The Second Liveaboard trip place is being offered by Jean Gendron, who travels all the way from Canada just to dive with us in Sharm.
Jean can't make the trip due to unforeseen circumstances so is offering his place up on The Black Pearl a 5 Star Liveaboard, which sets sail from Palau Micronesia on 20th February 2027.​

Jean's place, needs to be shared with another male who has already taken one of the births in the cabin. So there is one birth still left on the trip for another male. All other divers on this trip are also regular divers with Elite Diving in Sharm. Even G and Alun will be on the same trip.

​If you are interested, please contact [email protected] for details.

On 6th October 1941 during World War 2, SS Thistlegorm a British Merchant Ship was on secondment to the British Military in the war effort in North Africa. It was spotted by two German Heinkel He 111 Bommers, that attacked and sank her near Shab Ali in the Gulf of Suez.

There she still lies, and is regularly dived by recreational divers. The wreck is applauded as one of the best shipwrecks in the world  to dive recreationally, as it has so much of it's cargo still to be seen due to the ease of entry and exit of the holds and plenty of light that penetrates the wreckage, and also for the marine life that has made it their home.

Although we dive on her most weeks, each year we also run a special trip as a commemorative trip to dive her on the anniversary and to pay homage to those merchant seamen and Royal Navy that lost their lives on that night. Nine souls in all were lost that fateful night.

​In 2016 on the 75th Anniversary of the sinking of Thistlegorm, we laid a biodegradable poppy wreath on the ship. We have dived the wreck every year on the 6th October ever since. Apart from the 6th October being the Anniversary of the sinking, it is also Elite Diving's founder Alun Evans' Birthday. This year is made a little more special, as Alun, will be celebrating his 70th Birthday on the same day and plans to dive on her to celebrate that as Thistlegorm is one of his favourite dives.

If you want to join Alun on this special day, just email our office to indicate your interest. We usually have approximately 26 divers each year diving Thistlegorm on the Anniversary of it sinking, and the boat we hire can take many more, so let us know if you would like to join the party.

To join us on this special day, contact [email protected]

The Lucky winner of our Dive show prize draw this year is Maya Hidajat, who lives in St Albans in Herts, and has been diving since 1998.
Seen above relaxing on a hammock after a dive out in Malapascu Philippines. She will be visiting Sharm to collect her prize with a dive buddy and her eight your old son, who enjoys snorkelling, so he's in for a real treat also.

Maya is an advanced diver and enjoys diving in warmer waters, usually South East Asia where she hails from. It will be the first time in Sharm for her, and I'm sure it won't be the last, once she samples what the diving is like here and that it's much closer to the UK than other palces of the similar qulity.​

We asked our old friend and collegue to come and pick out the winner at the end of the Go Diving Show. Alec "Taffro" Jones was the dive center manager with us in Sharm for many years, and now is Sales Manager at Suunto UK, and was attending the Suunto stand this year, he jumped at the chance when offered to draw out the winning ticket for this years prize. So all of you who know Alec well, and entered the draw, it's his fault you never won LOL.

Maya will be very happy with Alec’s effort, when he pulled out her entry ticket.
If you can't recognise him without his Taffro, Alec is the one in the middle with dark hair. A big difference to when he had sun bleached locks and no haircut for five years while working in Sharm, hense the nickname Taffro, as he is also Welsh with an affro  type hair style back in the day. Alec was also featured on the front cover of Diver magazine back in 2014 during his tenure with Elite Diving in Sharm.

G, Moyra and myself are staying at Holiday Inn Kenilworth during the dive show, and as usual, we have a stand at the show for the two days that the show is running.  
We had many of our divers join us after the show for drinks for the last few shows on the Saturday evening, and we had great great times socialising together with peoplw who dive with us, so we plan to do the same again. It's just a get together. Nothing fancy. You can get food from the hotel or many eating establishments around the town and then we can all join at the bar at the hotel for drinks. Nothing special just mingling with many of our Elite Divers.  
Some people attended the dive show on the Saturday and then joined us at our Hotel on the Saturday night and others joined us at our hotel on the Saturday night and then came to the dive show on the Sunday. Some attended the dive show for the two days and some just came for drinks with us and didn't attend the show.
 We will be at Kenilworth Holiday Inn for drinks on the evening of Saturday 28th February 2026.
If you need to stay overnight and not drive, there are many places to stay around the town if the Holiday Inn is not suitable or full, there is also The Peacock Town House which is an 11-minute walk from Holiday Inn.
The GO Diving Show is again held at NAEC Stoneleigh, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, CV8 2TA again this year and will be open to the public on Saturday 28th of February and Sunday 1st march 2026.

If you like submerged metal, come and join us on our Red Sea Wreck Extravaganza Liveaboard for 7 nights.
Sarting 19th September 2026 form Hurghada.

Strictly subject to weather conditions. Alternative wrecks and sites maybe substituted if weather dictates.

Day 1. Arrive at Hurghada and transfer to the boat to check in and pay the necessary onboard charges, Marine Park Tax, HEPCA environmental tax, entertainment tax, etc.

Day 2. After receiving approval from the coast guard, we head North for a suitable check dive, to reorientate ourselves with our equipment, weighting etc, followed by the first wreck dives at Abu Nuhas. Weather permitting, an overnight sail will take us North to Zafrana.

Day 3. Full Days Diving on Turkia before an overnight sail to Ras Gharib.

Day 4. An area full of wreck diving. Opportunities including SS Scalaria, MV Aboudy, HMS Nith, MV Bahr and MV Qtmas.

Day 5. Continuing South we reach Bluff Point for Rosalie Muller, SS Ulysses before heading over to SS Thistlegorm.

Day 6. Two early dives on Thistlegorm and then sail back to Abu Nuhas and the remaining wrecks there.

Day 7. An early start again to allow us to dive two more wrecks at Abu Nuhas before sailing back for the final wreck dive at El Mina and The T43 minesweeper. Arrive back in the harbour late afternoon.
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Day 8. Check out and depart from the boat. 

Wreck Extravagansa
You will dive exclusively on wrecks, but some wrecks are like living reefs with an amazing amount of marine life that have made the wrecks their homes. However, if wrecks are your passion, this trip is definitely for you. You will dive on Iconic and popular wrecks and you could be diving on wrecks that in some cases have had virtually no other divers visit. Wrecks that have been lost and left for decades and longer. War casualties, maritime disasters and some simply disappeared beneath the seas.
We will give you a full historical briefing on every wreck you dive on, and we will always be on the hunt for new discoveries. The last one was MV Qtmas which was found in October 2016.

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If you want to find out more and want to join this trip, which already is half full, please contact us by email|.
​email; [email protected]

We have been asked by many of our divers if we will be running one of our Southern Red Sea Liveaboards again, so we are planning to run a trip for 7 nights from 11 July 2026. It will run on a first-come first first-served basis. Same as usual, the first one the one who gets their non-refundable deposit to us first. In this case it's the first 24 as we have secuered a 24 birth Liveaboard.​

 This Liveaboard will start on 11th July 2026 for 7 nights with six days diving. G has led many Liveaboard's down South, so he, along with another two guides, will be working this trip also.
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The 11th July is also G's Birthday so you'll be celebrating his Birthday with him on your first night.

We're considering Elphinstone Daedalus and Zabargad Islands, but we may change this slightly and go further south to St Johns, depending on a few things such as weather, sea conditions and local advice depending on what action is where.

The starting point will depend on our final route which we will decide on well in time to make the transfer arrangements. But everybody will need to fly into Hurghada unless they can fnd flights to Marsa Alam.

We will be looking for palagics out in the deep blue, so we are calling this trip Big Blue South.

The boat has been purposly designed for space and comfort and hasn't the trappings of superficial luxury such as TV'S in each room like some Liveaboards. No hot tubs or jacuzzis. The space has been created so 24 divers can spread out and not be on top of each other.

If you are interested in joining this trip on 11 July 2026, please email us for more details.
​email : [email protected]

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Moyra has been Elite Divings' cornerstone of our office team from the start. It's Moyra who has implemented structure and protocol that makes our admin efficient, and messages to our divers seamless.This October, Moyra will celebrate her 70th Birthday. 
"NEVER!" I hear you say.

​Most years, we get many regular divers of ours that come to dive Thistlegorm on the anniversary of its sinking, which many of you will know is the 6th October. We usually celebrate another birthday on that day, but this year we are having THE BIG PARTY on the 10th October just for Moyra. Although her birthday isn't for a week or so later, she suggested the 10th so that our divers who are coming to dive Thistlegorm can also come to help her celebrate on the 10th. That's typical of Moyra, thinking about everyone else first.

There are divers that has already booked and arranged their departure date, especially so they can come and join Moyra's party.

There is an open invitation to everybody who would like to come. We haven't decided on the venue yet until we have a better idea of how many will be attending.

So if you can make it, drop our office a line and tell them so we can start making a list.

​This is not going to be a surprise party as we couldn't keep it hidden from Moyra, and it was her suggestion to have it on the tenth of October 2025 anyway.

Have a look to see if you can spot yourself or others you know in the slide show above as they change.   

Please email [email protected] to add your name to the list if you will be in Sharm for Moyra's Party on the 10th October 2025.