The Brothers: Little Brother - Dive site - Egypt

A guide to scuba diving at The Brothers: Little Brother

Dive site: The Brothers: Little Brother

Location: Egypt, Offshore and Deep South

Dive type: Reef dive, boat dive, wall dive, naturist dive

Skill level: Beginner

Visibility: The Brothers area and the Little Brother dive site generally offers an under water visibility of 20 m / 65 ft.

Depth: Little Brother has a maximum depth that goes on well beyond 70 m / 230 ft and the average depth for the dive site is 25 m / 80 ft.

Water temperature: The water temperatures in The Brothers area and around Little Brother changes depending on time of year. The warmest month for scuba diving is September, when the hot Egyptian summer season has heated the waters in this area to around 27° C / 81° F. The coldest month is February when temperatures commonly stay down around 20° C / 68° F.

Dive site information: The Brothers are two small islands in the central Red Sea area, more than 36 nautical miles off El Quseir. The remoteness of the islands makes the marine life in the area outstanding. Little Brother is located approximately 1 km / 0.6 miles south of the Big Brother. Just like its sibling, Little Brother offers some extraordinary diving experiences and scuba divers frequently stay here on diveaboards for more than a week without getting bored. Little Brother is often referred to as one of the best naturist dive sites in the Red Sea. Since Little Brother is the top of a massive reef pillar, it offers wall diving well beyond 70 m / 230 ft.

Marine life: While scuba diving at Little Brother you can enjoy an outstanding coral growth and particularly the diversity of the soft corals is breathtaking. Schooling fish is attracted to this dive site en masse, and can sometimes almost look like a solid wall that blocks out the light. Scuba diving here will let you encounter endless schools of unicorns, snappers and surgeonfish – just to mention a few of the many species. There are several kinds of sharks drawn to this remote reef, including whitetip reef shark, gray reef shark, tiger shark, hammerheads and the rare oceanic whitetip shark. If you are really lucky you can even spot whale shark at Little Brother. Little Brother is also one of the riches areas for reef fish species, in diversity as well as in density.