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Dolphin and wreck safari!

Posted on by Livia (Volgyesi) Hertelendy

We have several good news – our latest safari offer is real dolphin madness! If you haven’t met dolphins before, or not enough, or you just can’t get enough of them, then you must really book yourself on this trip. At the same time we are catering to wreck lovers as well since we will be visiting the most famous Egyptian wrecks.

Common DolphinOn this tour you have just as good a chance to meet your garden variety dolphins at Shaab el Erg than you are bottle-nosed dolphins at Satayah’s horseshoe reef. With some good luck you can get really close to them.

Did you know that dolphins keep jumping out of the water for energy conservation? It is easier to move through the air than the water.

Common DolphinsBottle-nosed dolphins can jump out of the water as high as 6 meters and dive as deep as 600 meters. They can swim at speeds of 30 km/h and they can travel about 60-100 km a day. Since they are highly social animals, they usually travel in pods of 2-15 which can at times grow to even a hundred.

Common Dolphin Red SeaAnd once you meet up with them, watch them. Most dolphins are very keen on playing, most of all the common dolphins.

We have compiled this itinerary to include some of your favourite sites:

· South (Marsa Alam, Elphinstone, Marsa Shona, Abu Dabab)
· Safaga (Salem Express, Panorama reef, Abu Kafan)
· North (Ras Disha, Gota abu Ramada, Shaab el erg, Gubal, Abu Nuhas)

bottlenose dolphin Red SeaSafari date: August 31 – September 7, 2014
Boat: M/Y Andromeda
Itinerary: Special South/North dolphin and wreck safari
Departure: Marsa Galeb
Arrival: Hurghada

Truth be told, this is an undeniably attractive offer because frankly, all our other summer tours are fully booked. So, sign up, even if you only wish to enjoy the last days of the summer in Egypt.

Any questions or booking requests? Send us an e-mail and we will get right back to you!

WIN A FREE Liveaboard trip for 2 persons!

Posted on by Livia (Volgyesi) Hertelendy

Win a Free Diving Safari!

For 2 persons from 27th July until 03rd August, 2014!
Free diving safari on a liveabord EgyptHow to enter the game?

Sign up to our monthly Newsletter on our Facebook Cassiopeiasafari Page and win a free stay onboard Cassiopeia from 27th until 03rd August, 2014 (including transfers between Hurghada airport and boat, 7 nights fullboard accommodation onboard, diving, taxes and sisha/waterpipe onboard).

The winner will be notified by e-mail by 8th of June.
The deadline to subscribe is 6th of June, 2014 20:00 pm
Remarks:
– The price is not transferable to another person and cannot be exchanged for money.
– Who is already registered and booked for the same safari is not eligible to enter the game.

Hammerhead “hunt”

Posted on by Livia (Volgyesi) Hertelendy

If we are talking about the Sudanese Red Sea, we must emphasise that you can expect to dive with sharks at most dive sites. Sudan’s truly unique trait is when you are surrounded by a school of sharks so large, you cannot see beyond it and even the most experienced dive guides used to seeing plenty of sharks are left in an awe. In short, this is exactly what has happened this week.

And this is Shaab Jibna in the next second…
Hammerhead at Shaab Jibna in Sudan
We have had an exciting week. We ran into a couple reef sharks on the southern side of Sanganeb already on the first day and the next morning the hammerheads showed up too on the northern side. Shaab Rumi was exceptional this week with lots of reef sharks, a school of 20 hammerheads, dolphins and turtles. The week was crowned by Jibna where we found ourselves right in the midst of 50 hammerheads at 30 metres. We were literally doused with hammerheads, a virtual cloud surrounding us. This has been the best shark week so far!

We must add though that we had to modify our original tour plan scheduled for this week because of the strong winds. Instead of heading north, we navigated more towards the south as we were not able to go farther than Shaab Rumi. Although Angarosh was left out of the itinerary, Jibna was well worth this little detour. Here is why:

Tip of the week:
If there is a place where your best bet is to dive with Nitrox, it is Sudan! We often swim to 20-40m depths along drop-offs and reef walls.

Why use Nitrox:
– longer bottom time
– shorter surface time
– longer repeat dives
– safety! – using O2 tables, keeping to the maximum depth
– less change for narcosis

This is where we were this week:
Divesites Red Sea Sudan
OUR LAST-MINUTE OFFER
April 28, 2014 – May 5, 2014 — Andromeda — Sudan-South tour
Book by April 21, 2014 over the phone or in e-mail!

If you wish to know more about how to dive in Sudan, click here!
Magyar nyelven: www.redseaboats.hu/szudan/
In English: http://www.sudan-diving.com
По-русски: www.sudan-diving.ru

A rare sighting in the Sudanese Red Sea

Posted on by Livia (Volgyesi) Hertelendy

There was a rare sighting in the Port Sudan harbour last week, none other than the unusual line-up of stars. The ideal thing would be to see the line-up for yourself but for those of you who are not in the neighbourhood these days, we will tell you what you could see.

Air temperature: 25-28C
Water temperature: 23-24C
Wind: stronger in the first 2-3 days then calmer in the second part of the week
Visibility: 20m

Cassiopeia also arrived in Sudan from Egypt last Friday. She sailed out for her first, a North trip, yesterday, head to head with Andromeda.

Cruise Cassiopeia and Andromeda Red SeaWe are getting the hang of this season nicely, it is getting warmer and warmer every week and the visibility underwater is increasing. Again, it was Qita El Banna and Sanganeb that hid the biggest attractions of the past week. We dived with a manta at the former and a 20-member school of hammerheads drew a smile on our faces at the latter. And we were lucky to experience another rare attraction – whales!

Although we all expect miracles from the Sudanese Red Sea, these cannot be only megalomaniacal expectations. Not only tons of hammerheads, grey reef sharks and mantas swim in the area but the reefs with the thousand faces are almost worth a prayer! Attention photographers and divers! You can take the photo of your life in Sudan!

Diving reef in SudanTip of the week:

Attention! Your passport must
– be valid for at least 6 months after the departure date from Sudan
– not contain stamps or visas from Israel
– have 2 empty pages side by side for the Sudanese visa

This is where we were this week:
Shaab Suedi – Gota Shambaia; Angarosh – Angarosh – Merlo – Gota Shambaia; Qita el Banna – Qita el Banna – Shaab Suedi (Blue Belt) – Shaab Suedi; Shaab Rumi – Shaab Rumi – Precontinent II – Precontinent II; Shaab Rumi – Sanganeb – Sanganeb – Umbria; Umbria – Umbria

Cousteau's Precontinent in the Sudanese Red SeaOur LAST-MINUTE offer:

March 31-April 7, 2014 *** Andromeda *** Sudan-North tour
Book by March 26, 2014
Only 7 available places left
Book via e-mail!

A new week, good hopes, we will be back next week to tell you what we have seen.
If you would like to know more about diving in Sudan, click here!
English: www.sudan-diving.com
In Hungarian: www.redseaboats.hu/szudan/
По-русски: www.sudan-diving.ru