Deep, deep in the south lie the St. John's Reefs. Due to its great distance, this reef group is less frequently dived, thus offering divers an almost untouched underwater world.

St. John's is also rich in fish, and here you can encounter the otherwise rare bumphead parrotfish. A look into the blue water can be highly rewarding: large fish such as sharks, barracudas, or schools of mackerel and tuna are not uncommon. With luck, you might even spot manta rays and dolphins.

St. John’s Riff
All of its dive sites are very close together, making it easy to travel from one to another on a liveaboard dive safari. St. John's offers a great deal of variety in its dives: steep walls, tunnels, caves, and breathtaking hard coral formations. One of these dives (St. John's Caves or Umm Kharalim) is truly unique and a photographer's dream, with beams of light shimmering through small tunnels.

St. John’s Riff Nord
Cave Reef is about an hour north of the St. John's Reefs. You'll have fun finding your way through tunnels and around pinnacles. One of the most beautiful dive sites in the Red Sea.

Fury Shoal
An immense chain of reefs with a multitude of outstanding dive sites. From Abu Galawa in the north to Sataya in the south. Have fun exploring caves, tunnels, coral gardens, plateaus, and drop-offs! Near Abu Galawa, within the Fury Shoal, for example, there's a wreck called the "Tugboat".

Elphinstone Riff
This reef is known for shark encounters, including whitetip reef sharks, hammerheads, grey reef sharks, thresher sharks, and of course, what Elphinstone is famous for: the oceanic whitetip reef shark (longimanus).

Elphinstone Reef, or Sha'ab Abu Hamra, located 20 km from Marsa Alam, is a reef no more than 300 meters long. Its spectacular drop-offs plunge well over 100 meters on both sides. Strong currents make this a perfect drift dive along walls covered with many species of fish and soft corals. Here you'll see barracuda, angelfish, schools of anthias, groupers, moray eels, and shoals of sweetlips. The reef is covered in soft corals all the way to the north. At the southern end of Elphinstone is an archway, reaching a depth of 65 meters. This is well beyond the recreational diving limit, but ideal for technical divers. Whitetip reef sharks also occasionally visit this area.
Other shark species are regular visitors – whitetip and grey reef sharks, as well as hammerhead and silky sharks, can be spotted.

The eastern side is a large drop-off, while the western side is less steep and somewhat sandier. Overall, this area boasts an abundance of soft corals, sponges, gorgonians, and giant whip corals.
The exact route and reefs are dependent on the weather and the diving experience of our guests.

The St. John's dive safari starts and ends in Port Ghalib.

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