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It's all About Your Diving Holiday

At DiveWiz Hurghada, we strive to give you an unforgettable diving experience in the Red Sea.

Diving is your passion, as it is for us, so it is not just a job for us. It is a part of who we are.

Caring for our customers starts from the early beginning by setting our professional standards high and carefully choosing our team members who we trust will do their best to give you the best diving experience possible.

That goes as well for choosing our boats, facilities, equipment, transportations, and anything would help us make your holiday experience with us enjoyable.

We believe that diving is safe fun. Therefore safety considerations are always a priority for us.

About us - DiveWiz Hurghada Diving Center, Red Sea, Egypt

Who We Are!

We are a multinational team of professionals dedicated to offering you an enjoyable diving holiday in the Red Sea.

Our office in Hurghada, headed by Mahmoud Alaa, manages the daily activities with an outstanding team of diving professionals.

Our office in Cyprus, headed by Mohamed Elmekkawi, manages the administrative part with a specialized team of professional marketers, sales, customer support.

Meet The Co-Founders

Mohamed Elmekkawi

Diving: Since 2004

- PADI IDC Staff instructor.
- PADI Freediving Instructor.
- Egypt national record holder – Static breath-hold.
- Was the first Egyptian Freediving Instructor certified by AIDA and SSI organizations.

Location: Cyprus

Role: Responsible for the business development of DiveWiz. Together with the administrative team in Cyprus, we take care of customer support and marketing projects.

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Mahmoud Alaa

Diving: Since 2007

- PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer.
- CMAS One Star Instructor.

Location: Hurghada

Role: Responsible for managing the daily activities at DiveWiz, together with the diving team in Hurghada.
Mahmoud is an original Hurghadaian. Hence, he knows the Red Sea like the back of his hand.
He is your best bet if you want to have an excellent diving holiday in the Red Sea of Hurghada.

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customers satisfaction is our greatest asset

”This was an amazing Diving Holiday in the Red Sea! There were so many things to see underwater… our outstanding, kind, patient, diving instructor Mahmoud, made it very comfortable and enjoyable for us!
Thank you very much DiveWiz team!”

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Tania John H.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

“I have done my PADI Open water course with these guys, and my instructor Mr. Mahmoud was very professional and patient with the other student and me. He always answers our questions with a smile.
Thanks, and see you again in a few months.”

James Maison.

PADI Open water diver

“I am a big lover of the Red Sea, and this is the second diving holiday in the Red sea with DiveWiz. And I am thrilled with how they take care of every detail to make it easy and comfortable for their divers.
Thanks, guys. “

Claudia A.

PADI Divemaster

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North & Brothers - Best of the Red Sea.

Length of trip: 8 Days / 7 Nights.
Departure: Check in 4 pm - Port Ghalib.
Return: Check out at 10 am - Hurghada.
Dives: Approximately 19 dives in total.
Experience: Advanced Open Water - 30 minimum logged dives required.

This is a sample of the type of itinerary for this area of the Red Sea, and the planned dive sites and the proposed route cannot be guaranteed. The weather can affect all the dive sites, and the itinerary, final route, and the decision to dive are at the absolute discretion of the captain and the dive guides.

General tour process: Depending on route and weather conditions.

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 06:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 7: (last day before departure): 2 dives, according to your departure time, 24 hours surface time recommended before the flight and back into the marina depending on the organization or because of technical reasons it is possible to accommodate our guests last night in a hotel.

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

An ideal itinerary for those wanting a taste of variety, allowing you to experience world-famous wrecks and pristine reefs.

SS. Thistlegorm – Shaab Ali: Probably the most famous of the Red Sea Wrecks. The 129m English Freighter was bombed by German aviation on 6th October 1941. Today she creates an artificial reef on a sandy bottom at 32m max depth. She is home to an enormous variety of marine life and is especially popular with large schooling fish.

Abu Nuhas: Also known as the ‘Ships Graveyard’, this reef is dangerously positioned close to the busy shipping lanes of the Gulf of Suez. This reef has claimed more ships than any other in the area. On the north side are four wrecks laying on a sandy seafloor at the bottom of a steep sloping reef layered with table corals. On the south side is a safe anchorage for liveaboards and two ergs, known as Yellow Fish Reef.

Giannis D – Abu Nuhas: In 26m of water and leaning to port with a fully intact stern section and an impressive engine room packed with glassfish.

Carnatic – Abu Nuhas: A British P&O steamer struck the reef in 1869. She lays in 29m and now the whole hull is draped in multicolored soft corals. The wreck is home to glassfish, octopus, morays, jacks, and tuna cruise overhead.

Big Brother Island: A 400-meter long island offering fabulous wreck diving and wall diving. The wreck of the Numidia lies on the northern tip between 10 and 80 meters. The northwest side of the island houses the wreck of the Aida. Every section of this reef is covered with corals and life.

Small Brother Island: From its name, you can guess that it is a little smaller than Big Brother Island! It is surrounded by walls, covered in soft corals. The dives can be challenging but are definitely rewarding. Sightings of large pelagic are very common and the beautiful Gorgonia Fan coral forest is an awe-inspiring sight.

Small Crack: This is a small split in the middle of Shaab Mahmoud’s barrier. Drift along the outside wall next to beautiful corals and colorful fish. Look for a sand slope that leads you up and through the crack. When the current is right you can fly through the 5m deep channel and be thrown out across the sandy lagoon!

Gobal Island: At the gate of the Straits of Global is ‘Bluff Point’, which gets its name from the turbulence created by strong currents that beat the eastern wall of the island. The wreck of the ‘Ulysses’ lies on the reef 300m north of the lighthouse, starting at 5m and sloping to 25m. ‘The Barge’ wreck, south of the lighthouse, provides divers with a fun and unusual night dive. The wrecks skeleton creates protection for all types of night creatures.

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Brothers, Daedalus, Elphinstone - Shark Triangle.

Length of trip: 8 Days / 7 Nights.
Departure: Check-in at 4 pm - Hurghada.
Return: Check-out at 10 am - Port Ghalib.
Dives: Approximately 19 dives in total.
Experience: Advanced Open Water - 30 minimum logged dives required.

General tour process:

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 04:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

Overview:

The Brother Islands (El Akhawein) are the pinnacles of two undersea mountains rising from the depths of the abyss 300m deep and are located about 60 miles offshore. Big Brother, which is easily identified with its lighthouse, is about 100 meters across and 400 meters in length, with two extremities to the east and west. Little Brother lies about 800 meters east of Big Brother.

As part of the Marine Park Islands National Park, these islands offer stunning wall diving and a breath-taking display of color with their rich variety of soft corals and gorgonians which cover the walls. You will find large and small fish here in abundance; tuna, barracuda, shoals of snappers and jackfish, as well hammerheads, silky and oceanic whitetip sharks, and even the occasional thresher shark and manta ray. Sightings of the Grey Reef Shark are almost guaranteed on the North and South Plateaux of Small Brother.

For the wreck diver, the wrecks of the Aida II, an 82 m long Egyptian supply vessel that sank in 1957, and the Numidia, a cargo ship carrying locomotive spare parts to India, lie on the walls of the Big Brother. Both are covered in a rich growth of soft and hard corals. Marine life includes a family of Napoleon Wrasse and Grey Reef Sharks.

Daedalus Reef, also part of the Marine Park, is a large, oval reef with a lighthouse and is the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea. Its deep walls and drop-offs offer some of the most spectacular diving to be found. Daedalus has mountainous, pristine, hard coral formations. There is also a strong chance of spotting schooling Hammerheads, and grey reef sharks.

Elphinstone, with its sheer walls covered in soft corals, offers a likely encounter with Grey Reef Sharks circling on the plateaux and even Oceanic White Tip Sharks can be seen here for most of the year.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

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Brothers, Daedalus, Elphinstone - Shark Triangle.

Length of trip: 8 Days / 7 Nights.
Departure: Check-in at 4 pm - Port Ghalib.
Return: Check-out at 10 am - Hurghada.
Dives: Approximately 19 dives in total.
Experience: Advanced Open Water - 30 minimum logged dives required.

General tour process:

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 04:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

Overview:

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

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Rocky, Zabargad, St Johns, Fury Shoal, Elphinstone.

Length of trip: 8 Days / 7 Nights.
Departure: 6 pm - Port Ghalib.
Return: Check out at 10 am - Port Ghalib.
Dives: Approximately 18 dives in total.
Experience: Advanced Open Water - 50 minimum logged dives required.

General tour process:

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 06:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

Overview:
Zabargad Island is a wonderful dive site offering wall diving, a wreck, and shallow areas with dozens of slender coral towers. Here live a great many tropical groupers, which are easily approached and photographed during a dive without equals in its category. When diving here at night you will find octopus, crustaceans, and nudibranchs emerge from the crowd through the coral grottos.

Rocky Island is a small fossil-coral island that emerges from the surface, elliptical in shape, surrounded by a surface-level reef. The island sinks its walls down to more than 1000 meters of water. The walls are covered in soft corals and huge gorgonians which float and wave in the current. It is possible to sight many species of shark here as well as sailfish, dolphins and manta rays.

St John’s is a beautiful reef system which lies approx. 40km north of the Sudanese border and 20km South of Zabargad. It is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Habili Ali offers giant gorgonians and black corals whilst Grey Reef, Silvertip, and schools of Hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of Snappers, Butterfly Fish, and Barracudas. Mantas, Oceanic White Tip, Grey Reef, and Silvertip Sharks can be seen in the blue. Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and the south plateau where Jacks and Barracudas can be seen and the occasional manta. The tunnels are ideal for novice cave divers.

Gota Soraya is rated as possibly one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with overhangs and cracks in the reef wall full of GlassFish and Sweepers and an abundance of corals, Grey Reef, Silvertip, Oceanic White Tip, and Hammerheads.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

We need time to load the boats, clean, and do small maintenance. Therefore, we ask for your cooperation on arrival day that check-in cannot be before 04:00 pm. In case you check in before 04:00 pm, please consider the crew if they are still cleaning or loading the boat. The check-out time is normally at 10:00 am on your departure day at the latest. Due to organizational reasons, it might occur that you will have to stay in a hotel (half-board) as our guest for the last night of your trip.

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Deep South, St Johns, Fury Shoal, Elphinstone.

General tour process:

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 06:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

Overview:
Sailing to the southernmost reefs, these cruises depart from Marsa Ghalib To the vast reef system of Fury Shoals and St John’s.

At Fury Shoals, dive Shaab Claude with its famous swim-throughs and huge porite corals. White Tip Reef sharks and an anemone and clownfish settlement can be seen a little off the reef to the South. Abu Galawa Soraya has a fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat packed with glassfish.

Dive Shaab Sharm, with its wall dives and White Tip Reef sharks. Oceanic White Tips and Silky sharks can sometimes be found in the blue and turtles often visit the Southside before heading further south to Wadi Gamal, with its flowing banks of hard yellow and green soft coral, resident angel and butterflyfish, and in the right season, huge schools of placid jack and tuna visit the area.

St John’s is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Habili Ali offers giant gorgonians and black corals whilst Grey Reef, Silvertip, and schools of Hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of snappers, butterflyfish, and barracudas. Mantas, Grey Reef, and Silvertip sharks can be seen in the blue.

Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and south plateau, where jacks and barracudas can be seen and the occasional manta. The tunnels are ideal for novice cave divers.

Gota Soraya is rated as possibly one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with overhangs and cracks in the reef wall full of glassfish and sweepers and an abundance of corals, Grey Reef, Silvertips, and Hammerhead sharks.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

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Included: VAT, Drinking Water, Soft drinks, Tea & Coffee, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Cabin Towels.

Required Extras: Environment Tax, National Park Fees (150 EUR per trip), Port Fees.

Optional Extras: Gratuities, Airport Transfer (40-60 EUR per activity), Nitrox (60 EUR per week), Rental Gear.

Rental Gear Prices:
There is diving gear available on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. See below for further details on inclusions and pricing.

15L tanks: € 35 per week.
Dive Computer: € 35 per week.
Dive Light: € 30 per week.
Full Equipment (BCD, Fins, Mask, Regulator, Wetsuit): € 100 per week.
Nitrox tank: € 60 per week.

* Extra fees are shown per person.

Brothers, Daedalus, Elphinstone - Shark Triangle.

Length of trip: 8 Days / 7 Nights.
Departure: Check-in at 4 pm - Hurghada.
Return: Check-out at 10 am - Hurghada.
Dives: Approximately 19 dives in total.
Experience: Advanced Open Water - 30 minimum logged dives required.

General tour process:

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 04:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

Overview:

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

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Daedalus, Rocky, Zabargad, Fury Shoal, Elphinstone.

General tour process:

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 06:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

Overview:
Daedalus Reef, part of the Marine Park, is a large, oval reef with a lighthouse and is the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea.

Its deep walls and drop-offs offer some of the most spectacular diving in the Red Sea. Daedalus has mountainous, pristine, hard coral formations. There is also a strong chance of spotting schooling Hammerheads, Grey Reef Sharks, and Oceanic White Tip Sharks.

Further south is the spectacular overhangs and deep walls of Rocky Island and the abundance of soft coral and spectacular coral pinnacles at Zabargad.

Zabargad Island is a wonderful dive site offering wall diving, a wreck, and shallow areas with dozens of slender coral towers. Here live a great many tropical groupers, which are easily approached and photographed during a dive without equals in its category. When diving here at night you will find octopus, crustaceans, and nudibranchs emerge from the crowd through the coral grottos.

Rocky Island is a small fossil-coral island that emerges from the surface, elliptical in shape, surrounded by a surface-level reef. The island sinks its walls down to more than 1000 meters of water. The walls are covered in soft corals and huge gorgonians which float and wave in the current. It is possible to sight many species of shark here as well as sailfish, dolphins and manta rays.

St John’s is a beautiful reef system which lies approx. 40km north of the Sudanese border and 20km South of Zabargad. It is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Habili Ali offers giant gorgonians and black corals whilst Grey Reef, Silvertip, and schools of Hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of Snappers, Butterfly Fish, and Barracudas. Mantas, Oceanic White Tip, Grey Reef, and Silvertip Sharks can be seen in the blue. Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and the south plateau where Jacks and Barracudas can be seen and the occasional Manta. The tunnels are ideal for novice cave divers.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

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Daedalus & Fury Shoal, Elphinstone.

General tour process:

Day 1: Transfer from the airport and check-in onboard on the arrival day at 06:00 pm leaving the marina on the next day before noon (by authority).

Day 2: 3 dives

Day 3-6: 3-4 dives per day

Day 8: Check out and transfer back to the airport.

A great all-around tour for divers with slightly more experience. This safari provides you with some of the best diving in the Red Sea offering challenging dives, big drop-offs, beautiful coral walls, and plenty of large fish.

In the Fury Shoals system, the Sha’ab Claudio captivates divers and enthralls photographers with its shallow swim-through system, perfect for leisurely exploration.

With five entrances and exits and shallow in-depth, you’re never ‘lost’ and can just enjoy the shafts of light dancing through the caverns. Rays, nudibranchs, large Napoleon wrasse, and morays are all frequently spotted here. You may even see a white tip reef shark or turtle pass by.

Sha’ab Sataya is situated at the very south of Fury Shoals, this huge natural lagoon is formed by a massive reef (sha’ab) rising from the depths. The fame of Sataya is its steep drop-offs along with pelagic sightings and protected pinnacles smothered in soft and hard corals. But the real stars can be the huge pods of spinner dolphins that frequent here, meaning Sataya has become the ‘Dolphin House’ of Hamata.

Itinerary highlights Depending on prevailing weather conditions your guides will pick sites suitable for night dives outside the Marine Park.

Elphinstone reef: A Red Sea legend. One of the most beautiful reefs, with its north and south plateau, covered in hard and soft corals and visiting pelagics, this truly is an awesome reef.

Daedalus: About 180 km south of the Brother Islands you’ll find Daedalus Reef, this huge reef is also part of the Marine Park. It’s a large oval reef with a lighthouse and is the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea. The Reef is surrounded by a sheer wall and strong currents allowing for fantastic drift diving.

The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

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