Golden Dolphin III

The Golden Dolphin fleet sails a wide variety of routes in the Red Sea.

Further detailed information about the routings, dates & availabilities can be found in the overview above or can also be requested at any time via office@maldivesandmore.com at any time.

NEW ROUTING - ELBA REEF
Golden Dolphin Safari World is one of the few fleets authorized to dive Elba Reef - directly on the Sudanese border.

Enclosed you will find a few more routing descriptions:

St. Johns - Elba Reef

• Deep in the south (near Rocky Island) are the St. Johns Reefs, which still offer an almost untouched underwater world. Breathtaking steep walls on Big Habili and Small Habili, overgrown with large fan corals, gorgonians and soft corals in all colors, promise fantastic dives. A look into the blue water can be highly rewarding: Large fish such as sharks, barracudas and schools of mackerel and tuna are not uncommon here. If you are lucky, you may also come across manta rays and dolphins. At a depth of 12m to 30m, there are various blocks next to the main reef, which are reminiscent of many everyday figures in shape and size. Heavily populated by schooling fish, moray eels and camouflage artists of all kinds, a night dive on the main reef is also worthwhile. St. John's Cave - this chain of five reefs lives up to its name. Umm Hararim impresses with its unique cave system.
  
  Elba Reef is located in the Halaib Triangle on the Egyptian and Sudanese border with beautiful plateaus on its northern and southern sides. It is a triangular reef, the plateau in the north is long and starts at about 20m and ends at about 45m depth. Huge coral fans can be found on the edge of the plateau.

  One of the main attractions on the edge of a deep abyss on the southern plateau is the large wreck of the "SS Isola di Levanzo", which sank at the beginning of the 20th century. It is a rarely visited beautiful wreck surrounded by scattered sherry bottles on the seabed. The ship's propeller lies at 18m and the entire upper or stern section can be penetrated.

  Further along the coast, the reef is relatively shallow but well vegetated with a variety of corals. There is a lot of underwater life around the reef, as everything from reef species to sharks can be spotted.

North - Wreck Tour

• The Blue Thistle, as Thistlegorm is called in German, is probably the most famous wreck in the Red Sea. The British ship was on its way to Egypt to supply the British Africa Corps with supplies when it was attacked by a German bomber on the night of the full moon on October 6, 1941 and sank. The wreck lies upright on the seabed at a depth of 30 meters and makes many a diver's heart beat faster.
• The Abu Nuhas reef north of Shedwan Island seems to be cursed, because although its beacon shines far and wide, it is home to four very famous wrecks that attract divers from all over the world.
• A fascinating story revolves around the steamship Dunraven, which was transporting wool, cotton bales and spices from Bombay to Newcastle when it ran aground on the reef edge at the southern end of Shaab Mahmoud on the night of April 22, 1876, caught fire and sank.
• Ras Mohammed National Park offers fantastic dive sites, such as JOLANDA and SHARK REEF. The two reefs are close to each other on a plateau whose edges drop off to a depth of more than 700m. Due to the exposed location and the current conditions, the plateau is an "aquarium" of superlatives

North - SS Turkia