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Clear blue Red Sea water meeting bare desert mountains on the Egyptian coast

The Red Sea

Vivid life, absolute silence

September – May

The Red Sea is more alive than any water should be. Over 200 species of hard and soft coral build cities that rise from the seabed, swarming with fish in numbers that seem exaggerated until you put your head under the surface. The water sits at around 27 degrees, the visibility runs to forty metres, and the colour, once you are offshore, looks almost computer-generated.

A wellness voyage through the Red Sea is led by what lives beneath it. Your yacht moves south from Hurghada toward reefs that have been building for fifteen thousand years, anchoring at Ras Mohammed where two currents collide into an ecosystem of absurd richness, or above the SS Thistlegorm, a British ship sunk in 1941 and now colonised by coral. Above the surface, there is only desert, water, and light - and after a few days, the emptiness becomes the point.

Why this destination

Reefs and Clarity

Over 200 species of coral, with visibility reaching forty metres. No river input and no runoff means light penetrates to depths you would never see elsewhere.

Marine Encounters

Turtles, rays, moray eels, and garden eels swaying in unison like a field of wheat. At Ras Mohammed, sharks and barracuda patrol a wall dropping past a hundred metres.

Desert and Stillness

Bare mountains running into bare sand running into water. No villages, no marinas, no other yachts - only the red-brown desert, the blue, and a silence that becomes spacious.

Warm Water, Long Season

Water that holds around 27 degrees and stays warmer than it should year-round, with comfortable, clear diving conditions across the long stretch from September into May.

Drawn to the water itself?

Tell us what you want to find beneath the surface. We’ll match the reefs, the wreck dives, and the remote anchorages to a yacht and a pace that suit how you like to move.

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