Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Well, I have now completed my last week with Blue O Two here in Egypt with a  Best of Brothers itinerary working with Luke, Will and Ahmed Hamed on Blue Fin . The first day at Gota Abu Ramada worked well before heading to The Brothers to dive Numidia, Aida and see some sharks. Although not as plentiful as previous trips I still saw a Thresher, a grey reef and an Oceanic Whitetip during the 3 days. The weather was very kind, warm and very little wind making for some relaxed diving. I was even able t dive the north plataeu of BB which is normally based by surf. We travelled back via Safaga with dives at Salem Express, Panorama and a new dive site for me called Abu Hashishi. Small Giftun finished the trip and I am now drying kit ready to return to the UK tomorrow. So after 3 months, 12 weeks at sea, 140+ dives (50 of these at The Brothers) and I have no idea how many guests I will be on a plane tomorrow heading back to the UK.

This week I have been on Blue Fin working with Elke and Luke on the Project Shark, Best of Brothers itinerary. As its name suggests, we went looking for sharks at Big and Little Brother. We dived at Ras Disha and Tobia Arbaa (no sharks) on the way to The Brothers and then we saw loads over the 4 days that we were there. Every dive had sharks on it somewhere. In one dive at Small Brother I saw Threshers, Grey Reefs and Oceanic White Tips. Around 15 - 20 different Oceanics were seen over the week. Unfortunately there were at least 3 with hooks and lines in their mouths, two with damaged dorsal fins (possibly from propellers or lines) and a number with bite marks and bits of fin missing from other sharks. Copies of my video and photos have been supplied to Red Sea Sharks and once all these sharks have been identified they can be found on the website and we will know how many there were. There were 17 dives on offer this week to the guests and I did 13 of them. ...