Duration
Full day (9 hours)
Group size
Up to 12
Language
English, Arabic
Eight in the morning at the marina, back on the pontoon by five. We run south past Tala Bay to the reefs that sit within sight of the Saudi border, where the boat traffic thins out and the coral gets noticeably healthier. Three dives if you are certified, or the whole day in a mask and fins if you would rather stay shallow - we take both on the same trip and nobody waits around. Gorgonian fans, batfish stacked in the shade under the hull, eagle rays in spring, and if you are patient and the guide is having a good day, a seahorse. Lunch is maqluba cooked on the stern by the skipper's brother and eaten at anchor after the second dive, which is quietly the best hour of the day. The friction is the boat. It is a working dive boat: one marine toilet, a canvas canopy over about half the deck, no cabin. When the northerly gets up after two the ride home is bumpy and the deck is wet. If you know you get seasick, take something an hour before we leave, not when you start feeling it. Nine hours is also a long day for under-tens.
We run one boat and two pickups out of the marina in Aqaba, and between us we have been diving this coast since the Cedar Pride still had paint on her. Three of us grew up here; two came for a season in 2011 and never left. We are a PADI centre, which mostly means our compressor is serviced on schedule and our regulators are not held together with hope. We keep groups small because the Marine Park is seven kilometres of coast shared by every dive centre in town, and a reef with six people on it is a better reef than one with twenty. We dive year-round. We say no when the wind says no.
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