In honour of Shark Week, we've compiled the Regaldive Top Five Shark Spots!

Galapagos Islands - One of the three corners of the Hammerhead Triangle in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Here it is possible to dive with hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of Hammerhead sharks that are attracted by schools of fish feeding on nutrient rich up-wellings around the seamounts and isolated islands. The great thing about the Galapagos is that Hammerheads can be seen all year round, although June to November is much calmer weather.

Philippines - Malapascua Island is one of the few places in the world where you can reliably see the very rare Thresher shark.  Twin this with the small island of Cabilao, which offers some fabulous sites for seeing schools of Hammerheads in the winter months from December to April. Shark View Point (also known as Hammerhead Point) is the number one spot for Hammerheads, with sometimes up to 100 on one dive.

Layang Layang, Malaysia - This is a small oceanic atoll, 300km north west of Kota Kinabalu, off the coast of Malaysian Borneo in the South China Sea. Offering complete isolation, pristine reefs and steep walls plunging 2000m into the blue, Layang Layang has gained a well-deserved reputation for the quality and quantity of its pelagic life. Hammerheads are abundant during their mating season (April and May). Grey Reef sharks, Leopard sharks and even Threshers and Silvertips can also be seen here.

Egypt – The Egyptian Red Sea offers a huge variety of potential shark diving locations, however perhaps the most reliable areas for sightings are the offshore islands of the Brothers, Daedalus, Rocky and Zabargad. Here divers frequently encounter Oceanic Whitetip, Thresher and Grey Reef sharks. September and October are the best months for Oceanic Whitetips.

Azores – The new frontier of shark diving in Europe, the Azores is one of the best destinations in the world to dive up close and personal with Blue and Mako sharks. However, tracking down these majestic deep sea creatures is not for the faint hearted. The sharks are typically found around a seamount some 20 miles offshore. The adrenaline pumping dives are carried out in blue water and call for excellent buoyancy skills.

It's always great to get feedback on our holidays!! When a guest comes back from resort and the only negative comment they can think of is the lack of decent tea bags... well, it means they had a great time! Thanks to Richard for his fantastic account of his recent trip to dive Pico in the Azores - 25 rays on one dive anyone!?!?! Just be sure to pack your tea bags next time...

Read all about Richard's adventure at /pico

Thanks to CW Azores and photography Jan Reyniers for the imagery.

The stunning Meeru Island Resort & Spa is picture postcard Maldives. Lying on a protected beautiful blue lagoon, with a long white sandy beach, the stunning backdrop of lush vegetation creates a tranquil, relaxing atmosphere.

Meeru Island Resort & Spa is the eastern most resort of North Male atoll and provides access to over 50 fantastic dive sites. The island's protected lagoon also offers excellent conditions for learners and snorkellers. Meerufenfushi Island also offers a good range of other land and water sports, including windsurfing, pitch & putt and tennis - meaning that there is plenty on offer for non-diving family and friends!

This award-winning resort has recently won the coveted 2013 Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor. Packages including flights, transfers and 7 nights FB accommodation in a Beach Villa start from just £1629 per person. What are you waiting for?

We are constantly developing our program to bring you the very best diving and the latest destinations at the right price. You love our Red Sea dive pack offers and we are working with our suppliers to bring you more of the same, worldwide. Take a peek at just some of the great value worldwide special offers that are available today and discover the world’s finest diving destinations for less… with Regaldive.

Grenada, Caribbean – HALF PRICE Dive and Stay

Buy one get one half price on dive packs (min 6 dives pp) and accommodation based on two sharing a standard room at True Blue Bay Resort and diving with Aquanauts. Buddy Week special offer valid for stays in May, June and July 2014.

Tobago, Caribbean - SAVE up to £150 pp on 14 night stays

Book a 14 night package at Nabucco's Resort Speyside Inn, Tobago, diving with Extra Divers and save up to £150 pp. This special offer is valid for two sharing a superior room and for departures from 1 August 2013 - 5 December 2013.

Bali, Indonesia – HALF PRICE Buddy Diving

Buy any dive pack or course and get the same half price when diving with Werner Lau at Matahari Beach Resort & Spa or Taman Selini.  Valid for arrivals 1 November - 20 December 2013 and 6 January to 15 April 2014.

Raja Ampat, Indonesia – SAVE £450 pp this Summer

Experience world class diving and exotic species aboard Dewi Nusantara for just £2544 pp. Valid for sailings on 2, 14, 26 August and 7, 19 September 2013. Boat only price includes 11 nights 1 bed space in state room, all meals and diving including free nitrox package worth £130. Contact us for packages including flights.

All offers are subject to availability and can be withdrawn without notice. For diving only bookings there is an additional admin fee of £15 per person.

1 July marks the start of Make Holidays Greener Month. Regaldive is delighted to be supporting this great initiative from The Travel Foundation to help raise awareness of how we can help those in the destinations we visit and make every holiday a more rewarding experience all round.

The theme for 2013 is ‘link with what’s local’. Throughout the month we will be sharing insider tips from our destinations around the world, local initiatives from our suppliers and hopefully a little bit of expert knowledge from you, our guests.

If you have a top dive spot, a recommendation for a tasty local restaurant, or a ‘must-see’ place of interest, please share your experiences with us and fellow divers. You can tweet us @Regaldive or join us on Facebook. Tips will also be shared here on our website.

Here are a few tips from the Regaldive team and our partners to get started:

‘The Chamber’ is a must-dive for those staying at Roots Camp in El Quseir. According to Steve in the Regaldive office this is a secret site known only to the owner…  As you fin back to the shore, a hole appears at 5m leading through tunnels and caverns and onto a large opening (the Chamber) bustling with marine life. Perfectly placed for a safety stop or a brilliant one for enriched air divers with longer bottom times.

Guests staying at True Blue Bay Resort in Grenada can enjoy an authentic Grenadian food experience with a weekly cookery class and rum tasting session! Gerlinde, who works at the on-site dive centre Aquanauts also recommends a visit to the hotel’s boutique which features an ‘Arawak’ museum exhibiting ancient carvings and pottery that has been excavated on the island.

Renowned as a treasure trove of biodiversity, the Bunaken National Marine Park in North Sulawesi is a must-dive, but also has some great sights topside. Guests diving with Eco Divers can support local wildlife by visiting the Tangkoko Nature Reserve, a protected forest and natural habitat of the cute Tarsier monkey.

Former resort representative and Regaldive team member Helena recommends you find time on your Luxor extension to visit Dendera Temple. This modestly sized but extremely interesting temple is located around 40 miles north of Luxor on the West Bank of the Nile across from the town of Qena. Although interesting architecturally, Helena suggests you go out of your way to Dendera to discover some of the only surviving relief images of Cleopatra.

Shark meat is off the menu on Sao Miguel Island in the Azores thanks to an awareness campaign supported by Nerus Dive Centre in Ponta Delgada.  So far four out of five restaurants on the Island have promised to support the ban and educate their customers about shark conservation ensuring that the only sharks you see in the Azores are in the water.

Immensely tasty food, served up in generous portions by very friendly and chatty staff. That’s the verdict from Regaldive’s Simon on the Ali Baba restaurant in Dahab! Stop by for shish kebab and some hot sweet tea and enjoy the sound of the ocean in one ear and the hustle and bustle from the local shops in the other. There’s even free wifi to catch up on the news at home. Great prices too!

When staying at the Al Sawadi Beach Resort in Oman and diving with Extra Divers Regaldive's Steve  says to make sure you dive the Mouse Trap site. This is a winning combination of drift and gentle diving but with tons of life from lobsters to puffer fish to leopard sharks. A drift dive around the back side of the pinnacle is followed by a whip back into the horse shoe shaped reef (hence  the name Mouse Trap) to end with a gentle safety stop.

It’s never too early to book your next diving adventure! Grab yourself a diving buddy and take advantage of our NEW great value dive pack and course offers.

With buy one get one free and buy one get one half price deals available across the Red Sea, Regaldive is committed to helping you save money on your dive holiday. But don’t leave it too long to make up your mind. These are limited time offers with limited availability. We WANT you to save money on your diving so please book early to avoid disappointment.

FREE diving in Hurghada

Book a 5 or 6 day dive pack and your buddy dives FREE. Share the cost and you’ll pay just £80pp for a 5 day dive pack including two guided boat dives /day, tanks, weights and air.

Valid for departure dates 3 January – 4 April and 25 April – 11 July 2014.

Learn to dive… This fantastic offer is also available on PADI Open Water, Open Water Fastrack or Advanced Course. The FREE diving offer is available for diving with Divers’ Lodge.

HALF PRICE diving in Dahab

Book a 5 or 6 day dive pack and your buddy dives HALF PRICE. Split the cost and you’ll pay just £116pp for a 5 day dive pack including two guided shore dives /day, tanks and weights. Also includes 5 additional FREE unaccompanied shore dives and FREE Nitrox 32%!

Valid for departure dates 4 January - 17 March, 3 May - 30 June and 16 November - 16 December 2014.

Best of both worlds… This fantastic offer is also available on combined Shore and Boat diving packs from £134pp. Learn to dive offers also available. The HALF PRICE diving offer is available for diving with Sinai Divers.

HALF PRICE diving in Marsa Alam

Book ANY dive pack or course and your buddy dives HALF PRICE. House reef dive packs start from just £70pp for a 4 day dive pack including 12 dives (first dive guided), tanks and weights and FREE Nitrox 32%. Jeep and house reef combination packs are also available.

Valid for departure dates 10 January – 15 March 2014.

This special offer is available for diving with Oasis Diving Centre.

HALF PRICE diving in El Gouna

Book a 5 or 6 day dive pack and your buddy gets the same HALF PRICE. Share the cost with your buddy and you’ll pay just £162pp (saving £54 each!) for a 5 day dive pack in El Gouna  including two unguided boat dives per day, tanks and weights. Plus FREE Nitrox 32%.

Valid for departure dates 1 January - 28 March, 30 April - 4 July  and  14 November - 14 December 2014.

Across the Red Sea… This great value HALF PRICE offer is also available on selected dive packs and courses at Dahab, Hamata, Marsa Alam, Safaga and Soma Bay when diving with Orca Dive Clubs.

Terms and conditions apply. All offers are subject to availability and can be withdrawn without notice. For diving only bookings there is an additional admin fee of £15 per person. Course materials and certification costs may apply. Available for new bookings only.

Regaldive team member, John Butland, enjoyed a trip aboard MY Superior in May.  Here he shares his experience...

"I’m really pleased to say I had a great trip on Emperor Superior recently. The itinerary was the ‘Famous Five’, taking in some of the best known dive areas in the Red Sea.

After our check dive the first of the main dives was the Rosalie Moller, a first for me. Not great visibility, but still a nice dive. Due to its depth it’s certainly a good idea to have your Nitrox qualification, just to make sure you have the maximum time down on the wreck. The following morning came the Thistlegorm. I know some people say ‘it’s not as good as it used to be’. But it is still amazing, definitely one of the world’s best wreck dives. We were the first boat there - one of the benefits of a liveaboard. So we were rewarded by being the first divers down on the wreck, with great visibility and absolutely no current. The second dive involved the classic penetration route and full exploration of the holds, it's just a shame we could only spend an hour down there!

Then off to Ras Mohammed, and another dive site that I have dived before but I’m sure I will never get tired of, Shark & Yolanda. Once again we were the only boat there and had a great dive - despite the huge current coming down between the reefs, I’ve never known it so strong. We were very pleased to see a large free swimming Moray and a friendly Hawksbill Turtle.

After another tasty meal on the boat we started the overnight trip down to the Brother Islands - certainly the part I was looking forward to most. First dive was on the wreck of the Numidia on Big Brother. It was an amazing site to view the large ship perched at such a precarious angle on the reef slope, encrusted in colourful soft corals.  A further two dives on Big Brother completed a satisfying day, the highlight being a few Grey Reef Sharks hanging about in the blue.

Although 6am is quite early to be woken up when on holiday, it’s certainly worth it when you’re in the water on Little Brother before breakfast! Another great couple of dives - made all that much better by some good shark sightings.  More Reef Sharks, and one in the blue that looked suspiciously like a large Silky. I was told that we were just entering the best time for sharks, with good sightings expected through until November.

Our final Famous Five destination was the Salem Express, a new dive site for me and one I’ve wanted to dive for a long time. It’s amazing how much coral growth there has been in a little over 20 years...

Our last day & a half’s diving took place around Safaga and Hurghada as we edged closer to our docking time. Supposedly easier diving at the end of our trip, but there was one surprise in store. A massive current at Shab Sheer gave us the ride of our lives, which was great fun. Luckily the boat crew were up to the job and made sure the Zodiac was there to meet us on surfacing, despite be half a mile from our intended surfacing point!

The final night at sea was a lovely still evening, with a beautiful sunset over the hills of Safaga - a great photo opportunity.

The Superior is a lovely boat, staffed by a friendly, attentive crew, which really helped make it such a great trip. Also, I met some nice people from around Europe and even South America -  a good mixture of 7 nationalities in total. All in all it was a very satisfying trip after over a year out of the water for me - I'd highly recommend it!"

We were delighted to hear from one of our regular snorkelling clients, Sara Lyth, on her return from Thulhagiri Island.  Sara kindly agreed to let us use her trip report on our website.

"We had yet another fantastic Regaldive holiday at Thulhagiri. I was asked by a friend to write up a review of the island, as they like to choose different islands each time, as we do. I thought this might be of interest..."

Thulhagiri Island Resort, Maldives: Trip Report March 2013

A superb place to be…

Accommodation

Wonderful little thatched cottages. Some cottages are single, and some in threes, but you don’t feel ‘attached’ to neighbours. Very clean, nice finish, bright rooms, all done out with bamboo. Bathrooms are inside, but have vents to outside. There is a back door for entry after beach, with tap to wash feet, goggles, flippers etc. Great shower – like a wet room – not an enclosed shower cubicle. Lovely sink area etc. Shower gel, shampoo and conditioner all provided, and topped up when empty. Plenty of towels, bath mat, flannels. Change of towels each day if you want. Plus beach towels, changed each day for outside.  Plenty of wardrobe space, bedside cabinet, television (we did not even turn on!), fridge, tea and coffee making facilities, kettle, dressing table. Plenty of room. Air conditioning (ours worked perfectly).  Big bed!

Outside

Each room has two long adjustable plastic seats. The patio then has two upright adjustable white plastic seats. Also, there is a washing line on either side of the patio, and pegs provided! The patios are small-ish and thatched – very nice. Big enough to sit on if it rained (which it did for 10 minutes in 15 days!) It means that you have a bit of an allocated space for your chairs and can move them around to get shade, or a better view, etc.

Birds

The island is covered with budgerigars of all sorts of colours. These are truly sweet birds, not at all tame, though. There were plenty of baby birds (but they looked just like smaller budgies!) The nests/homes are in various trees: they are empty coconuts! The birds all go to ‘bed’ at sunset!! They really are very sweet: everybody seemed to like them! Also herons and terns. There is a large McCaw parrot in the staff quarters.

The Island Itself

You can walk around the whole island in ten minutes, it’s only a five minute walk from one side of the island to other.  There are cottages on each side of the island.  One side of the island has sun, but does not get as hot. On the side of the island that has the sunset - all cottages are really hot, and the difference in temperature during the hot afternoon is very noticeable – it’s much hotter on the sunset side of the island which has the large beach.  Also, cottages on that side have easier access to the large beach: however there are no shades on the beach at all, so not many people were sat there during the day: it was mainly occupied during sunset hours!! So it depends on how hot you want to be as to where you opt for your room! We preferred the slightly cooler side of the island which often had a breeze.

There was a lovely sunset bar with tables and chairs on the big beach – but you could also take your drinks to the long chairs on the beach if you wanted to.

Tides and currents

The currents changed a lot, and could be very strong to swim against. Also, you really had to watch the tide times, too. It affected both the direction of the snorkelling, and the availability of getting out to the reef, and the areas you could get to.

At low tide it was tough to get over the top of some of the reef, especially on the large beach side of the island. OK if you can float in only one foot of water though – the reef was never exposed above the water at all. The waves were really quick and strong on the cooler side of the island, breaking into the wall, up and over – beautiful to watch. We never felt in any danger in the water, but watched other people struggle against the current a little when snorkelling.

Should say that if you watched the currents and the tides properly, then the snorkelling on the reef could be very calm indeed, especially on the beach side in the afternoons.

House Reef – Snorkelling

Plenty of coral, plenty of fish, and plenty to see. We saw amazing things over a period of 15 days – and tended to see new things each day. All the normal fish, but also eagle rays – off the house reef, one in shallow water on the large beach side, which we swam with for 15 minutes, while it ‘fed’ off the sandy floor.

Also plenty of Octopus – on the big beach side of the reef towards the boat (Dhoni) dock. Late afternoon we saw lion fish, stonefish, octopus, stingrays (large and small, beige and dark grey) and feather tail stingrays.

Black tipped sharks were truly common – all the time – varying lengths – up to 7 feet in length. Probably about 6 on the island reef, I would think – I could recognise 4 different ones by end of the holiday.

Turtles – 3 to 5 of them – usually on the part of reef between the Dhoni boat dock and the water bungalows.

There are two boat docks – the Dhoni diving dock, and a dock which brings people in from Male. Oh, also saw squid and dolphins on the reef edge. Drop off was good everywhere, and visibility was very good, unless there had been a strong tide or current and you were near the parts which had sand underneath, then it was all stirred up and you could not see well. But generally very clear.

Plenty of reef close to the surface, so you were actually eye to eye with fish at times, instead of always being about 4-6 feet above them! Saw about 10 fish we had never seen before, and still have not named! 

Also saw 3 types of Moray Eel: usual big brown, small white with black pretty markings all over, small black with white striped all down it, oh, and small brown with blotches over it. Not many of these, and usually late afternoon sightings.  No manta rays.

Diving

We do not dive, but I spoke to many people. A young couple from Austria did 12 dives. The first two were disappointing, as the current was so strong… the second dive was aborted after about 30 minutes, and all returned to the boat as the current was far too strong. This was also confirmed by a French couple (age about 65 with great experience – brought huge suitcases with ALL their own dive equipment in it – been diving for many years).  The dive was to Potato Reef.

The dive to the Banana Reef was excellent, though. BUT it all seemed to depend on the current and the tides a lot. Sometimes it took one and a half hours to do a rough Dhoni boat trip to the dive site because of the tides and currents, and one diver felt sick. Normally the dives are within maximum 40 minutes of the island. They said at the dive school that they have 50 dive sites. They are a 5 star PADI school. Two of the dives the elder couple did they said were the best they had done in the Maldives!!

There were a lot of Japanese divers, with a Japanese speaking person at the Dive School. Everybody seemed happy with the diving, and also with the organisation of the Dive School. The facilities were good – we went to visit. Teaching seemed good – met a lady from Scotland who tried a first dive ever, and described it all to me.

Food

Depends on what you like to eat!!! Most things either used garlic or chilli, or both. Quite a spicy buffet each evening: difficult to find plainer food sometimes. There was lots of live cooking – 3 stations each night.

The buffet was supposed to change every evening over a two week period, but many of the same items appeared a lot of times! The buffet in the evening was huge – the queues were long if you went at opening time (7.30pm). When the island was full, this wasn’t so good, but the second week was quieter.

We never went hungry and there was always plenty of choice. The Chinese stir fry (which was done to your specification) at lunch time was very nice. We didn’t try the pasta. They had a Vietnamese evening, a Maldivian one, a barbeque one, a continental one, a European one… but they were all pretty mixed, despite the titles! Good salad buffet, but if the something ran out as you got there it was not quickly replaced by more.

On the whole, the food was a bit too spicy for us, sadly I am allergic to chilli, so had to keep asking about the food. The chefs knew the answers, though, but it did limit me to a lot of chicken! Fortunately I love chicken! Not as much fish on offer as other some islands. Plenty of fruit, freshly cut, each evening.

Head chef is Austrian, so patisseries were good, especially meringues, and biscuits. Many home-made gateaux: much choice.

Restaurant, Reception and Inside Bar

All buildings ran into each other – with a beautiful thatched roof outside and bamboo inside. The dining area was nicely divided into different areas. On the last night you are invited to eat dinner on the beach, or the patio by the pool which is cooler, it’s the same buffet but nice to be ‘under the stars’! We thought the waiters were slower than at other Maldives islands we’ve been to.

The bar was also nicely divided into sections on two different levels. Service a little slow – better to wait at bar to get drink, then order at chairs, we found. Usual things each evening: crab race, diving video, watersports talk, magician (that was unusual!), disco, live band. Only started at 9pm when dinner finished.

Fridges in rooms are empty. They did not mind us taking drinks back to our room to put in fridge for use during the day. Because we had chosen all inclusive this time, they would give us 1 litre containers of mango juice (or other juice) for us to take back to our rooms… not all islands are as ‘easy’ as this, and will only serve drinks ‘by the glass’, and not allow them to be taken away from the bar area so we thought this was good.

Loads of cocktails were included in the all-inclusive, and many more drinks than usual, like Pimms, Grand Marnier, Good Whisky, not just local. Measures were huge: got a bit woozy one night after only two cocktails, as they used really good alcohol, not cheap stuff like most Maldivian islands!!  Unusual to see so much included in an ‘all inclusive’ package.

Staff

Very helpful. NO MOSQUITOS – INCREDIBLE! They fumigate once every two weeks. When I saw a few mosquitos around, I asked at reception when the next fumigation would be. They looked on computer and said it would be in four days’ time. They asked if this was a problem: I explained a few people were getting bitten, and I was thinking of using the spray I had brought, and being careful about leaving all doors open now. They brought the fumigation forward and did it the next day – just because I asked if they could! Unusual for the Maldives, in my experience!

Also, I had an accident with a beach chair.  I reported it, and they went straight away to collect the broken chair (I did not break it – it was already broken!).

Room boys were good…came once a day. Do not come into rooms into evening, which we didn’t mind. They did not clean the patio area that well, but the wind blew so much sand and leaves into this part each day… It was the windiest island we’ve been on, but warm wind, not cold.

Trips

The usual – a day in Male, (only 25 mins from airport/city), sunset fishing and eat fish you catch, sunset trip, desert island, deep sea fishing.

Watersports

Actually we saw more than used: windsurfers – 2 of them for about 4 days in the afternoon. One banana boat. Catamaran out one afternoon. Paddlers on boards for 2 days. A few canoes. Plenty of stuff to hire, for sure.

Also table tennis, table football. Books in reception, but mainly in German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.

People

Mostly German speaking, though mainly from Austria, then Switzerland, then Germany.  More Japanese than we are used to. Also some Russians. I reported two Russians to the Dive School staff…they had seen an Octopus, so were naturally excited, but they kept standing on the coral, and actually were breaking pieces off the coral. ALL people very friendly, except some of the Russians and the Japanese, but I think this was because of the language barrier. They didn’t seem to talk to anybody, really.

The Austrians and Swiss were very friendly, but then we have been to those countries a lot, and I speak good German.  Met a number of nice people and keeping in touch with two Germans, have already received an email from an Austrian woman!  Met only one French pair. Asked other people if they had seen any Italians… only one pair on the island, it would appear! We were the only people from England for 14 days, which suited us very well! On the last day, two people arrived from England, and told us the news and that there had been three lots of snow and freezing weather while we were away – YIPPEE!

Anything else?

Dress… casual. Very easy going. Sand everywhere – no shoes.

Lots of room to fly kites on the large beach in the sunset. Lots of people thought it was fun, too, so that was nice!

One day I was half way round the island snorkelling. We had decided to miss lunch, as we really don’t usually eat so many meals each day. So I thought I might as well go all the way round – I do try to snorkel each island without stopping all the way round once only during a Maldives holiday. It took over 3 hours, as I took many photos all the time, and I hit very strong currents on the last homeward stretch of water – but saw some beautiful bat fish right at the end! Loads of baby fish in the shallow parts…love to see them, too.

Find out more about Thulhagiri Island Resort >

Divers are being asked to help measure plankton!  Scientists are enlisting sailors, divers, anglers and fishermen to help with what they hope will be the world's biggest study of plankton in the oceans.  Researchers at Plymouth University's Marine Institute want seafarers to help measure the quantity of plankton.  The results will help them to understand how life in the oceans is changing.

Scientists fear that the population of phytoplankton in the world's oceans is being affected by rising sea temperatures, with a paper published in the journal Nature in 2010 controversially suggesting that it had declined by as much as 40% since the 1950's due to climate change.  If this is the case it would have damaging consequences for every aspect of marine life, say researchers.

But data on phytoplankton populations is sparse.  The Plymouth team hope that the readings taken by seafarers will ultimately allow them to test the theory.  In order to measure their populations, seafarers are being asked to drop a plain white disk over the side of their boats attached to a measuring tape.

They are asked to record the depth at which it disappears from view, and upload the figure to a mobile app.  This information will help scientists estimate the amount of plankton in the sea and how it varies from place to place and year to year.

Find out more and download the Sacchi app here >

Regaldive are thrilled to add Roots in El Quseir to the Red Sea programme.  Run by the well-respected British Pharaoh Dive Club team, Roots is a small friendly resort with an excellent house reef.

The natural building materials, magnificent mountain backdrop and unspoilt beaches make for a wonderfully relaxing destination. Roots Trip Advisor reviews speak volumes, with exceptional comments from happy divers.

Pharaoh Dive Club is a PADI 5 Star Gold Palm IDC centre, located on the beach at Roots in El Quseir.  The British owned and managed centre has direct access to a good house reef.  Zodiac and hard boat diving is available from El Quseir harbour, just 10 minutes away.  The house reef has a very shallow area for training, and a dedicated classroom.

Find out more about Roots in El Quseir >