Dive Review of Emperor in
Red Sea/The Brothers, Deadalus

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Emperor: "Shark Surprise", Oct, 2016, by Carol Sommers, IL, US ( Sr. Reviewer 8 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 9235 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	The trip was the Best of the Best and I was pleasantly surprised that it included hammerheads--seen on 3 out of 3 dives at The Brothers, including a school of 20-- and oceanic white tips that were waiting to play with us at the Daedalus site. We swam with them on arriving, did a wall dive and finished our air under the boat with them. We dived 3 times a day, getting up at 5:30 or 6:00, but only had one night dive because it's not allowed in the Marine Park. We had a 7-hour and an 11-hour ride between the two big sites. Very good dive briefings. Times, depths and air consumption were checked after each dive. Most dives were wall dives. Nice soft and hard coral. No other large fish, but a big school of barracudas. Eight nationalities as divers (CH,UK,ES,US,DE,LU,NL,CN) and Sonia, the Swiss divemaster, spoke fluent English, Spanish and Arabic. Momo (short for Mohammed) was our Egyptian divemaster. The "student" divemaster, Simone, did not stay close to us when we were wall diving and there could be more fairly simple safety measures. I had inquired and was not allowed to bring my Nautilus Lifeline for communicating with the boat. No divemasters carried them and didn't even have a slate and pencil to communicate underwater. The zodiacs had no ladders, so I was flipped into one three times like a tuna--not fun. Still, there were many dives from the roomy dive deck and usually zodiacs took us to a site and we swam back to the mother ship underwater. There was no gangplank at one area, so getting on and off the mother ship was difficult at port. The food was fine with free wine at dinner, but the only good bread was the pita. The problem was that meals were expected to be eaten fast and several times they tried to take my plate before I finished! (A cultural thing--another diver told me that at a fancy dinner given by a sheik diners commented that it was such a long party--lasting 2 hours from coming in the door until leaving.) Overall, great trip for the money.
Websites	Emperor
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Cozumel, Belize, Florida, North Carolina, Curacao, Lake Michigan, Philippines, Sea of Cortez, Palau, Yap, Dominica, Hornby Island in British Columbia, Bonne Terre Mine
Closest Airport	Hurgahada	Getting There	Cairo to Hurgahada, Pick up by dive operator there for a 3 hour drive to Port Ghalib in Marsa Alam (no daily flights)
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	78-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	You could dive your own profile and either follow the divemaster or buddy dive, sending up a safety sausage when you wanted to be picked up. Care was necessary and sausages needed to be sent up underwater because of a lot of boat traffic. Twelve dive boats at Daedelus site but no underwater crowds.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Dedicated camera rinse tank, roomy countertop in living room area for charging batteries.

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Dive Review of Emperor in Red Sea/The Brothers, Deadalus

Emperor: "Shark Surprise", Oct, 2016,

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Dive Review of Emperor in
Red Sea/The Brothers, Deadalus