Brothers & Elphinstone

The safari "Just Brothers" includes only Brothers Islands. The Brothers and Elphinstone safari includes diving at both Big and Little Brother, as well as Elphinstone and other smaller reefs.

Note: The Egyptian government requires all divers to have a minimum of 50 logged dives and an Advanced Open water diver or the equivalent.
Night diving is forbidden within the marine park area.  This means that it is often only three dives a day out at Big and Little Brother.  This came into place due to the fact that the currents can be very strong in this area.

Brothers Islands

Brothers Islands is translated from Arabic, "El Akhawein - the two brothers".
At 400 m in length, Big Brother combines magnificent wall diving along with some superb wreck diving. The walls are covered in stunning soft corals, anemones and hard corals. There are often barracudas, jacks and tunas, as well as large napoleon fish and wrasse. Here to, it is easy to get lost in the shark action as there are frequent sightings of grey reefs, hammerheads, threshers, silver tips and white tips, all coming in to feed off of the smaller reef fish.

The Numidia is a huge freighter that lies on the northern plateau. With her stern wedged into the island at around 80 m, she lies against the island almost vertical. Having been underwater for almost 100 hundred years, she is now part of the reef and home to many fish and soft corals.

The second wreck is the Aida. She lays between 25 - 60 m and sunk some 40 years ago. She to is home to many small fish and corals.

Although smaller in size, Little Brother is just as big in attracting palegics. There is a tremendous gorgonian forest at around 30 m, and the smaller island is also coverd in soft corals which are vibrant in colour and teeming with life

Elphinstone

Due to strong currents, diving at Elphinstone is a real adrenaline rush. To reach the Northern plateau you need motorized fins, but once there you´ll find yourself amongst White Tips, Grey Reef Sharks, or maybe even Hammarheads. The Southern plateau is located at 55m and is good place for spotting big pelagics.