Blue Seas

MY Blue Seas is one of the largest luxury liveaboards ever built in the shipyard of Alexandria in Egypt. The yacht's hull sports lines from expert Italian boat makers, complemented by classic interiors. At 37 metres long and 8 metres wide, Blue Seas easily accommodates 24 guests on its Red Sea diving tours with room to spare.

All the cabins on board take advantage of the spacious hull and are furnished with modern fittings. En-suite facilities and individually controlled air-conditioning are standard. There are double cabins available on the upper deck and twin cabins below. There is also a large Honeymoon Suite, occupying the whole of the lower bow section.

The communal areas include a very large saloon on the main deck, with a separate dining area that features marble-topped dining tables. The saloon offers plenty of comfortable and stylish seating to make use of the well-stocked bar. The bar lounge on the upper deck also has a TV and is often used for colourful photographic analysis of the day's diving in the Red Sea. If you are keen to make use of the sun and work on your tan whilst you're in Egypt, Blue Seas has a large tanning area at the bow of the upper deck and a partially shaded flybridge, complete with sun loungers.

The diving deck is perhaps the stand-out feature of Blue Seas, there seems to be enough space for twice as many divers. So if plenty of room on the deck deck is a key feature that you look for in a liveaboard, the Blue Seas will meet your requirement. There's also free nitrox available, a camera table and charge points, plenty of rinse tanks and a bathroom.

Pssst... and a quiet word about the food. Most guest feedback from trips on Blue Seas mentions how great the food was. Rumour has it that the chef has been headhunted several times by other boats, so let's hope this liveaboard can keep him and continue to serve up some of the tastiest food in Egypt.

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Dive experience: Requirements: for North & Wrecks, Tiran, St. John's Reefs safaris - Open Water diver license and 30 logged dives; for Brothers, Daedalus Reef & Elphinstone, Red Sea South safaris - Advanced Open Water diver license and 50 logged dives.

Cruise price per person includes: Cabin accommodation with air-conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, water, bottled soft drinks and hot drinks, return transfers from Hurghada airport to boat for Hurghada departures and from Marsa Alam and Hurghada airports for Port Ghalib departures, dives (as detailed in the trips above), nitrox fills for certified enriched air divers, 2 experienced English-speaking divemasters, 12 litre aluminium tanks with DIN valves (INT connectors available), weights and weightbelts, all taxes.

Cruise price per person excludes (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Scuba equipment (US$ 139 per trip), dive computer (US$ 36 per week), SMB, diving insurance, national park and other tour fees:
North & Wrecks: US$ 165,
Tiran: US$ 165,
St John's: US$ 175,
(North &) Brothers (start/end Hurghada): US$ 181,
(North &) Brothers (start/end Port Ghalib): US$ 201,
Brothers, Daedalus & Elphinstone/Red Sea South: US$ 232,
Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival (cash - EUR, USD, GBP, or credit card).

Optional extras: Alcoholic drinks, torch, 15 litre and 7 litre tanks. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival. Note: prices of items purchased onboard are subject to change.

How to get there: MY Blue Seas departs from Hurghada and Port Ghalib and collective return transfers are provided from nearby hotels and from Hurghada and Marsa Alam airports to the departure point. For more details, including airlines, see our travel information section for the Red Sea.
The first and last nights of the diving tour are spent in the harbour. Guests arrive and board on the first day after 3 pm. The last dive of the trip will be at around 10 am on the penultimate day and the boat returns to port at 4 pm. Guests depart latest at noon on the final day. Please wait at least 18 hours before flying after diving.

Non-diver rate: 10% off the published price.

Single supplement (if you do not want to share accommodation): This is optional - single travellers may choose to share a cabin or pay a supplement of 80% of the published price.

Dive clubs and group discounts: Pay for 9 guests and 1 additional diver can join the cruise in a lower deck cabin free of charge (except during high season).

Whole boat charter rate (per night): Pay for 19 guests and 5 additional persons can join the cruise free of charge (total 24 guests). There is an additional charge of US$ 691 for 2 dive guides on all whole boat charters.

Add-on package: If you have time, we strongly recommend that you consider some of the wonderful antiquities tours in Egypt which can add a whole new dimension to your holiday.
Cairo museum's royal mummies, the pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, a glorious cruise down the Nile staying in a luxury cabin, The Valley of the Kings, all of these and more can be seen in packages starting at 6 nights' duration. Other activities such as 4x4 safaris and camel tours are also available as are custom-made packages to suit your needs.

Brothers, Daedalus & Elphinstone (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Big Brother, Little Brother, Numidia Wreck, Aida Wreck, Daedalus Reef and Elphinstone

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about MY Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
Brother Islands, Daedalus Reef and Elphinstone are a must for all experienced divers. You will surely have fun while diving drop-offs, pinnacles, and huge gorgonians and colourful soft corals that are home to octopus, lionfish, nudibranchs, frogfish, large schools of fish: an underwater photographer’s dream! Bucket list encounters include hammerheads, oceanic whitetips, whale sharks, thresher sharks and manta rays. Lots of curious turtles, Napoleon wrasse and Whitetip reef sharks will be common encounters on several occasions.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari at 09:00 hrs. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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St. John's Reefs (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: dolphins, manta rays, dugongs/manatees, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Abu Dabab, Elphinstone, Sha'ab Claudio, Dolphin Reef (Sataya), Sha'ab Sharm, St. John's (Habili Ali, Umm Kharalim & Gota Kebir), Fury Shoals, Abu Galawa, Marsa Shouna

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about MY Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
The dive sites at St. John's Reefs are very close to each other so it is easy to cruise from one site to the next. You will surely have fun while diving drop-offs, pinnacles, tunnels and amazing hard-coral reefs, huge gorgonians and colourful soft corals that are home for rays, sharks, octopus, lionfish, nudibranchs, frogfish, large schools of fish: an underwater photographer’s dream! Lots of curious turtles, Napoleon wrasse and whitetip reef sharks will be common encounters, while dugongs are more difficult creatures to find.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari at 09:00 hrs. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Red Sea South (8 Days / 7 Nights - 18 Dives)

Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, shark action, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Daedalus Reef, Zabargad, Rocky Island and Elphinstone

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about MY Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
This tour offers a collection of some of the best dive sites in the Red Sea, including Elphinstone, Daedalus Reef, Rocky Island and the Island of Zabargad, which features a seamount breaking from the sea and surrounded by reef. There are also a couple of wrecks to explore and a great variety of corals and reef fish. Bucket list encounters on this tour include hammerheads, oceanic whitetips, thresher sharks and manta rays. Lots of curious turtles, Napoleon wrasse and whitetip reef sharks will be common encounters on several occasions.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Red Sea Northern Wrecks (8 Days / 7 Nights - 21 Dives)

Trip highlights: dolphins, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Abu Nuhas wrecks (Giannis D, Carnatic, Chrisoula K, Kimon M), Thistlegorm or Rosalie Moeller, Gubal Island

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you in just 20 minutes to Hurghada Marina where the dive cruise ship is moored. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about the Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
The safari will take you to some of the most iconic wrecks that the Red Sea has to offer. You will surely have fun while diving the SS Thistlegorm which lies at 32m and is now home to a great variety of marine life, with large schools of fish circling it. The north side of Abu Nuhas features 4 wrecks on a sandy seafloor at the bottom of a steep sloping reef layered with table corals. Wrecks here include the Giannis D, the Carnatic, the Chrisoula K and the Kimon M. Each of them will be a great dive!
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Hurghada.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Daedalus, Fury Shoals & Elphinstone (8 Days / 7 Nights - 18 Dives)

Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, shark action, dolphins, manta rays, dugongs/manatees, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Daedalus Reef, Elphinstone and Dolphin Reef (Sataya), Sha'ab Sharm, Fury Shoals

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about MY Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
Daedalus and Fury Shoal is a great all-round tour for divers with a little more experience. This safari offers you some of the best dive sites in the Red Sea. Challenging dives, steep walls, beautiful coral walls and lots of big fish. Daedalus Reef and Elphinstone are a must for all experienced divers. You will surely have fun while diving the drop-offs and walls with huge gorgonians and colourful soft corals that are home to octopus, lionfish, nudibranchs, frogfish, and large schools of fish. Bucket list encounters include hammerheads, whale sharks, oceanic whitetips, thresher sharks and manta rays. Fury Shoal is famed for its large pods of dolphins, Lots of curious turtles, stingrays, Napoleon wrasse and whitetip reef sharks will be common on several occasions.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari at 09:00 hrs. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Red Sea South & St. John's Reefs (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: dolphins, dugongs/manatees, great macro life/ marine diversity

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Zabargad, Rocky Island, Abu Dabab, Elphinstone, Sha'ab Claudio, Dolphin Reef (Sataya), Sha'ab Sharm, St. John's (Habili Ali, Umm Kharalim & Gota Kebir), Fury Shoals, Abu Galawa, Marsa Shouna

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. After the guests have boarded at 6 pm, the tour guide will give a detailed briefing about MY Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
This tour offers a collection of some of the best dive sites in the Southern Red Sea. Zabargad Island is a top diving area, distinguished by its versatility and a 70m long wreck. Rocky Island is a legendary dive site that makes every diver's heart beat faster. Due to its exposed location and small circumference, it is a very lively reef. Grey reef sharks and silver-tip sharks can be observed in the open water and perhaps also mantas and dolphins. The dive sites at St. John's Reefs are very close to each other so it is easy to cruise from one site to the next. You will surely have fun while diving drop-offs, pinnacles, tunnels and amazing hard-coral reefs, huge gorgonians and colourful soft corals that are home for manta rays, sharks, octopus, lionfish, nudibranchs, frogfish, large schools of fish: an underwater photographer’s dream! Lots of curious turtles, Napoleon wrasse and whitetip reef sharks will be common encounters, while dugongs are more difficult creatures to find.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Red Sea Northern Wrecks & Brothers (8 Days / 7 Nights - 19 Dives)

Trip highlights: hammerhead sharks, shark action, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Abu Nuhas wrecks (Giannis D, Carnatic, Chrisoula K and Kimon M), Thistlegorm or Rosalie Möller, Big Brother and Little Brother, Numidia Wreck, Aida Wreck, Abu Ramada, Abu Dabbab, Safaga, Elphinstone

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. After the guests have boarded, the tour guide will give a detailed briefing about the Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
Dive sites around the Brothers and Elphinstone are a must for all experienced divers. You will surely have fun while diving drop-offs, wrecks, and huge gorgonians and colourful soft corals that are home to octopus, lionfish, nudibranchs, frogfish, large schools of fish. Bucket list encounters include hammerheads, thresher sharks and manta rays. Lots of curious turtles, Napoleon wrasse and whitetip reef sharks will be common encounters on several occasions. The safari will also take you to some of the most iconic wrecks in the world. You will surely have fun while diving the SS Thistlegorm which lies at 32m and is now home to a great variety of marine life, with large schools of fish circling it. The north side of Abu Nuhas features 4 wrecks on a steep sloping reef layered with table corals. Wrecks here include the Giannis D, the Carnatic, the Chrisoula K and the Kimon M. Each of them will be a great dive!
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

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Red Sea South, St. John's & Elba Reef (12 Days / 11 Nights - 29 Dives)

Trip highlights: dolphins, manta rays, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Abu Dabbab, Rocky Island, Elba Reef, Fury Shoals: Dolphin Reef (Sataya), St. John's (Habili Ali, Umm Kharalim & Gota Kebir), Wadi Gamal, Marsa Shouna, Elphinstone

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about the Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-11
This itinerary has been specifically tailored for serious scuba divers who want to enjoy a cruise in the Red Sea with no traffic, providing an ideal underwater environment for all types of divers particularly for underwater videographers and photographers. Part of Elba Reef is in Sudanese waters and special permission has been granted from the Egyptian Navy to dive this pristine and remote reef. During the trip you will also be diving the famous and untouched 113m long Italian Levanzo wreck, built in March 1901 and sunk on 14 March 1923, laying on one of the beautiful Elba reefs at 22-75m in depth.
One of the more current-swept regions of the Red Sea is Rocky Island. Here the nutrient-rich water movement gives rise to healthy gorgonian fans, black coral trees and sponges. Often found sheltering in quieter spots are turtles, grey reef sharks, silvertips, and perhaps also mantas and dolphins. Manta rays and dolphins are also common visitors. In the deep south of Egypt you will have the chance to dive St. John’s Reefs and the Fury Shoals, the healthiest and most colourful in the Red Sea, with their fantastic drop offs, pinnacles, canyons, caves and tunnels, and amazing hard-corals. Sataya, with its resident spinner dolphin population, is a must for snorkelling between dives, as well as having some good underwater offerings, including dugongs and mantas. Wadi Gimal is just to the south of Marsa Alam and is one of Egypt's largest national parks, There are many sites that would suit divers of all levels, featuring big tuna, barracudas, whitetip reef sharks, turtles and Napoleon wrasse.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 12
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Red Sea South, St. John's & Elba Reef (11 Days / 10 Nights - 26 Dives)

Trip highlights: dolphins, manta rays, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Abu Dabbab, Rocky Island, Elba Reef, Fury Shoals: Dolphin Reef (Sataya), St. John's (Habili Ali, Umm Kharalim & Gota Kebir), Wadi Gamal, Marsa Shouna, Elphinstone

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you to Port Ghalib where the dive cruise ship is moored. The journey takes about 3 hours, or just 10 minutes if you have landed at Marsa Alam Airport. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about the Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-10
This itinerary has been specifically tailored for serious scuba divers who want to enjoy a cruise in the Red Sea with no traffic, providing an ideal underwater environment for all types of divers particularly for underwater videographers and photographers. Part of Elba Reef is in Sudanese waters and special permission has been granted from the Egyptian Navy to dive this pristine and remote reef. During the trip you will also be diving the famous and untouched 113m long Italian Levanzo wreck, built in March 1901 and sunk on 14 March 1923, laying on one of the beautiful Elba reefs at 22-75m in depth.
One of the more current-swept regions of the Red Sea is Rocky Island. Here the nutrient-rich water movement gives rise to healthy gorgonian fans, black coral trees and sponges. Often found sheltering in quieter spots are turtles, grey reef sharks, silvertips, and perhaps also mantas and dolphins. Manta rays and dolphins are also common visitors. In the deep south of Egypt you will have the chance to dive St. John’s Reefs and the Fury Shoals, the healthiest and most colourful in the Red Sea, with their fantastic drop offs, pinnacles, canyons, caves and tunnels, and amazing hard-corals. Sataya, with its resident spinner dolphin population, is a must for snorkelling between dives, as well as having some good underwater offerings, including dugongs and mantas. Wadi Gimal is just to the south of Marsa Alam and is one of Egypt's largest national parks, There are many sites that would suit divers of all levels, featuring big tuna, barracudas, whitetip reef sharks, turtles and Napoleon wrasse.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Port Ghalib.

Day 11
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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Red Sea North, Wrecks & Tiran Straits (8 Days / 7 Nights - 21 Dives)

Trip highlights: turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Ras Mohamed, Straits of Tiran (Jackson, Woodhouse, Thomas, Gordon, Laguna reefs), Thistlegorm, Shaab Mahmoud, Shag Rock, Abu Nuhas wrecks (Giannis D, Carnatic, Kimon M, Chrisoula K)

Day 1
A representative of Blue Planet Liveaboards will collect you from Hurghada Airport, help with the visa on arrival procedures, and retrieve your luggage. Take a seat in the air-conditioned van that will take you in just 20 minutes to Hurghada Marina where the dive cruise ship is moored. Leave your scuba bag in your personal dive box and take the remaining baggage into the cabin assigned to you. The tour guide will give a detailed briefing about the Blue Seas features, safety procedures, what to expect from the diving and other general information. During dinner you will meet the other guests and chat about the reefs you're likely to visit. The boat will leave port on the next day, visiting a dive site ideal for a check dive.

Days 2-7
The safari will take you to some of the most iconic wrecks that the Red Sea has to offer. You will surely have fun while diving the SS Thistlegorm which lies at 32m and is now home to a great variety of marine life, with large schools of fish circling it. The north side of Abu Nuhas features 4 wrecks on a sandy seafloor at the bottom of a steep sloping reef layered with table corals. Wrecks here include the Giannis D, the Carnatic, and the Chrisoula K. Each of them will be a great dive! Tiran is world famous for its exceptional variety of corals and its strong southwestern currents. It’s home of a lot of big fish in the Red Sea.
Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. Hot coffee and cookies will help you waking up for the 1st morning dive that will be introduced by a dive briefing. There are 3 main meals per day served in buffet style. Breakfast happens just before the 2nd dive and usually consists of toast and pancakes with jam and honey, while eggs can be cooked as you prefer, then yoghurt, hot coffee and tea. The ingredients for the main meals are chicken, beef or fresh fish. Rice, noodles, potatoes and various vegetables and salads are the healthy options to choose from. Pudding, cakes or fruit as desserts. Lunch is scheduled to be before the 3rd dive, while dinner follows the 4th (night) dive.
Please note that there will only 2 dives on the last full day of the tour. The final night is spent again in Hurghada.

Day 8
Wake up and enjoy a light breakfast before checking out from this amazing diving safari. You will be transferred back to the airport or hotel.

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[Information is best estimate in ideal circumstances and subject to changes beyond our control. The itinerary is a guide only and may be adapted to best suit the weather, tides, currents, availability and other prevailing events. Price is for the cruise, not for an exact number of dives].

There are 12 cabins on this Egypt liveaboard consisting of 7 twin bed cabins and 1 double bed cabin located on the lower deck and 2 double bed cabins and 2 twin bed cabins on the upper decks. The double bed cabin on the lower deck is spacious and is suitable as a 'honeymoon suite'. All the cabins feature private en-suite bathroom facilities.

All the cabins have: No. of bathrooms / showers - 13 / 13 - hot water

Crew comprises: Nitrox - 2 x 25 HP motorised dinghies - Large dive deck and platform with hot water showers and toilet - 3 separate rinse tanks and table for cameras - Charging points for electrical scuba equipment - 80m² air-conditioned saloon with TV, DVD and music players, library with magazines, novels, fish ID books & games - Dining area with well-stocked bar - Upper deck bar lounge - Shaded flybridge with sunbathing matresses - Sun deck in bow with fitted matresses - 40m² outside shaded area - Water and juice dispenser

• The menu on M/Y Blue Seas consists of international, Asian and the local cuisine of the Red Sea.
• The menus are not fixed and meals are served buffet style accompanied by waitress service, in the dedicated air-conditioned restaurant located on the main deck.
• Main meals comprise a pre-breakfast snack, breakfast, lunch & dinner, with snacks in between.
• Snacks include biscuits, candy bars, ice cream, bread/toast, cake and fruit, which along with a variety of teas, coffee, water and soft drinks are all complimentary.
• Beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks are available for purchase on board.
• All diets, including vegetarian and halal, can be catered for with prior notice.
• Catering starts with lunch for early arrivals on the tour check-in day.

Example dishes: Breakfast - cereals, pancakes, selection of cold meats and cheeses, eggs, toast; Salads, Moussaka, pasta dishes, kebabs, falafel, creme caramel.

Customer reviews:

"The boat is roomy and comfortable. The diving guides are quite professional and the liveaboard boat staff are friendly. The only problem I faced was that I could not rent a waterproof torch." - Takeshi Watanabe, Japan, 14 June 2010 ...