The shipwrecks of the north Red Sea are famous for their preservation and the Red Sea offers visitors superb diving conditions to see them.  Many of the wrecks are famous whilst others are little known but equally fascinating.  All of them fall into a long, connected story that stretches from remote antiquity to modern times and reflects the changing way the Red Sea has been used throughout history.  We’ll dive as many of the wrecks as we can and tell you their individual stories, and then we’ll add something extra, an account of their times that gives the wrecks the significance and the place in history that they deserve.
Highlights of the tour include the collection of nineteenth century wrecks clustered around the mouth of the Gulf of Suez.  Between them they illuminate the great days of the British Empire and vividly illustrate the development of the ship during the days of change from sail to steam.  It isn’t possible to see this so conveniently or so clearly anywhere else in the world, these ships are a living museum.

Then there are two vessels from the darkest days of the Second World War that now lie on opposite sides of the shipping channel up to Suez.  Supposedly waiting in safe anchorages to pass the Canal they were bombed and sunk just two days apart in 1941.  Their cargoes can help us understand two desperate struggles for survival, in the North African desert and the seas of the Mediterranean.  Without countless little ships just like these the Second World War might have run a very different course.
We’ll also dive wrecks reflecting the modern world.  Life today is about speed and keeping costs down and that has sometimes resulted in maritime casualties.  Were they accidental or deliberate?  Who knows, but amongst others we’ll visit three that made the transition from ship to dive site within a few years and a few yards of one another.
Finally there are some sites that are very seldom dived that really ought to be in your logbook.

But this is the Red Sea, and it isn’t a simple as that.  Each of the wrecks is now an aquarium full of marine life and many are so much a part of the reef that it can be hard to see where the reef ends and the wreck begins. 

This trip offers a new insight into the area and has something for everyone from the most die-hard wreckie to the casual diver looking for something different.  Marine life enthusiasts and fish-spotters will be just as well catered for and the trip is a photographers’ paradise