Diving the Red Sea, Egypt

The Red Sea is where diving history was written, and you feel that weight the moment you descend. It is a strange, beautiful contradiction—above the surface, it’s dry, dusty, and silent; below, it is an explosion of life and color that makes no sense. We dive here for the sheer scale of it. People are not lying when they talk about the beauty of the reefs here or the wrecks like SS Thistlegorm guarded by schools of fish so thick you might lose your buddy.

It might also be the most reliable diving on the planet. The visibility feels endless, the reefs are neon-bright, and the sharks—especially the oceanic whitetips—have an attitude you don't find elsewhere. We come here because it delivers every single time. Whether it’s the adrenaline of a deep wall or the silence of a rust-covered gun deck, diving in Egypt for us feels like the gold standard.