Trip Details:  Southern Solitude
Emperor Elite Liveaboard.
 7 nights
 21+ dives

Diver Experience 

We require you to have 50 logged dives and you are a Deep Diver/Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent to join this trip. Diving is from zodiacs to give precise entry and exit points

 START    
  17 Sep 2026    Marsa Ghalib 
  END
  24 Sep 2026 Marsa Ghalib

Southern Solitude Itinerary Highlights:

Going ‘against the flow’ to see the best sites in the southern Red Sea at their quietest times
Elphinstone, Daedalus and St John’s at their quietest with the rarely-dived sites of Rocky and Zabargad also included
All the reef dives are offshore, stay out at sea on the last night with 21+ dives 
A diverse range of marine life such as tuna, barracudas, jacks, groupers, Napoleon, snappers and reef sharks. Occasional hammerheads, silky and oceanic white tips, dolphins and mantas. Rare chance to spot threshers.
£1840.00 inc flights, transfers & nitrox.  (Deposit on booking £750.00)  Limited places 

                                  Please clip on this link to book:- Elite  Southern Solitude

                                          Or call the dive centre on 01782 304777

Cabin Upgrade available please as the dive centre

FULL TINERARY HIGHLIGHTS

•    Going ‘against the flow’ to see the best sites in the southern Red Sea at their quietest times.
•    Elphinstone, Daedalus and St John’s at their quietest with the rarely-dived sites of Rocky and Zabargad also included.
•    This is a 21+ itinerary with all dives made offshore. By staying out of port on the last night there’s potential for up to 22 dives on the trip – the most any of our itineraries offer.
•    A diverse range of marine life such as tuna, barracudas, jacks, groupers, Napoleon, bumphead parrotfish and sharks including hammerheads and occasionally silky and oceanic white tips. Dolphins and turtles in the Fury Shoals, while manta, thresher sharks and whalesharks can always surprise.
This fantastic itinerary gives divers the wonderful opportunity to ‘go against the flow’ and dive the best sites of the Red Sea on what should be their quietest days.
By approaching these iconic sites in the opposite direction to most standard itineraries, we hope to offer you the best chance to dive with the fewest number of people around you.
Southern Solitude is a dive-focused trip, heading out of Port Ghalib and immediately arriving in the Elphinstone area. This enables us to make a check dive nearby and then get straight to a site which is normally frequented on the final days of trips. With fewer boats around it should give the chance to enjoy the 300-metre-long reef’s colourful pink and red soft coral sheer walls in relative peace and quiet.
We’ll then go to Daedalus, arriving before most others, to take in its deep walls and drop-offs which offer some of the most spectacular diving to be found, before heading down to the exceptionally remote, and usually quiet, Rocky and Zabargad Islands where even many Red Sea veterans cannot boast to have dived.
Over the next couple of days we will move up through St John’s and Fury Shoals where our guides will find the quietest spots in this vast collection of stunning reef system, which offers some of the most picturesque and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Fury Shoals also boasts an amazing selection of marine life including super-friendly turtles and a resident pod of spinner dolphins.
This will bring us up to day six when, while others cram into local onshore bays, we’ll do a full day and night diving program on some offshore reefs as we travel north.
This trip is one of our 21+ itineraries, and should offer around 22 dives on proper safari sites by spending six full nights out of port, returning on the morning of day seven just before departure time.
And, while there are few certainties in life, we’re pretty sure that by taking a different approach we can give you the best chance of some Southern Solitude.
*Please be aware the dive sites and areas mentioned in our itineraries are not guaranteed. They are subject to change based on weather conditions and are at the discretion of our cruise director/captain. This is to ensure we provide the best sightings and activities possible during your dive experience while also prioritising your safety.