Divesites & maps
On this page we share diving maps with regards to our Brotherdive trips.
We include lots of background information to these maps, including our personal experiences to give you the complete information about the dive site.
Below you'll find an overview of our available diving maps.
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Dive sites Hurghada (Egypt)
Hurghada offers amazing dive spots because it’s located in a great area in the Red Sea. The Red Sea is home to amazing Reefs with a teeming marine life, pelagic fishes, Reef Sharks, turtles and Dolphins. The Red Sea Reef stretches over 2250 km along the coast of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. There are more than 1,100 species of fish that call this Red Sea Reef their ‘home’. It also has a variety of 200 soft and hard corals. The Red Sea Reef was officially declared as one of the 7 Natural Wonders of Africa.
Dive sites BDE - Brothers / Daedalus / Elphinstone (Egypt)
This route is the Holy Trinity of the Red Sea: BDE is an offshore national park and a must see for any avid diver. The area is known for all the different types of sharks, including tiger sharks, hammerheads, oceanic white tips, whale sharks, as well as threshers, silky and reef sharks.
These are exclusive dive sites with no daily boats in sight and the area is home to some of the rarer species of the Red Sea.
Dive sites Palau (Micronesia)
Diving in paradise
Palau is an archipelago of more than 586 islands and about 20,000 inhabitants, located in the western Pacific Ocean and sharing maritime boundaries with Indonesia and the Philippines. Palau is part of the Micronesian Island chain and is located just north of the Equator. This gives Palau some of the most favourable tropical weather on earth with moderate temperatures and soft ocean breezes all year round.
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Dive sites Raja Ampat North (Around Kri Island)
Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small isles and it is a part of the newly named West Papua Province of Indonesia which was formerly Irian Jaya.
Raja Ampat diving offers some of the best diving in the world. It is the world’s most bio-diverse marine region with more recorded fish, coral and mollusk species than anywhere else on the planet.
Our ‘home base’ was Kri Island which is located in the Dampier Strait. There are more than 30 sites in closest proximity of the Island.
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Dive sites Bunaken area (Indonesia)
With over 50 wonderful sites to choose from, the Bunaken Marine Park stretches over 75,000 hectares in the deep waters of the Sulawesi Sea, with depths from 3 to 1300 meters is this the home of a large variety of marinelife.
Definitely making this a unique diving experience
We covered 25 dive sites in total, with detailed information about the dive site. The sites are located around Bunaken Island and the mainland around Manado.
The ‘must see’ dive sites around Bunaken are:
Ron’s Point, Pangalisang (Manado Tua), Mandolin, Lekuan 1 & 2 and Sachiko Point.
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Dive sites Lembeh Strait (Indonesia)
The Lembeh Strait counts over 90 dive sites. We’ve covered 25 dive sites in our Lembeh Strait dive site overview.
Note that diving in the Lembeh Strait is a differend kind of diving. You can’t compare the dives here with ‘normal’ dives. Almost all dives in the Strait are ‘Muck’ dives. Muck dives gets its name from the sediment that lies at the bottom of many dive sites a frequently muddy or “mucky” environment., what basically means that you’re diving on (volcanic) black sand with lots of rubbish around you……
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Dive sites Mabul Island (Malaysia)
Mabul offers divers an extraordinary array of dive sites and an astonishing diversity of marine life.
Mabul has long been known as a macro diver’s paradise and is indeed one of the richest single destinations for exotic small marine life anywhere in the world.
We covered 9 dive sites around Mabul Island. You can’t compare it to Sipadan (which is close to Mabul), but it’s still worth to checkout a couple of these dive sites.
The ‘must see’ sites are: Paradise 1 & 2 and Eel garden
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Dive sites Sipadan Island (Malaysia)
Diversity is the beauty of this amazing reef: It offers wall dives with vertical drops to over 600m, Cleaning stations that attract Manta Rays, Devil Rays and all kinds of sharks! 1000’s of schooling fish and hidden away in the coral shallows are some of the world’s best macro life such as Pygmy Seahorses, and other marine life that is still to be identified.
This is truly one of the last unexplored frontiers on Planet Earth and it was a real privilege to dive here !!
We made 20 dives on Sipadan Island in 4 days.
The ‘must see’ sites are: Barracuda Point, South Point and the Drop-Off
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Dive sites Kapalai (Malaysia)
Kapalai is the third point of the famous ‘Golden Triangle’, with Sipadan and Mabul being the other two. Kapalai is not a true island but a sandbar on which they build a resort on. Kapalai is, like Mabul, also a 20 minutes boatride from Sipadan.
While the resort was originally built for it’s proximity to world-famous Sipadan, we also discovered the paradise that awaited just beneath the resort.
Kapalai is undoubtedly one of the premiere macro dive sites in the world !
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Dive sites on South Ari Atol (Maldives)
The number of dive sites on the South Ari atoll in the Maldives is overwhelming. There are around 50 well known dive sites to pick from. You can all reach them from Vilamandhoo Island were we spend our first BrotherDive in 2011.
To be honest, there are no ‘bad’ dive sites around Vilamandhoo…. The question is more like; how much of them can you dive in 1 holiday….
Never the less, we do have a couple of ‘ must see’ dive sites here as well: Rangali Madivaru, 7th heaven, Angaga Thila, Reethi Thila, Dhigurah Arches, Lucky Rock, Broken rock, Orimas Faru, Reethi Thila