Golden Dolphin III

The Golden Dolphin Fleet explores all sorts of fantastic routes across the Red Sea.

For more detailed info on our routes, dates, and availability, just check out the overview above, or feel free to drop us a line anytime at office@maldivesandmore.com.

NEW ROUTING – ELBA REEF
Guess what? The Golden Dolphin Safari World is one of the very few fleets that's actually allowed to dive the Elba Reef – it's right on the Sudanese border!

Here are a few more route descriptions for you:

St. Johns – Elba Reef

• Way down south, near Rocky Island, you'll discover the St. Johns Reefs, home to an almost untouched underwater world. Get ready for some incredible dives with breathtaking drop-offs at Big Habili and Small Habili, absolutely covered in huge fan corals, gorgonians, and soft corals in every color imaginable. Keep an eye out into the blue water – it's often super rewarding! You might spot big fish like sharks, barracudas, or even schools of mackerel and tuna. If you're lucky, you could even run into mantas and dolphins. Between 12m and 30m deep, alongside the main reef, you'll find various coral blocks that look like all sorts of everyday shapes. It's teeming with schooling fish, moray eels, and masters of camouflage, so a night dive at the main reef is definitely worth it. And then there's St. John's Cave – this chain of five reefs totally lives up to its name, with Umm Hararim boasting a truly unique cave system.
  
  The Elba Reef is located in the Halaib Triangle, right on the border between Egypt and Sudan, and it's got some really beautiful plateaus on its north and south sides. It's a triangular reef, and the northern plateau is long, starting around 20m deep and going down to about 45m. You'll find massive coral fans all along the edge of that plateau.

  One of the coolest things to see on the southern plateau, right on the edge of a deep drop-off, is the huge wreck of the "SS Isola di Levanzo," which sank way back at the start of the 20th century. It's a stunning wreck that hardly anyone visits, and you'll even find scattered sherry bottles all over the seabed around it. The ship's propeller sits at 18m, and you can explore the whole upper or stern section.

  Further along the coast, the reef is pretty shallow but beautifully covered with all sorts of corals. There's tons of lively underwater action around the reef, so you could spot anything from small reef critters to sharks!

North – Wreck Tour

• The Thistlegorm, which means 'Blue Thistle' in German, is probably the Red Sea's most famous wreck. This English ship was heading to Egypt to resupply the British Africa Corps when, on the full moon night of October 6, 1941, it was attacked by a German bomber and sank. The wreck now sits upright on the seabed at 30 meters deep, and trust us, it's a sight that gets any diver's heart racing!
• There seems to be a bit of a curse on the Abu Nuhas reef, just north of Shedwan Island. Even though its lighthouse shines brightly, it's home to four super famous wrecks that draw divers from all over the globe!
• There's a cool story about the steam sailer Dunraven. It was carrying wool, cotton bales, and spices from Bombay to Newcastle when, on the night of April 22, 1876, it hit the reef edge at the south end of Shaab Mahmoud, caught fire, and sank.
• Ras Mohammed National Park is home to some amazing dive sites, like the JOLANDA and SHARK REEF. These two reefs are super close on a plateau that drops down over 700 meters! Thanks to its exposed spot and strong currents, this plateau is truly an 'aquarium' like no other.

North – SS Turkia