Northern Red Sea Diving Trip Report: Blue Planet

The Sinai Peninsula diving gives you the Red Sea at its best and is renowned for liveaboards that combine exceptional service standards with good value for money and for some of the best wreck diving in the world. We wanted to find out if diving the HMS Thistlegorm from the MY Blue Planet 1 is all its cracked up to be.

Diving into the Red Sea from MY Blue Planet I - photo courtesy of Ashraf HssaninSo its a tough job, but Sheldon Hey volunteered gamely and set off in November to find out if it lives up to our expectations.

Discover why MY Blue Planet 1 is so popular with returning guests and what could have been better. What is it really like diving from this liveaboard – what are the dive tenders like, the staff, the food?

HMS Thistlegorm Wreck in Sinai Peninsula, Red Sea - photo courtesy of Ashraf Hssanin

Read how he saw dolphins almost daily and discovered giant morays while reef diving.

Find out why the highlight of the trip was the Abu Nuhas wrecks, the world famous SS Thistlegorm and Rosalie Moller wrecks.

You can take the Sinai Peninsula cruise with him and get all these questions answered, by reading the full trip report here:

Visit MY Blue Planet 1 at Dive The World or contact us for more information about your next diving holiday in the Red Sea. Call us on +66 (0)94 582 7973 / (0)83 505 7794 or you could send us an email.

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Published 6 Dec 2009