Sunlight

MV Sunlight is a 34m long Egyptian liveaboard boat that offers economy diving cruises throughout the Southern Red Sea. It was completely renovated in 2019 and now takes 20 scuba divers to such places as the beautiful and vibrant reefs of St. John’s , Abu Fendera and Fury Shoals, and the Brothers Islands, Daedalus Reef and other marine parks in the south, where pelagic sharks and manta rays are among the chief attractions.

The cabins each have a private bathroom, single and double twin beds with daily housekeeping, and air-conditioning. Toiletries are complimentary, and cabin, deck and beach towels are all provided.

The air-conditioned indoor saloon has both a lounge area with sofa seating, TV and audio entertainment with a large selection of films, a book library, and dining section. Wifi is available onboard too. The upper deck has a partially covered outdoor area, ideal for enjoying the sea breezes and Egyptian sunshine. There is also an open-air bar where guests can recount their dive adventures of the day and enjoy a sundowner or two: Sunlight is known for its fun atmosphere onboard and there is a JBL Bar Studio Speaker with Bluetooth on the sundeck to help with the party atmosphere.

Diving activities are conducted from the 2 accompanying zodiacs or straight from the deep dive platform, depending on access to the site. The dive deck features personal storage crates, wetsuit drying rails, gear rinse tanks, camera table and a charging station, and of course a dive platform with egress ladder for access to/from the sea. There will be an opportunity yo visit the lightouses on Brothers and Daedalus, and sometimes the captain will arrange zodiac rides during surface intervals. Guests can also use a SUP-board to explore the sea.

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Dive experience: Recommended: St. John's, Brothers, Daedalus & Elphinstone liveaboard safaris - Open Water diver license and 50 logged dives.

Cruise price per person includes: Scheduled group transfers from local airport/central hotels to boat on cruise departure day and boat return day (2nd last day), cabin accommodation with air-conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, soft drinks, drinking water, hot drinks (e.g. instant coffee, tea), dives (as detailed in the trips above), nitrox fills for enriched air certified divers, 2 experienced English-speaking divemasters, tanks, weights, all taxes.

Cruise price per person excludes (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Service fees (i.e. crew tips: US$ 62 per week), park fees (US$ 62 per week), port fees (US$ 52 per trip), scuba equipment (US$ 15 per day), diving insurance, Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival (cash only - EUR, GBP, USD, CHF).

Optional extras: Alcoholic drinks (beer and wine, should be pre-booked), dive computer (US$ 10 per day), torch (US$ 1 per day), 15 litre tank (US$ 46 per week), private transfer (approx. US$ 72 per way). 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: The MV Sunlight uses the ports of Hurghada and Port Ghalib. Check in time starts at 7 pm on the first day (boat departs the next morning), For Hurghada departures, return transfers from the local airport are provided once boarding begins. If you are staying in a hotel in Hurghada, you will be collected early morning on the second day and transferred to the boat For Port Ghalib departures, return transfers from the local airport are provided once boarding begins. There is also a shuttle service at 8 pm to transfer guests from Hurghada. For more details, including airlines, see our travel information section for the Red Sea..
The last dive of the trip will be at around 10 am on the second last day of the trip. Check out before 10 am on the final day (last night is usually spent on the boat in the harbour). Please wait at least 18 hours before flying after diving.

Non-diver rate: 20%.

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 75% of the published price for their own cabin.

Dive clubs and group discounts: Pay for 7 guests and 1 additional person can join the cruise free of charge, pay for 13 guests and 2 additional persons can join .

Whole boat charter rate (per night): Please ask us for details.

Add-on package: Visitors can reserve the wonderful antiquities tours to create a holiday of a lifetime.
You can see the pharaohs and royal mummies at Cairo Muesum, the pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, a fantastic cruise along the River Nile to the Valley of the Kings … all the world famous attractions of ancient Egypt and much more can be added on to your Red Sea liveaboard diving cruise.

Red Sea South (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 Dabbab, Rocky, Zabargad, Fury Shoals: Sataya, Claudio, Malahi, Maksour; Elphinstone, Shaab Shona

Day 1
You will be met at Marsa Alam Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to Port Ghalib for boarding. Alternatively you can join the group minibus shuttle service from Hurghada Airport at 8 pm. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-7
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, and silvertips. Manta rays and dolphins are also common visitors. Zabargad is an island populated by soldierfish, wrasses and schools of snappers. It features walls, drop-offs and shallow coral gardens.
The Fury Shoals is a vast reef system. Sha'ab Claudio is a classic dive with its famous swim-throughs and huge porites corals, Malahi with its mazes and friendly turtles, and Abu Galawa Soraya with its fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat smothered with glassfish. Sataya, with its resident spinner dolphin population, is a must for snorkelling between dives, as well as having some good underwater offerings.
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea (but only 3 dives when in the marine parks), with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 8
Disembarkation starts after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.

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Brothers, Daedalus & Elphinstone (8 Days / 7 Nights - 18 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: Brothers islands, Daedalus Reef, Elphinstone

Day 1
You will be met at Hurghada Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to the tourist harbour for boarding late afternoon. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-7
The Brother Islands are 2 small exposed promontories in the middle of the sea, with a very high concentration of marine life. The walls feature sponges, anemones and hard and soft corals, giving an astonishing variety of colour to the underwater world. It's very common to see sharks at the dive sites around the islands - scalloped hammerheads and grey reef sharks, silvertip and whitetip reef sharks. At Big Brother there is a wreck that can be dived when the conditions are right, especially if it's not too windy. It's the Numidia that lies between 5-8m, completely covered with hard and soft corals. and gorgonians. The reef at Daedalus and Elphinstone are home to schools of surgeonfish, fusiliers, trevallies and colourful reef fish. Hammerheads, oceanic whitetips and thresher sharks can be seen here, as well as manta rays, usually during the summer months.
3 dives a day are the norm in the marine parks of the Red Sea, with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 8
Disembarkation starts after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.
Note: these cruises sometimes use Port Ghalib instead of Hurghada so please check the ports of departure and return.

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Daedalus, Fury Shoals & Elphinstone (8 Days / 7 Nights - 19 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: Abu Dabbab, Daedalus Reef, Fury Shoals: Shaab Sataya, Shaab Claudio, El Malahi, Abu Galawa, Shaab Maksour; Elphinstone, Marsa Shona

Day 1
You will be met at Marsa Alam Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to Port Ghalib for boarding early evening. Alternatively you can join the evening group minibus shuttle service from Hurghada Airport. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-7
The reefs at Daedalus and Elphinstone are home to schools of surgeonfish, fusiliers, trevallies and colourful reef fish. Hammerheads, oceanic whitetips and thresher sharks can be seen here, as well as manta rays, usually during the summer months. The reef system at Fury Shoals offers amazing scuba diving opportunities with some of the most pristine reefs in Egypt, including small caves, reef blocks, plateaus, canyons, coral gardens and drop-offs, not to mention resident dugongs and pods of dolphins. Other creatures you could encounter on this tour include dugongs, turtles and Napoleon wrasse
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea (but only 3 dives when in the marine parks), with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 8
Disembarkation starts after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.

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Red Sea South (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 Dabbab, Daedalus Reef, Rocky, Zabargad, Fury Shoals: Sataya, Claudio, Malahi, Maksour; Elphinstone, Shaab Shona

Day 1
You will be met at Marsa Alam Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to Port Ghalib for boarding at 7 pm. Alternatively you can join the group minibus shuttle service from Hurghada Airport at 8 pm. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-7
Daedalus Reef is home to schools of surgeonfish, fusiliers, trevallies and colourful reef fish. Hammerheads, oceanic whitetips and thresher sharks can be seen here, as well as manta rays, usually during the summer months. 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, and silvertips. Manta rays and dolphins are also common visitors. Zabargad is an island populated by soldierfish, wrasses and schools of snappers. It features walls, drop-offs and shallow coral gardens.
The Fury Shoals is a vast reef system. Sha'ab Claudio is a classic dive with its famous swim-throughs and huge porites corals, Malahi with its mazes and friendly turtles, and Abu Galawa Soraya with its fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat smothered with glassfish. Sataya, with its resident spinner dolphin population, is a must for snorkelling between dives, as well as having some good underwater offerings.
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea (but only 3 dives when in the marine parks), with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 8
Disembarkation starts at around 10 am, after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.

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Red Sea South & St. John's Reefs (8 Days / 7 Nights - 19 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: Abu Dabbab, Rocky Island, Zabargad, St. John's: Dangerous, Habili Ali, Habili Gaffar, Mikauwa island, Abu Galawa; Fury Shoals: Sataya, Claudio, Malahi, Maksour; Elphinstone, Shaab Shona

Day 1
You will be met at Marsa Alam Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to Port Ghalib for boarding at 7 pm. Alternatively you can join the group minibus shuttle service from Hurghada Airport at 8 pm. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-7
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, and silvertips. Manta rays and dolphins are also common visitors. Zabargad is an island populated by soldierfish, wrasses and schools of snappers. It features walls, drop-offs and shallow coral gardens. Elphinstone has steep current-swept walls and exposed points, making it perfect for encounters with big marine life like oceanic whitetip sharks.
In the deep south of Egypt you will have the chance to dive St. John’s Reefs, the healthiest and most colourful in the Red Sea, with their fantastic drop offs, pinnacles, canyons, caves and tunnels, and amazing hard-corals. There is a lot of marine life too, such as barracuda, different types of reef shark, sometimes even turtles, Napoleon wrasse, dolphins, dugongs and mantas.
The Fury Shoals is a vast reef system. Sha'ab Claudio is a classic dive with its famous swim-throughs and huge porites corals, Malahi with its mazes and friendly turtles, and Abu Galawa Soraya with its fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat smothered with glassfish. Sataya, with its resident spinner dolphin population, is a must for snorkelling between dives, as well as having some good underwater offerings.
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea (but only 3 dives when in the marine parks), with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 8
Disembarkation starts at around 10 am, after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.

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Brothers & Safaga (8 Days / 7 Nights - 20 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: Abu Ramada, Small Giftun Island, Abu Hasheesh, Tobia Arbaa, Panorama, Middle Reef, Shaab Shear, Abu Kafan, Salem Express, Big Brother, Little Brother

Day 1
You will be met at Hurghada Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to the tourist harbour for boarding. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-7
The Brother Islands are 2 small exposed promontories in the middle of the sea, with a very high concentration of marine life. The walls feature sponges, anemones and hard and soft corals, giving an astonishing variety of colour to the underwater world. It's very common to see sharks at the dive sites around the islands. Bucket list encounters include hammerheads, grey reef sharks, silvertips, whitetip reef sharks, thresher sharks and manta rays.
Safaga has some great diving too, offering a combination of shallow reef dives like Panorama Reef, and drop-offs, as well as unforgettable wreck diving on the Salem Express, a 100-metre ferry boat that hosts frogfish, blue-spotted stingrays, schools of angel and butterfly fish. The ship is now covered in hard and soft corals.
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea (but only 3 dives when in the marine parks), with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 8
Disembarkation starts after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.

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Red Sea North & 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: Shaab El Erg, Abu Nuhas wrecks: Giannis D, Carnatic, Chrisoula K. and Kimon M;, Shaab Mahmoud, Ras Mohamed, Straits of Tiran: Jackson, Thomas, Gordon and Woodhouse reefs; Ras Um Sid, Thistlegorm, Gubal Island, Umm Gamar

Day 1
You will be met at Hurghada Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to the tourist harbour for boarding early evening. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-7
You will dive at some very special and world famous reefs and wrecks. Ras Mohamed is one of the best kept national parks in Egypt. Its waters are rich in nutrients, attracting pelagics. Tiran is world famous for its exceptional variety of corals and its strong southwestern currents. It’s home to a lot of big fish and in the summer months even schools of scalloped hammerheads might visit. The Thistlegorm is one of the most fascinating wrecks in the Red Sea. It is a British ship that was hit by a German bomb during World War II. It lies at 32m, on a sandy sea bottom with its cargo ready for you to explore: trucks, motorcycles, jeeps, car tyres, military uniforms... 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!
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea, with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 8
Disembarkation starts after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.

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Red Sea South & St. John's Reefs (12 Days / 11 Nights - 32 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: Marsa Torombi, Brothers, Daedalus Reef, Rocky Island, Zabargad, St. John's: Dangerous, Habili Ali, Habili Gaffar, Mikauwa island, Abu Galawa; Fury Shoals: Sataya, Claudio, Malahi, Maksour; Elphinstone, Abu Dabbab, Shaab Shona

Day 1
You will be met at Marsa Alam Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to Port Ghalib for boarding in the early evening. Alternatively you can join the group minibus shuttle service from Hurghada Airport at 8 pm. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

Days 2-11
The famous Brother Islands are 2 undersea mountains that rise from the depths and act as a magnet for sea life, offering breath-taking drift dives with a wide variety of pelagics. Their walls are covered in sponges, soft corals, black corals and gorgonian seafans, lending an astonishing variety of colour. Bucket list encounters include hammerheads, grey reef sharks and silvertips. Big tuna, schools of trevallies and snapper cruise by in the blue. You may also dive on the wreck Aida II, an Egyptian supply vessel, and the Numidia, a cargo ship that lies in the shallows of Big Brother Island. They are covered in soft and hard corals and are unforgettable. Daedalus Reef is home to schools of surgeonfish, fusiliers, trevallies and reef fish. Hammerheads, oceanic whitetips and thresher sharks can be seen here, as well as manta rays, especially during the summer months.
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, and silvertips. Manta rays and dolphins are also common visitors. Zabargad is an island populated by soldierfish, wrasses and schools of snappers. It features walls, drop-offs and shallow coral gardens.
In the deep south of Egypt you will have the chance to dive St. John’s Reefs, the healthiest and most colourful in the Red Sea, with their fantastic drop offs, pinnacles, canyons, caves and tunnels, and amazing hard-corals. There is a lot of marine life too, such as barracuda, different types of reef shark, sometimes even turtles, Napoleon wrasse, dolphins, dugongs and mantas. The Fury Shoals is a vast reef system. Sha'ab Claudio is a classic dive with its famous swim-throughs and huge porites corals, Malahi with its mazes and friendly turtles, and Abu Galawa Soraya with its fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat smothered with glassfish. Sataya, with its resident spinner dolphin population, is a must for snorkelling between dives, as well as having some good underwater offerings.
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea (but only 3 dives when in the marine parks), with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 12
Disembarkation starts after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local hotel.

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Red Sea South, St. John's & Elba Reef (12 Days / 11 Nights - 28 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: Rocky Island, Zabargad, St. John's: Dangerous Reef, Habili Ali, Habili Gaffar, Mikauwa island, Abu Galawa; Fury Shoals: Sataya, Claudio, Malahi, Maksour; Elphinstone, Abu Dabbab, Marsa Shona, Elba Reef

Day 1
You will be met at Marsa Alam Airport by a representative of Sunlight liveaboard and transferred in a minibus to Port Ghalib for boarding early evening. Alternatively you can join the group minibus shuttle service from Hurghada Airport at 8 pm. The crew will welcome you on board, show you to your cabin and provide a detailed boat briefing that will help familiarize you with your new home for next few days. Dinner will be served in the saloon and this will be a great opportunity to get to know the other guests on this cruise in the Red Sea. The boat will leave port early morning to begin diving.

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. Elba is a pristine and remote reef on the Sudanese border and 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, and silvertips. Manta rays and dolphins are also common visitors. Zabargad is a site populated by soldierfish, wrasses and schools of snappers. It features walls, drop-offs and shallow coral gardens.
Among the best sites of the deep south are the St John’s Reefs and Fury Shoals, some of the most colorful and healthy sites in Egypt. The dive sites are characterised by caves, tunnels, drop-offs, canyons, pinnacles and amazing hard corals. Marine life includes reef sharks, barracuda, and if you are in luck, manta rays and dolphins. This tour also visits the Fury Shoals. This reef system offers amazing scuba diving opportunities with pods of dolphins and some of the most pristine reefs in Egypt.
4 dives a day are the norm in the Red Sea, with a couple of morning dives followed by a 3rd dive in the afternoon, and either a sunset dive or night dive to end each amazing day of underwater discovery. There will only 2 dives on the penultimate day as the boat will then sail back to port.
All meals are freshly prepared by a professional chef and sous-chef and served buffet style. At breakfast you will find a varieties of eggs, toast and preserves, fresh vegetables ordered from local farmers, a selection of cheeses and luncheons, pancakes, sausages and classic porridge. Fresh ground coffee is available during breakfast. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate, soft drinks, as well as snacks, are available at all times in the dining area. A variety of meat, chicken, fish, pasta, rice and vegetable dishes, served with a choice of salad and soup, will satisfy your hunger at lunch time, while dinner options might include roast duck with cashew rice and orange sauce, roast beef with mushroom gravy, lasagna al forno, freshly baked jackfish, basmati rice and sautéed vegetables. There is a cocktail bar in the open-air upper deck social area which is a great place to enjoy a sundowner.

Day 12
Disembarkation starts after a final breakfast on the boat. You can arrange with the crew to be transported back to the airport or to a local 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 10 cabins on Sunlight, all have private bathrooms. 8 of the cabins are on the lower deck and have twin single and double bunk beds. There are also 2 deluxe suites at the front of the upper deck, 1 with a double bed, and 1 with convertible double/twin beds.

All the cabins have: No. of bathrooms / showers - 12 / 12 - hot water

Note: hot water and air-con are not available on the final night in the tourist harbour on cruises that end in Hurghada.

Customer reviews:

"A Russian woman and I were given the top VIP room. My mattress flew off the bed during a wavy night and I ended up on the floor with my mattress on top of me. The water pressure was very very low in the shower and there was never hot water. The doors to the toilet and shower were very difficult to open and close. The owner of the boat told me that this was the first voyage with the VIP room renovations...The wetsuit that I ordered was too small for me... but in general the crew was great, the dive guides were great, but there were a number of LARGE issues; this boat was not up to the standards at all... About 1 week before, I received the info that the boat was coming back to HURGHADA not Marsa Alam as it had said - the change was not communicated enough in advance to me." - Monica Siegel, Canada, 1 May 2023 ...