Am trying to decide when to make a first time trip to the Red Sea. From what I’ve read on scubaboard, looks like summer is the best time for seeing a variety of sea life. However, I don’t like to be hot. How hot is it on decks of LoB boats? Is there a sea breeze that keeps it cool, versus just as hot as it would be on land? Also, looks like airline prices go up in the summer. Is that just a fluke right now, or should I expect it to stay that way?
Trying to decide when to go to Red Sea
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I'd imagine Virginia is worse in summer (never been there so speculating). But genererally even if the quicksilver is high in summer in Egypt, it is a dry desert heat. Not the sticky, balmy heat you'd experience in e.g. SEA or Florida. And you're right in that there is almost always wind blowing, from the Northeast, and it has a cooling effect especially out to sea on a boat. I've been many times in July and it can get very hot but rarely "unbarable", even for my Scandinavian skin. With all that said, some are extremely sensitive to heat, but if you can visit a tropical region w/o issues I wouldn't hesitate to go on a liveaboard in Egypt in summer. But don't forget to drink a lot of water. And try staying in the shade.
Would you agree that there is much more marine life to see in the summer? For reason of my schedule it would be easier to go in winter. The cold would not bother me, but I don’t want to waste my trip if there aren’t many fish to see in winter.
Diving can be good year round, and bad year round, but yes, summer is better for marine life in general (in Egypt). More big fish to see. Intensified reef life. Some sites are very different summer vs winter with Ras Mohamed being perhaps the most obvious example. A different dive in July compared to in November or January.
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There is always wind to refresh you on the deck, but the sun is there... to make you like a steamed lobster in 30 minutes 
stay in the shadow !
All boats have airco, but yes, in summer it's hot. And the flights are more expensive as it's european and eastern holidays.
stay in the shadow ! All boats have airco, but yes, in summer it's hot. And the flights are more expensive as it's european and eastern holidays.
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