Emperor Elite is a luxury liveaboard based in Egypt’s Red Sea, offering divers access to iconic reefs such as Brothers, Daedalus, and Elphinstone. The vessel features a range of spacious cabins, all equipped with air conditioning, en-suite bathrooms, and modern amenities. Guests can enjoy meals in the air-conditioned dining room and relax in the stylish saloon or on the sun deck with sunbeds, bean bags, and a premium coffee bar. Additional facilities include a partitioned lounge, a locally stocked bar, and a fully equipped dive deck with professional dive guides, ensuring both comfort and adventure throughout the journey.
Emperor Elite is spacious, custom-designed and a popular choice. At 38 metres, she accommodates a maximum of 26 guests in a variety of cabins including the fabulous double Junior Suite which gives amazing panoramic views of the Red Sea. She welcomes you to her stylish air-conditioned saloon and the air-conditioned dining room is where great food and free red wine with dinner is served.
Cabins
Upper deck: 1 Executive Suite with a double bed and sofas, 1 Junior Suite with a double bed and a sofa, and 2 cabins with twin beds
Main deck: 1 cabin with twin beds that can be adapted to a double
Lower deck: 7 cabins available with twin beds
Boat Facilities
Main deck: Partitioned air-conditioned lounge and dining room with comfy sofas, 55″ LCD Smart TV, locally stocked bar offering beer and wine. Dive deck and dive platform.
Upper deck: Sun deck with sofas and tables, locally stocked bar and premium coffee bar offering espresso, latte and cappuccino
Sun deck: Deckchairs, sunbeds, bean bags
WiFi: Complimentary and limited-data package for single device. Additional codes available on board.
Diving Facilities
2 dive guides
Dive deck: Spacious dive deck and 6.5m x 8m platform. 3 x Bauer compressors under deck.
Diving tender: 2 x Zodiac 40 HP
Dive equipment rental: Full range on offer; rentals must be arranged prior to arrival. All divers are required to use a dive computer and SMB for every dive and a torch each for night dives.
Dive tanks: Equipped with 12 litre Aluminium tanks as standard and 15 litre Steel tanks on request. FREE Nitrox; up to 32%, via membrane system.
PADI courses available: Skills Review, Advanced Open Water, Adventure Dives and Specialties - Technical, re-breather and side mount diving; on request
Medical: Oxygen, comprehensive First Aid and AED available
Camera facilities: Charging stations, air gun, rinse tanks, and camera table
7 Nights
Boat
A world-famous offshore reef, Elphinstone Reef is the jewel in the Red Sea's crown. Sheer walls and sometimes currents at exhilarating speeds make this one for advanced divers only, but it will be one to remember. Dive the east wall in the morning and the west in the afternoon to make the most of the sun as it lights up the abundant soft corals. Anthias smother the walls while large gorgonian fans and black corals hide critters such as the infamous longnose hawkfish. Keep an eye out in the blue for resident schools of snapper, large barracuda, and enormous Napoleon wrasse. The north and south plateaus drop to over 40 metres in depth but can be spots for very special encounters, as manta rays as well silvertip, tiger, grey reef, and hammerhead sharks have all been seen here. Cruising the shallows at the right time of year can be curious silky and oceanic whitetip sharks.
2 Nights
The wondrous Daedalus Reef is an expansive 400-metre-long and 100-metre-wide sandstone reef that rests in the Egyptian Red Sea, about 90 kilometres from Marsa Alam. In the centre of the reef lies a small artificial island that hosts a lighthouse which was first constructed in 1863 and rebuilt in 1931.
Daedalus Reef is the most distant offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea. It is approximately 52 nautical miles east of Marsa Alam and takes about 6 hours to get to.
The island is 450 meter long and 100 meter wide, it is marked by a lighthouse which forms the only break on the horizon for many miles in any direction. It's a huge round reef that provides an excellent opportunity for spotting big pelagics including manta rays and Thresher sharks. All around its steep walls you will see a a large variety of fish and coral. There's a good chance to see schooling hammerheads on the northern point. Strong currents possible and most of the dives on Daedalus Reef are drift dives along amazing deep walls covered by superb coral. In addition to the Sharks, you can also encounter various pelagic fishes such as the Giant Trevally or the Dogtooth Tuna. The Daedalus Reef is located within a Marine Park which combined with its remote location, really is one of the most pristine dive sites in the Red Sea.
The Daedalus Reef is can only be dived from a liveaboard and you need to be an experienced diver as the reef is in open sea.
1 Night
A network of hard coral formations make up the complex system of the Fury Shoals Reef. Inhabited by a variety of pelagic fish, dolphins, and several species of shark, Fury Shoals is a diverse coral garden and a spectacular dive site. Aside from the endless colourful sea life, the lagoon also contains the wrecks of a tugboat and a sailing ship for exploration. For an easy introduction to cavern diving, there is probably no finer setting than the reefs of the Fury Shoals, as well as the nearby St Johns. At a few special places, divers can explore capacious swim-throughs, gulleys, and canyons, at the same time enjoying some of the most impressive hard coral scenery anywhere in the world.
1 Night
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