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Brothers · Daedalus · Elphinstone
8 days / 7 nights · Red Sea, Egypt · Aphrodite Liveaboard
● OFFSHORE RED SEA · SHARKS & WALLS
Brothers · Daedalus · Elphinstone
The classic offshore triangle — the Brother Islands, Daedalus and Elphinstone. Soft-coral walls, the Numidia and Aida wrecks, and reliable hammerhead, thresher and oceanic whitetip encounters.
7 NIGHTS
EGYPT
PER DAY
NITROX INCLUDED
ROUTE OVERVIEW
What You'll Dive This Week
The classic offshore triangle — the Brother Islands, Daedalus and Elphinstone. Soft-coral walls, the Numidia and Aida wrecks, and reliable hammerhead, thresher and oceanic whitetip encounters.
🚢 The Brother Islands — Big Brother and Little Brother, 60km offshore.
🪸 Daedalus Reef — Abu Kizan — a 400m standalone reef ~90km from Marsa Alam with an 1863 lighthouse.
🪸 Elphinstone — A long finger-like reef in the open sea with steep walls dropping into the depths on the…
Included
✓ 7 nights full-board accommodation
✓ 3–4 dives per day (2–3 last day)
✓ Dive guides on every dive
✓ Free Nitrox
✓ Tanks & weights
✓ Non-alcoholic beverages
✓ Local transfers
Excluded
○ Flights
○ Rental equipment
○ Alcoholic beverages
○ Visa
○ Crew gratuities
DIVE SITES
The Dive Sites
Every site on this route, aboard M/Y Aphrodite from the Red Sea coast.
The Brother Island, Numidia wreck
5–80m+
Big Brother and Little Brother, 60km offshore. Walls smothered in sponges, anemones and soft corals; sharks common — hammerheads, thresher, grey, silvertip and whitetip. Big Brother holds a lighthouse and the wrecks Numidia and Aida.
The Brother Island, Aida wreck
5–80m+
Aida II — an Italian cargo steamer that sank in 1957 off Big Brother Island. She rests bow-down at 26–72 m, tilted at a dramatic angle that sends her stern reaching toward the surface.ral.
The Little Brother Island
5–80m+
Little Brother — the smaller of the two Brothers Islands, but anything but modest underwater. A sheer wall dropping beyond 100 m and relentless currents make this one of the Red Sea’s most exhilarating drift dives.
Daedalus Reef — North Tip
5–500m
The north tip is where the current converges and the hammerheads come through. Strong flow from both sides meets here — divers drop in up-current and drift across the tip with the reef wall on one side and open blue on the other. Hammerheads work this current year-round; May to November is when schools form.
Daedalus Reef — East & West Walls
5–500m+
The east and west walls of Daedalus are pristine hard coral formations — mountainous heads and valleys that see almost no damage. The east wall gets morning light; the west wall is best in the afternoon. Gorgonian fans at 20–35m, barracuda and trevally schools, large groupers and Napoleon wrasse working the coral.
Elphinstone
5–60m+
A long finger-like reef in the open sea with steep walls dropping into the depths on the east and west, and submerged plateaus at the north and south ends where sharks patrol.
Abu Dabbab
5–20m+
A sheltered bay with seagrass beds and coral gardens close to Port Ghalib — calm water, excellent visibility and rich shallow life. Sea turtles feed on the seagrass almost every dive. Blue-spotted rays and garden eels in the sandy sections, moray eels in the coral. Used here as check dives before the overnight crossing to Daedalus.
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