COLONA DIVE CENTER & LIVEABOARDS

Colona Dive Center is a Scandinavian Dive Center with branches in several destinations, including Sharm El Sheikh. The Colona instructors are well educated and experienced, and several languages are spoken among the staff. Needless to say, safety is considered very important! Never been diving? Already certified, and looking for some adventure? …with Colona you are in good company! They offer courses for both beginners and experienced divers who want to improve their skills; as well as daily diving and live-a-boards to fascinating wrecks and intense coral reefs.

Colona Dive Center is open every day, around the year - so why wait…the dolphins and sharks are calling…   Taking a trip on one of the Liveaboards will open your eyes to the ease of diving, no more lugging heavy equipment along crowded jetties each day or having to fight your way through a wall of bubbles on some Local dive sites.  A typical trip on the Colona will last for one week. This will give you an experience of what the Red Sea can really offer; wrecks, walls, drifts, intense coral reef and peaceful night diving. The itinerary will include all of the famous sites you have already heard about and maybe even dived from a daily boat. Dive sites look different when it's only your group diving them! That's the real beauty of liveaboard relaxed diving without the crowds. Here's a brief description of some of the sites you will come across on your liveaboard adventure.

Shark and Yolanda Reef: At the heart of Ras Mohammed National Park . Incorporates a wall that drops to 800m with and exhilarating drift on to a rich coral plateau that is Yolanda reef, so called because of the cargo ship that hit her in the early 80's. This wreck was carrying a shipment of bathroom fittings and some of her containers spilled on to the plateau before she slipped to a watery resting place, some say at 120M deep!! If you look closely among the toilets! You may see the remains of a car that was on the deck. So truly this dive has it all and is rated as one of the best in the world.

The Reefs of Tiran: If the weather is kind to you all of your dives in Tiran will be drift dives. Drift = Current = Big fish!! Tiran is one of the favourite places to see sharks and home to hammerheads in the summer months. Only last week three hammerheads were seen at the back of Jackson Reef. Tiran is not just one dive it is many, each offering their own unique seascape. You will not be disappointed. 

SS Thistlegorm: A wreck not to be missed if you are visiting the Red Sea , it is world famous. Unfortunately when you are world famous every one wants to see you. So Thistlegorm can be a little crowded at times especially when the daily boats arrive. Therefore the best time to view it is early morning or late afternoon.  

The Gulf of Suez: Some sites that should not be overlooked in the Gulf of Suez are; Shag Rock: A small teardrop shaped reef that is full of life and has some of the most luminescent soft corals you will ever see. It also has a wreck at the northern end called Sara H, well worth looking into. 

Gubal Wall: A Drift on a drop off!! This wall has overhangs that are full of glass fish and some creepy caves to explore. Gubal wreck: If weather conditions are favourable you can visit this unknown wreck which lies diagonally in the water from 5M down to 30M and is host to a Hump Head Wrasse that is the size of a small inflatable boat! 

Abu Nuhas: The shipwreck reef, Four in total can be dived at this eerie place. They are; Giannis D, Carnatic, Christola K and the Olden (half a wreck!) all with individual histories and stories to tell, plus as with all of the wreck dives in the Red Sea they are full of fish life. 

A typical day on Colona Liveaboards will begin with an early rise 07.30 with coffee, tea or juice and biscuits. Ready for the first dive of the day, then up for breakfast which will be waiting on the table for you Yum! Yum! Let breakfast digest for a few hours and take the second dive of the day at around 11.30 after this one a light lunch of cold cut's, pasta and salad. Then a quick siesta or a sunbathe before the third of the day usually made around 15.30-17.30 depending on daylight hours. Then a sumptuous dinner at around 19.00-20.00 with a night dive for those with enough energy to do it at 21.00-22.00 
The cuisine on board is supplied by professionally trained cooks they can offer everything from European, Middle Eastern, Vegetarian, Barbecues and lots more just ask. In the evenings relax on the aft deck sipping a cold beer, staring at the stars and just listening to the quiet!!