Announcing our next Red Sea trip.....
We will be embarking on the Daedalus, Rocky and St Johns itinerary aboard the Grand Sea Serpent for the dates 20-27th October 2010. This is the best time of year to see the big fish!
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Itinerary: Daedalus, Rocky and St Johns
Operator: Scuba Travel
Boat: Grand Sea Serpent
Total Places: 24
Dates: 20 – 27 October 2010 (best time for big fish encounters)
Cost: £1,215 (based on a group booking discount of 10%)
To create the Daedalus, Rocky and St Johns itinerary we have scoured the vast miles of Southern Red Sea and picked out the crème de la crème for your personal diving enjoyment. Stretching south from Marsa Alam to within a breath of the Sudanese border, this wide ranging itinerary shows off the remarkable diversity that makes the region so rich. Walls, shallow caves, softly draped pinnacles are all on the menu. Daedalus, Rocky and St Johns is an week of diving that is as varied as it is enjoyable, with a new dive site just begging to be explored at every stop.
Check dive under your belt, the boat sails south. Overnighting to Daedalus, the first of the big wall dive sites looms large. Lying south of Marsa Alam, Daedalus is the place for exhilarating drift dives and shark sightings. Next on the itinerary is the ethereal Southern Marine Park. Rocky and Zabagad are mystical islands where ancient ancient Egyptians mined green gem stones from the dusty earth. Slender coral towers and plunging drop offs are the order of the day. St Johns is only a short hop away where diving is a thrilling mixture of sunken reef tops, steep walls and shallow caves systems. Returning north does not mean the end of this itinerary. The succulent coral gardens of Fury Shoal and Wadi Gamal are just as spectacular and finish the week with an exclamation mark.
The marine life on display is as varied as the dive sites. The Marine Parks are the place for pelagic encounters. Be it hammerheads at Daedalus or Rocky, grey reefs at Habili Jaffa (or small habilli, St Johns), there is plenty of reason to keep a watchful eye to the blue. Oceanic white tips cruise the shallows in the summer months, right through to the year end. Turtles mate on the southern shores of Zabagad. Rare bumphead parrot fish are commonly seen chomping hard corals at Habili Kebr (or big habilil) and Dangerous. Abu Bassala boasts fine anemone gardens, stonefish and baby white tips. The shallow cave systems to the north of St Johns are a fun and unusual dive. A Russian trawler, possibly the Khanka, and small yacht in Fury Shoal add some wrecks to an unsurpassable itinerary.
Divers do need a minimum of 50 dives to enter the Marine Parks but the diverse itinerary makes it ideal for anyone looking for more than just currents and wall diving. The candy coloured reefs will suit photographers or those divers that just enjoy watching fish act out their daily lives. Night diving joins the itinerary once outside the Marine Parks, where morays, feather stars and spanish dancers all parade in the dark.
Daedalus, Rocky & St Johns is the ideal itinerary for advanced divers looking to get more out of the Southern Red Sea. No corner of the region, no matter how far flung, is left out and there are walls, pinnacles and caves to keep even the most demanding diver happy. Sailing over night and during the day, you get to every dive site at just the right moment. Daedalus, Rocky and St Johns is a splendid itinerary with diving to match.
Grand Sea Serpent is a liveaboard that lives up to expectations. Launched in April 2005, she is a culmination of many years of experience building and operating superb Red Sea liveaboards. At 41 metres from stern to bow this boat is huge by any standards - and luxurious! Enjoy the envious looks from others as you pull up to the reef on board this beautiful boat with her sleek, classic lines and spacious dive deck.
On such a large vessel there is always somewhere to sunbathe, read a book, take a cool drink at the sun deck bar or to just pick a spot and admire the uninterrupted horizon. Double or twin cabins accommodate 24 divers and all have a fridge and en suite bathroom as standard. The large bathrooms feature multiple jet showers, which are just perfect at the end of the day’s diving. Grand Sea Serpent is fully equipped to cater to ever diver’s needs - be that as a recreational diver, photographer or technical diver. A Haskel pump on board enables gas mixes to be custom blended. Free nitrox is on offer to all nitrox divers.
Daedalus Rocky and St Johns itinerary gets right to the furthest corner of the Egyptian Red Sea. Grand Sea Serpent’s clever build makes light work of the traveling between dive sites, ensuring that you are in the best spots at the exact right time each day.
Flights from London Gatwick, transfers, 6 nights on a Full Board basis on Grand Sea Serpent and the last night in a hotel on a Half Board Basis. Free Nitrox, a 12ltr tank and weights are included.