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The best dive sites in Hurghada, and who each one suits
Six reefs and two wrecks we actually dive, what you see on each, and how the captain picks the day's sites out of them.
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Written on the boat, not at a desk
Red Sea diving guides
What our guides would tell you the night before your first dive. Two sets of articles, one for Hurghada and one for Marsa Alam, because the diving is not the same thing in both places.
Two bases and two very different kinds of diving, so the guides are split the same way. Everything here is written by the people who run the boats, and every price in an article comes live from our booking system rather than being typed into the text.
Northern Red Sea
Diving in Hurghada
Boat days out of Hurghada: which reefs you get, how a day on the water actually runs, when to come, and how the Open Water course works from here.
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What a diving day in Hurghada actually looks like
Pickup to drop off, hour by hour: what happens, what you need to bring, and where the waiting is.
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7 min read
The best time of year to dive in Hurghada
Month by month sea temperatures, what the wind does, when visibility is best, and the honest trade offs in each season.
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Doing your PADI Open Water in Hurghada: boat start or pool start
What the course covers, the two ways we start it, how the days are laid out, and what is and is not included.
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Diving in Marsa Alam
Four hours south and a different kind of diving: dugongs on the seagrass, spinner dolphins offshore, and reefs you walk into from the beach.
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Where to see a dugong in Marsa Alam
The two bays worth your time, what a dugong actually is, the rules that keep them there, and honest odds.
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Swimming with spinner dolphins: Sataya and Shaab Samadai
The two dolphin reefs in the south, how the day runs, the rules in the protected zones, and why this is a snorkel and not a dive.
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Shore diving in Marsa Alam: how the week really works
Two dives a day straight off the beach, a different bay each time, and no boat schedule to keep.
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