coral towers. Here live a great many tropical groupers, which are easily approached and photographed during a dive without equals in its category. When diving here at night you will find octopus, crustaceans and nudibranchs emerge to crowd through the coral grottos.

Rocky Island is a small fossil-coral island that emerges from the surface, elliptical in shape, surrounded by a surface level reef. The island’s walls sink down to more than 1,000 metres of water. The walls are covered in soft corals and huge gorgonians which float and wave in the current. It is possible to sight many species of shark here as well as sailfish, dolphins and manta rays.

St John’s is a beautiful reef system which lies approx. 40km north of the Sudanese border and 20km South of Zabargad. It is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Habili Ali offers giant gorgonians and black corals whilst grey reef, silvertip and schools of hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of snappers, butterfly fish and barracudas. Mantas, oceanic whitetip, grey reef and silvertip sharks can be seen in the blue. Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and south plateau where jacks and barracudas can be seen and the occasional manta. The tunnels are ideal for novice cave divers.

Gota Soraya is rated as possibly one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with overhangs and cracks in the reef wall full of glassfish and sweepers and an abundance of corals, grey reef, silvertip, oceanic whitetip and hammerheads.

Day 7: After a morning of diving, depending on the following day’s flight schedule, we will return to port at around 15.30.

Day 8: Check-out after breakfast and no later than 10.00.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.
Payment & cancellation terms
Payment policy
30% deposit - required to secure reservation.
70% balance - due 2 weeks prior to departure.
Bookings received less than 2 weeks before departure require payment in full to secure reservation.
Cancellation policy
A 30% advance payment will be retained in case of cancellation.
Special offers or promotions - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Group bookings - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Contact the ZuBlu travel team if you have any questions about payment terms and cancellation.
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Per person, diving included
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16Nov 2024
8D / 7N
Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinstone (RMF)
18 - 19 dives
from $896
Overview
Length of trip 8 days / 7 nights
Number of dives 18 - 19
Experience Advanced Open Water - Minimum 50 dives
Insurance Dive and travel insurance required
Transfer details
Departure
16 Nov 2024
10:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam Airport: RMF
Return
23 Nov 2024
08:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam Airport: RMF
What's included
Meals and snacks
Water, tea and coffee
Soft drinks
Towels and toiletries
Tanks and weights
Nitrox
Hotel transfers
National park fee
Internet
What's not included
To be paid in advance or onboard
Dive and travel insurance
Port fees - €50 per trip
Environmental tax - €60 per trip
Optional Extras
To be booked in advance or paid onboard
Single supplement - 75%
Alcoholic drinks
Equipment rental - €15 per day
15L tanks - €5 per day
Night dives
Gratuities - €60 per trip
Highlights
Circular itinerary offering the very best of the central Red Sea
Experience the current swept pinnacles of Brothers Islands National Park
Dive Daedalus Reef, the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea
Search for the oceanic whitetips and hammerheads of Elphinstone
Discover the wrecks of the Aida II and Numidia at the Brothers Islands
Explore the chilling wreck of the Salem Express

Day 1: Arrive at the port of embarkation and board the boat. Once onboard, you will be assigned your accommodation, receive a boat briefing, and select any rental equipment. The boat will then spend the night in port.

Day 2: Port Authority clearance and departure, ready for check dive.

Days 3-6: Diving awaits you on the Brothers Islands with their famous wrecks, Aida and Numidia, as well as the far-flung Daedalus Reef, and the famous shark hotspot of Elphinstone.

Day 7: Enjoy 1 or 2 relaxed morning dives local to the port of disembarkation, allowing you to cruise into harbour in the early afternoon.

Day 8: Check out after breakfast.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.
Payment & cancellation terms
Payment policy
30% deposit - required to secure reservation.
70% balance - due 2 weeks prior to departure.
Bookings received less than 2 weeks before departure require payment in full to secure reservation.
Cancellation policy
A 30% advance payment will be retained in case of cancellation.
Special offers or promotions - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Group bookings - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Contact the ZuBlu travel team if you have any questions about payment terms and cancellation.
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Per person, diving included
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23Nov 2024
8D / 7N
Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinstone (RMF)
18 - 19 dives
from $896
Overview
Length of trip 8 days / 7 nights
Number of dives 18 - 19
Experience Advanced Open Water - Minimum 50 dives
Insurance Dive and travel insurance required
Transfer details
Departure
23 Nov 2024
10:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam Airport: RMF
Return
30 Nov 2024
08:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam Airport: RMF
What's included
Meals and snacks
Water, tea and coffee
Soft drinks
Towels and toiletries
Tanks and weights
Nitrox
Hotel transfers
National park fee
Internet
What's not included
To be paid in advance or onboard
Dive and travel insurance
Port fees - €50 per trip
Environmental tax - €60 per trip
Optional Extras
To be booked in advance or paid onboard
Single supplement - 75%
Alcoholic drinks
Equipment rental - €15 per day
15L tanks - €5 per day
Night dives
Gratuities - €60 per trip
Highlights
Circular itinerary offering the very best of the central Red Sea
Experience the current swept pinnacles of Brothers Islands National Park
Dive Daedalus Reef, the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea
Search for the oceanic whitetips and hammerheads of Elphinstone
Discover the wrecks of the Aida II and Numidia at the Brothers Islands
Explore the chilling wreck of the Salem Express

Day 1: Arrive at the port of embarkation and board the boat. Once onboard, you will be assigned your accommodation, receive a boat briefing, and select any rental equipment. The boat will then spend the night in port.

Day 2: Port Authority clearance and departure, ready for check dive.

Days 3-6: Diving awaits you on the Brothers Islands with their famous wrecks, Aida and Numidia, as well as the far-flung Daedalus Reef, and the famous shark hotspot of Elphinstone.

Day 7: Enjoy 1 or 2 relaxed morning dives local to the port of disembarkation, allowing you to cruise into harbour in the early afternoon.

Day 8: Check out after breakfast.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.
Payment & cancellation terms
Payment policy
30% deposit - required to secure reservation.
70% balance - due 2 weeks prior to departure.
Bookings received less than 2 weeks before departure require payment in full to secure reservation.
Cancellation policy
A 30% advance payment will be retained in case of cancellation.
Special offers or promotions - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Group bookings - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Contact the ZuBlu travel team if you have any questions about payment terms and cancellation.
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Per person, diving included
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Cabins

Twin cabin
Bunk beds
2 people
Shareable

If you are a solo traveller, we aim to allocate shared cabins on a same-sex basis.
Non-shareable cabins can not be shared with another single traveler outside your party. A single occupancy surcharge will be applied.

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Sunlight Liveaboard, Red Sea

Overview

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Rocky, Zabargad and St Johns (RMF)

Departure

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What's included

What's not included

Optional Extras

Payment & cancellation terms

Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinstone (RMF)

Departure

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What's included

What's not included

Optional Extras

Payment & cancellation terms

Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinstone (RMF)

Departure

Return

What's included

What's not included

Optional Extras

Payment & cancellation terms

Cabins

Twin cabin

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