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.