Three-Day Break

A shore-diving resort may be great for a family holiday, but combined with a short liveaboard getaway, it's even better! John Bantin takes a holiday within a holiday more...

Shakedown cruising with the Contessa

When a Red Sea liveaboard is about to go into service, it's a good idea to give it a bit of a trial run. Of course, if you invite along paying guests and journalists, you're being impressively brave. John Liddiard volunteers as a lab-rat aboard the Contessa Mia more...

Six days in the desert

For a wide-angle photographer, Marsa Alam provides spectacular opportunities, says Zac Macaulay, as he enjoys a taste of southern Egypt's underwater world more...

Southern Sudan Odyssey

Get far enough south in the Red Sea and you won't see other safari boats, or overdived reefs - just marine life, and lots of it. If only John Bantin had waited till the hammerheads had been and gone before writing up this treat of a trip more...

Shake out in Egypt

The favourite holiday spot for British divers appears to have raised the bar for dive destinations the world over, with its new inspection system for dive centres. Has diving in Egypt just got a whole lot safer? Brendan O'Brien shadows the Chamber of Diving & Watersports inspectors to find out more...

Back to nature - but is it really eco?

Many divers relish the simplicity of a shore-based 'eco-village' diving holiday in southern Egypt.
It's more comfortable than in the pioneering days, says John Bantin - but is it as environmentally friendly?
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Lionfish duel

They often look as if they're spoiling for a fight, but on this occasion a battle royal took place - witnessed by Richard Carey more...