Red Sea

Red Sea Blog offers a wealth of information on diving in Egypt, particularly around Hurghada. The blog features articles on various topics, including diving courses, safe diving practices, and the diverse marine life of the Red Sea. Recent posts cover subjects such as diving with dolphins in Hurghada, the causes of coral bleaching, diving holidays with children, and travel insurance considerations for divers in Egypt. The blog also provides insights into drift diving, deep diving, and wreck diving in the Hurghada area, as well as information on the best times to dive in Egypt.

Diving and breathing underwater

What do we breathe underwater during scuba diving? It would be best to use the term breathing gas. During the basic diving course you will use air. Other mixtures are nitrox and trimix.

Diving with dolphins in Hurghada

Around Hurghada there are coral reefs known as dolphin houses. We can dive with dolphins while they sleep. How they can sleep and still breathe air underwater? How to behave when we meet dolphins? 

What causes coral bleaching not only in the Red Sea

Are you wondering what hard coral is? Why do corals need light? Why are coral reefs dying and bleaching? How to protect the coral reefs of the Red Sea in Egypt?

Diving holidays with children in Hurghada

Discovering the underwater world certainly attracts not only many adults but also children. Try scuba diving. Summer and holidays are just the perfect time for that.

Travel insurance for diving in Egypt

Verify whether your current travel insurance covers diving in Egypt. Arrange your own insurance for the duration of your stay abroad or for a year.

The best diving in Egypt, Hurghada or Marsa Alam

Where is the best diving in Egypt? Is Hurghada or Marsa Alam better? In Hurghada you can go to the coral reefs by boat, in Marsa Alam you mostly dive from the shore.

Pick-up drift

Currents and drift dives in Hurghada

What is a drift and pick-up drift? How we organize drift dives in a current and which dive sites in Hurghada are suitable for drift dives. Check also safety rules.

When is the best time to dive in Egypt?

What is the best time of year to dive in the Red Sea in Hurghada? The season never ends and you can dive all year round. What is typical of different seasons.

Coral reef Hurghada

Deep Diving in Hurghada

Interesting and most beautiful reefs for deep diving in Hurghada. Deep diving in Hurghada can be done at many dive sites often as a drift dive or on wrecks. 

What you don't know about fish: Sharks

We are preparing for you book about fish species living in the Red Sea. We would like to bring for you interesting facts about the sea animals. What You don't know about fish of the Red Sea? Read one from our articles.

Wreck diving in Hurghada

Wreck diving in Hurghada on the Red Sea - whether wreck diving as part of the Advanced Open Water Diver course or as a Wreck Diver specialization - awakens the soul of the explorer.

Dangerous Animals of the Red Sea

If you just observe the coral reef it will not harm you. On this page you will find an overview of dangerous animals of the Red Sea as scorpionfish, stonefish, lionfish, sharks, morays, cone shells and the others.