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Dan
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I was referring to # dive sites / boat. In the past 10 years I probably have seen 1 other liveaboard at most, next to our liveaboard sharing a dive site at different time in Raja Ampat.
I’ve heard of 10-20 liveaboards crowding into a dive site during the heyday of Red Sea diving season. I was diving in SS Thristlegorm last August, there were already 4 liveaboards crowding around the site during supposedly bad season after the Russian plane crash.
It seems to me Red Sea dive sites are sparse / far between & too many boats tend to flock to those few dive sites. Am I wrong?
Luko
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I was referring to # dive sites / boat. In the past 10 years I probably have seen 1 other liveaboard at most, next to our liveaboard sharing a dive site at different time in Raja Ampat.
I’ve heard of 10-20 liveaboards crowding into a dive site during the heyday of Red Sea diving season. I was diving in SS Thristlegorm last August, there were already 4 liveaboards crowding around the site during supposedly bad season after the Russian plane crash.
It seems to me Red Sea dive sites are sparse / far between & too many boats tend to flock to those few dive sites. Am I wrong?
It's true that in Hurghada on Umm Gammar or small Giftun you will have 20 boats unloading their divers. Same goes for the most popular sites of Sharm el Sheikh. Personally I dislike diving the 'Thistlegorm" all overaged divers like to spend too much testosterone on ths site. Call me a sissy but i prefer Tiran straits.
That's what Bali is for australians, the Europeans go diving cheap in Egypt.
But the southerner places like Marsa Alam (acess to Elphiinstone) or Hamata (Fury shoals, St John) are much less populated, you won't see as many boats like you see in Dampier strait
I remember diving R4 from a resort in 2013, surfacing while going to Sardines reef and doing a 360 view, I spotted 10 live aboards, that was 5 years ago... that is for R4 supposed "remoteness".
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