Sea Serpent Contessa Luxury Liveaboard Egypt

A trip report from Zaina Fadel, a dive instructor from Qatar, on her first liveaboard – eight days, solo, diving the Red Sea with BookDiveBoat.

Warm drifts over coral walls, or cooler water and big animals. Same country, opposite coasts, and they suit different divers.

The La Paz season opens on a shark count, not a calendar date.

A trip report from Scuba Daan, shot and written on location with BookDiveBoat.

New Wave is our answer to a simple problem: people get certified, then never take the trip. Nobody tells them what a week at sea is really like. So we are telling them.

Six minutes of totality with the sun almost overhead, watched from the deck of a liveaboard off Marsa Alam. Diving before it, diving after it.

Photo Summer Encounter shows a diver and a manta ray sharing water. She took it on a trip with BookDiveBoat aboard Adora in the Maldives.

Giant mantas and schooling hammerheads sit 250 miles offshore, past a 24 to 28-hour crossing most divers never get to.

Is the Red Sea a Good First Trip?

Same country, two different dive parks — mild currents and record-breaking biodiversity in the west, strong currents and resident megafauna in the east.

A liveaboard puts you in the water 3–4 times a day for a week straight — most first-timers underestimate the rhythm of it.

Resident whale sharks, every month of the year.

🌊 Channels, currents and reef mantas — check Maldives liveaboard dates → MALDIVES · INDIAN OCEAN Maldives Liveaboard: A Guide to Atolls, Channels and Currents Twenty-six atolls, hundreds of channels, and a dive plan built entirely around reading the current — here’s how a Maldives liveaboard route actually works. 26 Atolls 15–30m Channel depth Mod–Strong […]

🦈 Schooling hammerheads, an anemone city, a 100-year-old lighthouse — check Egypt liveaboard dates → EGYPT · DEEP SOUTH Daedalus Reef: What to Expect on Egypt’s Deep South Sites A solitary reef roughly 90km offshore, reachable only by liveaboard, built around a historic lighthouse, schooling hammerheads and a wall of anemones known as Anemone City. […]

🦈 Two islands, two wrecks, one legendary drift — check Egypt liveaboard dates → EGYPT · RED SEA Diving the Brothers Islands: Egypt’s Signature Offshore Route Two remote islands 60km off Marsa Alam, reachable only by liveaboard, built around two wrecks, deep walls and pelagic sharks. 60km Offshore 2 Wrecks AOWD+ Recommended 8–90m Wreck depths […]

🐬 Four routes, one Red Sea — check Egypt dates → EGYPT · RED SEA Egypt Liveaboard: The Complete Red Sea Guide Wrecks off Hurghada, hammerheads at Daedalus, drift walls at St John’s — one week on a Red Sea liveaboard reaches sites no day boat can. 3 Main routes May–Oct Pelagic season 7 nights […]