Divers should arrange their flight to Cairo. We can assist you for the reservation on Sudan Airways Cairo/Port Sudan return departure Saturday afternoon from Cairo. Sudanese tax fees are 175 US$ per person per week or 250 US$ per person for the 2 weeks, these fees have to be paid in cash US$ on location to the authorities. Also, all divers should apply for a visa in the Sudanese embassy closest to their residence. Passport must be valid for at least 6 months and not bearing any Israeli or South African stamps.

If you do not have an accessible Sudanese embassy nearby, we can assist getting you the visa on location, please let us know upon contacting us.

All drinks on board will be extra (except water, tea and coffee included in the cruise fare), and divers should be advanced certified or have a least 30 dives logged if Open Water or CMAS 1* divers...

Also, diving equipment is NOT available for rental on board, therefore all divers should be fully equipped for the trip either with their own equipment or by renting equipment from their place of origin Access to Port Sudan is by direct flight from Cairo with Sudan Airways, which will arrive every Saturday at 22:00 local time in Port Sudan. Divers will be immediately picked up at the airport after immigration and custom formalities to board the vessel in the nearby harbour.

The vessel will sail to the first dive site (1 hour away) the Sunday early morning. The cruise is set on a 6 days and 7 nights or 13 days and 14 nights formats. Departure on Sunday morning and disembarkment the next Saturday in the afternoon. A tour to the stunning Suakin island off Port Sudan can be organized. This island is the old Port Sudan where the ruin a coral stones city and harbour could be admired, making this place quite unique in the world...

There will also be a possibility to visit the market of Port Sudan for additional shopping.
Divers will be then transferred in the late Saturday afternoon to the airport for departure in the evening back to Cairo.

Cruises are scheduled from the beginning of October until mid June of each year, please
e-mail us for availability update 2008-2009. Please note that cruise prices are quoted in Euros...

Packages

Packages 1

6 Days / 7 Nights Diving Cruise, 3 day dives or 2 day dives, 1 night dive per day

Price:

Cruise includes: transfers, accommodation in air conditioned cabins, all meals on board tanks, weights, dive guide, and the guided tour in Suakin Island or Port Sudan market.

Packages 2

13 Days / 14 Nights, 3 dives a day and 4 night dives.

Cruise includes: transfers, accommodation in double air conditioned cabin, all meals on board tanks, weights, dive guide, and the guided tour in Suakin Island or Port sudan market

Sudan has a rich reef's life as well as submarine history: The Commandant Cousteau has chosen it to settle his "houses under the sea". The Umbria, Italian ship scuttled in 1940 when Italy got into war is a magnificent wreck today. Follow the guide to discover engine-room, bombs and ammunitions freights, under the inquisitive look of the Arabian angel fish.

The seven days cruise, from Sunday to Saturday, mainly is performed on the north of Sudan, with diving around the most amazing reef of this sea area.

The first stop of the journey is Wind-gate reef, where the famous sunk Italian ship Umbria is resting with her history and all her fully untouched cargo.
Going on to the north, the high and imposing Sanganeb lighthouse stands out over this enchanted seaside. The big gray sharks and a close army of barracudas and jack fishes, have elected as their dwell a 35 meters plateau, on the south cape of Sanganeb. Here the wall sinks into the blue and there we’ll see the curious hammer sharks but, care less about the divers, may be they will climb slowly with a lithe dance up to the top and again disappear in the dip blue.

The next stop is Sha'ab Rumi, a rich of surprises reef, we’ll dive on the plateau close to the pass where Cousteau in 1964 built his laboratory.

On seeing the abandoned dwells fully covered of colored corals, it will be a marvelous spectacle. Very close to the south cape of Sha'ab Rumi, from a facing to dip blue platform we can approach shoals of gray and hammer sharks; the dwelling barracudas here sometimes are socompact to darken the sunlight. Not so far toward the north, there is Sha'ab Saudi reef. Upturned on the reef and covered of gorgeous madrepores, the Blue Belle wreck is resting, inside we can admire enormous tropical groupers

Extending up to fourteen days the cruise, always steering toward the north and crossing Quite El Banna, we’ll reach Sha'ab Baya island. Is a place with many attractions and it is worth to stop at least a couple of days to have the opportunity of visiting Merlo reef, sailing to the madreporical pick of Anga Rosh (the mother of sharks, here present in crowded quantities and of every species).
Also the diving in Mesharifa, the devil fishes temple, will be unforgettable, the reality will seem to us an illusion.
These very gentle and harmless fishes use arrange their meetings on these shallow waters, in very large groups for breeding; it is enough to wear fins and mask to get them close. Coming back, if at the sunset we ride at anchor inside the reefs surrounding Marsha Fijab, the dolphins bay, we can let be impressed about hundreds of these likeable mammals that will bewitch us with their sweet calls,
while languishing swimming around our boat.

On request, you can spend the last day of your vacation, with an interesting trip to Suakin, the deserted city, an ancient harbour of the Red Sea that was built with blocks of coral rocks.