Hurghada (Dive Sites)

Advantages: good sites, cheap
Disadvantages: food can be a bit iffy

...do my PADI and made hurghada my base. The school I used was OK and nursed me through the course 2 days in the classroom followed by the requisite dives and training This is a wonderful place to dive as the reefs are spectacular and the cost of the course is good The main dive locations can get busy in summer so i went in january and thius was better. we had some reefs to ourselfs!!! Egyptians are very friendly and always helpful and the bazzars ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic diving with a great crew
Disadvantages: you need your sea legs and at least 70 dives under your belt

...diving and some fantastic scenery. Divers usually need to be more experienced particularly for livaboard itineraries due to the distance from land of many of the dive sites. If something goes wrong you are a long way from the nearest decompression chamber so you need to be able to control your diving. MY TRIP My trip was on a livaboard the Blue Turtle that sailed out of Hurghada and took in three main dive sites called The Brothers, Daedelus and Elphinstone on a six-day trip over New Year. The Diving After three dives on a local reef in which everyone got used to diving to the conditions and in some cases diving with a new buddy the boat travelled overnight to our first location The Brothers. Even on the local reef, which was very busy, the diving was still very good with plentiful sea life and I saw a moray eel hiding under a rock... Read review

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Advantages: Good visibility, fairly cheap, huge range of destinations
Disadvantages: Boats can be crowded

...and as such is protected. It's predominantly wall diving between a few pinnacles - the classic dive is Anemone, Shark and Yolanda reefs - and if you're good on air, you can make it between all of them on one drift dive. The Yolanda is fairly unique in that the wreck itself that hit the reef has now fallen off into the depths, leaving a scattered cargo that mainly consists of toilets - a bizarre sight 20m down! The other famous site within reach of Sharm (as well as Hurghada across the Sinai) is the wreck of the Thistlegorm. This British ship was bombed in 1941 while carrying war supplies, and as such entails a facinating dive. Among the cargo weere a number of vehicles such as motorbikes, tanks and locomotives, many of which are easily visible today, although parts of the wreck are fallin apart and becoming dangerous.The wreck was recently closed for a month... Read review

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