Here I was again, in Egypt for my 5th time! This time on a “Project Shark” expedition to the more remote dive sites of Egypt. Our liveaboard included 24 of us from the Dive Charters Gibraltar dive club. We left early the next morning in the direction of Daedalus Reef. A few hours after leaving port, we stopped for our first check dive at a reef local to Hurghada. During lunch, we travelled further south to Panorama Reef, here we did our second dive of the day. After this dive

Photo: Kerstin Olbrich, Team Blue Immersion A few years back, I saw an article about this dive site titled “The Deadliest Dive Site in the World”. I don’t know why, but in intrigued me! I started doing a lot of online research and looking at youtube videos. I decided to put this dive site down on my bucket list. Anyone can dive the Blue Hole of Dahab, from kids snorkelling to Open Water Divers. But this is a special site. It is a sink hole that drops down to more than 100 met

Woooow my first shark encounter … and it was with the majestic Oceanic White Tip Shark! Well here I was again on a liveaboard in Egypt for the second time this year. I had already booked the one I did in March ages ago before my club booked a whole boat just for us for November, just months after I had already booked my March trip, but I couldn’t refuse not going. This liveaboard took us down to Brothers Islands, after completing a check dive, another dive and night dive at a

Well my dive trip started the day before! I had to catch a plane from Gibraltar to London Gatwick to then get a connecting flight the following morning to Hurghada, Egypt! A bit of a challenge when you are travelling alone carrying 4 cases! It wasn’t my first time to Hurghada. I had visited just over a year ago whilst on my historical land tour of Egypt, and had managed to fit in a few dives on some of the reefs in Hurghada, but this was my first dive trip to Egypt, and also