SS Glorious Miss Nouran

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SS Glorious Miss Nouran at anchor over a turquoise shallow, seen from the port side

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40 m · 26 guests · 13 cabins

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SS Glorious Miss Nouran is the southern hull of Hurghada’s Sea Serpent fleet: 40 metres long, 7.5 metres in the beam, 13 cabins for 26 guests. It is one vessel, not two — the long name is simply two names for the same hull. The script lettering on her side reads “G / SeaSerpent”, the deck plan is titled “Sea Serpent Glory”, and the current photo set on the operator’s site is filed under “Miss Nouran” — the same rooms in both. The operator’s booking system lists her as a single entry, “Sea Serpent Glorious Miss Nouran”.

Do not confuse her with her sisters: Sea Serpent Grand is four metres longer and takes 28 guests in 14 cabins, and Sea Serpent Contessa is 36 metres and 24 guests. There is no trimix blending station here as there is on the flagship: this hull carries three compressors at 750 litres a minute, two nitrox membranes at 600, and a booster pump brought aboard on request.

The layout is straightforward and reads directly off the deck plan. The lower deck holds eight twin cabins with portholes, with the engine room aft. The main deck has the galley, the crew cabins, the dive deck and the stern platform with two ladders into the water. The sun deck carries four cabins with large windows, the suite forward with panoramic glazing wrapped around the bow, a bar with fridges and a teak counter, a jetted plunge pool, and sofas and sunbeds on teak decking. Above that the fly deck holds the wheelhouse, a shaded lounge and a sunbathing area right forward. The saloon and dining room run the full width of the vessel, finished in pale oak with windows along both sides.

Sea Serpent Fleet works on an all-in basis: park and port fees, reef tax, the fuel surcharge, boat and diving permits, airport transfers both ways, nitrox and Wi-Fi are all inside the price of the week. There are no compulsory payments on board at all — what is left is the visa (35 euro) and gratuities, which the operator recommends but does not require. In Egypt that is rare: most neighbouring boats collect between 150 and 400 euro on board.

The vessel works mainly in the south: almost every departure leaves Port Ghalib and returns there, and every trip is seven nights. In the winter of 2028 the schedule moves her north to Hurghada, and on those dates the port of departure and the port of arrival differ — which changes the flight home. The first night is always spent on board at the quay; the last is spent on board or in a 4-star hotel, and that is decided by the vessel’s schedule, not by the guest.

No mark-up

You pay the rate the operator publishes. The only thing added on top is the actual payment processing cost — no fee of ours.

We run the booking

Correspondence with the operator, holding your places, the contract, confirmation and all paperwork sit on our side. Nothing for you to arrange yourself.

Pay by card

We send you a Stripe invoice — pay by card, in your own currency, from anywhere in the world. The transfer to the operator is handled on our side.

Support in your language

We help you pick the cabin and dates, answer questions on the route and gear, and stay reachable until you are home — in English, in your time zone.

We quote the exact amount when confirming the booking: it covers the operator's rate plus the actual payment processing cost. No hidden charges.

Yacht Specifications

Length

40 m

Beam

7.5 m

Material

Wood

Year Built

2020

Capacity

26 guests

Cabins

13

Speed

12 knots, 10 cruising

Engine

2 × MAN 1100 HP; generators 2 × 110 kW and 1 × 80 kW

Refit

2022

Bathrooms

15

Tender

2 tenders of 5.7 m with 60 HP outboards

Water capacity

11 t

Fuel capacity

9 t

Freshwater maker

watermaker, 18,000 l per day

On Board

Individually controlled air conditioning in every cabin
En-suite bathroom with shower in every cabin
Fridge in the cabin
Safe in the cabin
Bath and hand towels and a bathrobe for every guest, towels changed midweek
Daily cabin housekeeping
Full-width saloon with air conditioning and soft seating
Dining room with panoramic windows and a buffet line
Coffee station in the saloon
Sun deck bar with fridges and a teak counter
Jetted plunge pool on the sun deck
Teak sun deck with sofas and sunbeds
Shaded lounge on the fly deck and a bean-bag sunbathing area forward
Audio and video system, television in the aft saloon
Camera station with charging and a separate rinse tank for underwater gear
Charging stations on board
Free Wi-Fi
Outdoor freshwater showers on the dive deck
220 V power, European sockets — bring an adaptor
No smoking in cabins, the saloon or the dive area
Dive gear stays out of the saloon and cabins — these are dry areas
The crew speaks English; guides also cover German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Polish

Diving on board

3–4 dives a day, 2–3 on the last day
Dive deck for 26 divers, two rows of tank stations along the sides
Stern platform with two ladders
Tanks and weights included
Nitrox 29–32% free of charge, certification required
Three compressors at 750 l/min
Two nitrox membranes at 600 l/min
Rebreather support; portable booster pump on request
Sidemount diving with a single tank, DIN adaptors
Two 5.7 m tenders take groups to the entry points
Individual station with a crate and hanger on the dive deck
Separate rinse tank for underwater camera gear
ENOS system on board
SSI courses, nitrox included, run on board
1–3 dive guides on board
The operator's certifying agency is SSI

Sea Serpent's experience requirements are softer than the Egyptian norm and vary by route: Fury Shoals — 10 dives; St. John's and Daedalus & St. John's — 10 dives or Advanced Open Water; Daedalus, Zabargad & Rocky, Rocky, Zabargad & St. John's, the Strait of Tiran and the northern route — 20; Brothers — 30 or Advanced Open Water; Daedalus & Fury Shoals — 30; BDE and North & Brothers — Advanced Open Water and 30 dives recommended. The usual Egyptian rule of thumb, south equals AOWD plus 50, does not apply here: on this vessel the deep south is easier to join than the north. A valid certification card and a completed medical questionnaire are compulsory. The operator's list of gear you must bring yourself: dive computer, SMB, snorkel, regulator with an alternate air source, torch for night dives, and a weight belt or a jacket with integrated weights; spare straps, seals and a service kit are worth packing. The vessel's specification lists rental and spare equipment as available, but the fleet FAQ warns that rental gear is not normally kept on board and has to be ordered at least two weeks before departure. All diving is within no-decompression limits and Egyptian law caps depth at 40 metres. Night dives are banned inside the marine parks. Gloves and knives are prohibited by law, with fines up to 10,000 Egyptian pounds; feeding fish, walking on coral and throwing anything overboard are all forbidden. Passport details must reach the operator's office at least 8 days before departure.

Food and drink

Full board for all seven nights
European and Egyptian cooking, served as a buffet
Local fresh fish and seafood
Bread and pastries baked on board every day
Fruit basket available at all times
Water, soft drinks, tea, instant coffee, fresh juices and smoothies free of charge
Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free meals on advance request
Nespresso capsules, sparkling water and alcohol charged separately

Special dietary needs — vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, allergies — should be flagged in advance, and the operator is happy for you to bring your own products. Alcohol is sold on board but is not in the price. The operator prefers cash on board to avoid exchange-rate swings but does accept Visa and Mastercard; cash is taken in euro, US dollars, pounds sterling and Egyptian pounds.

Navigation and safety

Two wheelhouses, radar and echo sounder, GPS and compass
VHF and HF radios, satellite phone, walkie-talkies between the vessel and both tenders
EPIRB distress beacon, AIS and SART, signal flares
Rescue rope launching gun
ENOS system for locating drifting divers
Two life rafts for 25 people each, serviced annually
45 life jackets and life buoys
Fire alarms, foam sprinklers in the galley and engine room, extinguishers
Escape hatches and a spare bilge pump
CCTV system
24-hour deck watch
First aid and oxygen kits, two 50-litre oxygen cylinders, AED on board
Captain and one crew member certified in first aid
Contract with a hyperbaric chamber and a local hospital
Evacuation plan posted on the dive deck
Safety briefing and a drill walking the whole vessel on day one
Crew trained with the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
Sewage treatment and holding tanks

Cabins

· 8 cabins

Twin beds

Beds: 2 single beds

Eight cabins on the lower deck — the base category the weekly price is quoted from. Two beds along the sides, a cabinet with a fridge between them, and a recess with a shelf and reading lights above the headboards. Pale oak throughout, a built-in wardrobe with a safe, and an en-suite bathroom with a shower behind a glass door. Light comes from two small portholes above the beds. There is no category supplement: these are the cabins the headline price refers to.

Individually controlled air conditioning En-suite bathroom with shower Fridge Safe and built-in wardrobe Towels and bathrobe

· 4 cabins

Twin beds

Beds: 2 single beds

Four cabins at sun deck level: the same two beds, but a large rectangular window across the bulkhead instead of a porthole, and far more daylight. You step straight out onto the deck from the corridor, ten paces from the bar and the sunbeds. The vessel's own description calls these cabins convertible, with the beds pushed together into a double; the booking system sells the category as a twin. The operator charges 75 euro per person per trip for the deck, and that supplement is already inside the price of the berth.

Individually controlled air conditioning En-suite bathroom with shower Fridge Large window with a sea view Towels and bathrobe

· 1 cabin

Double bed

Beds: 1 double bed, convertible to twins

The only suite and the best cabin on board: it occupies the forward part of the sun deck, with windows curving from side to side and a long counter with drawers running beneath them — room to spread out camera gear. The bed stands in the middle of the room, with an armchair beside it and a private bathroom. There is no cabin sharing; the suite is sold whole. The operator charges 300 euro per cabin per trip for the category, and that supplement is already inside the price of the berth.

Individually controlled air conditioning En-suite bathroom with shower Fridge Panoramic windows from side to side Long counter with drawers Towels and bathrobe

Schedule & Pricing

Fury Shoals

Port Ghalib to Port Ghalib, 7 nights. The gentlest of the southern routes and the only one the operator opens at ten logged dives. Fury Shoals is a scatter of reefs along the south-western coast: the coral gardens are barely touched, depths are forgiving and currents moderate. The key sites are Shaab Sataya, a six-mile horseshoe reef whose lagoon holds a resident family of spinner dolphins and where the boat moors for the night; Abu Galawa Big and Small with a sunken tug and coral mazes; Claudia Reef with swim-throughs and shafts of light; El Malahi and El Shiliniat with shallow gardens. Crossings add Shaab Maksour with its sheer walls, Shaab Sharm, Marsa El Shouna with a sandy plateau full of table corals, the Abu Dabbab reefs and almost always Elphinstone, the famous finger reef whose north and south plateaus draw grey reef and oceanic whitetip sharks.

October 2026
1 departure
January 2027
1 departure

Daedalus, Zabargad & Rocky

Port Ghalib to Port Ghalib, 7 nights. The deep south: three offshore reefs, each reached across open water. Daedalus, also called Abu El Kizan, stands 96 kilometres from shore, marked by a lighthouse and visible from far off; its walls drop from 30–40 metres to half a kilometre, hammerheads line up on the plateau in summer and mantas and whale sharks pass through in spring. Zabargad is an island where olivine was mined as far back as the pharaohs, its walls carpeted in soft corals and gorgonians. Rocky is a cluster of submerged rocks with a swim-through at twenty metres and leopard and whitetip reef sharks resting on the sand. Crossings take in Elphinstone, Shaab Maksour, Gotta Marsa Alam and the Abu Dabbab reefs. The operator asks for 20 dives or an Advanced Open Water card.

September 2026
1 departure
October 2026
1 departure

St. John's

Port Ghalib to Port Ghalib, 7 nights. St. John's is the southernmost reef cluster in Egyptian waters, almost on the Tropic of Cancer. Habili Ali delivers giant gorgonians and black coral, Grey Reef holds silvertips and hammerheads on its western side, and Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft coral crowded with snapper, butterflyfish and barracuda. Umm Kharariem, the St. John's caves, stands apart: shallow cracks in the reef open into tunnels and caverns pierced by shafts of light. Add Big and Small Gotta, Om Orouk, Dangerous Reef and Sirnaka Island, with Elphinstone and the Fury Shoals sites on the crossings. The entry bar is low: 10 dives or Advanced Open Water.

September 2026
1 departure
November 2026
1 departure

BDE — Brothers, Daedalus & Elphinstone

Port Ghalib to Port Ghalib, 7 nights. Three offshore reefs Egypt simply calls the best: Brothers, Daedalus and Elphinstone. Big Brother carries two wrecks — the Italian transport Aida at 15–45 metres and the 130-metre British cargo ship Numidia, sunk in 1901 and draped down the wall from 10 to 80 metres, both so overgrown with soft coral they are hard to read as ships. Small Brother is one continuous wall of gorgonians with a plateau where grey reef sharks and hammerheads hold. Daedalus adds open water and pelagics, Elphinstone closes the week. Currents are strong and shifting, and all entries and exits are from the tenders. The operator recommends Advanced Open Water and 30 dives.

November 2026
1 departure
March 2027
1 departure

Rocky, Zabargad & St. John's

Port Ghalib to Port Ghalib, 7 nights. The furthest south in a single week: Rocky and Zabargad lie close together south-east of Ras Banas, with St. John's another forty kilometres to the south-west. Rocky is sheer rock in open water with strong current and constant pelagic traffic; Zabargad has ancient olivine workings above water and a forest of soft coral below. St. John's brings Habili Ali and Habili Gafaar, the Umm Kharariem tunnels, Big and Small Gotta and Dangerous Reef. Crossings add Elphinstone, Shaab Maksour and the Fury Shoals reefs. The sites are exposed, rarely shared with other boats, and the visibility is usually the best on the coast. Requires 20 dives or Advanced Open Water.

November 2026
2 departures
December 2026
1 departure

Daedalus & Fury Shoals

Port Ghalib to Port Ghalib, 7 nights. A combination: the calm coral gardens of Fury Shoals plus an open-water run out to Daedalus. The first half of the week covers Marsa El Shouna, Shaab Sataya with its dolphins, Abu Galawa and its sunken tug, the swim-throughs of Claudia Reef and El Malahi. Then an overnight crossing to Daedalus with its lighthouse, sheer walls and the plateau where hammerheads are looked for. The return takes in Elphinstone, Shaab Maksour, Gotta Marsa Alam and the Abu Dabbab reefs. Of all the southern programmes this one carries the highest bar — the operator asks for 30 dives.

April 2027
1 departure
June 2027
1 departure

Daedalus & St. John's

Port Ghalib to Port Ghalib, 7 nights. Daedalus and St. John's in one week: open water and pelagics on the first, coral mazes and tunnels on the second. Daedalus is the most offshore reef in Egypt, with a hammerhead plateau and walls dropping into the blue. St. John's gives Habili Ali and Habili Gafaar with black coral and gorgonians, the light shafts of the Umm Kharariem caves, Om Orouk and Dangerous Reef. Between them come Elphinstone, Shaab Maksour, the Abu Dabbab reefs, Shaab Sharm and Shaab Sataya with its dolphins. The entry bar is low for this geography: 10 dives or Advanced Open Water.

April 2027
1 departure
April 2028
1 departure

North & Brothers

Hurghada to Hurghada, 7 nights. The only wrecks-plus-offshore-reef combination in the schedule. It opens with the northern wrecks: the Thistlegorm, a British 1941 war transport at 18–30 metres whose holds still hold trucks, motorcycles and crates of ammunition; the Giannis D and the Carnatic on Abu Nuhas reef; the Rosalie Moller in the Gubal Strait; the Dunraven off Shaab Mahmoud. Then Ras Mohammed with the Shark Reef and Yolanda walls. The second half of the week is the Brothers: Aida and Numidia on Big Brother, the walls and plateau of Small Brother. The operator recommends Advanced Open Water and 30 dives.

January 2028
1 departure

Northern Wrecks & Strait of Tiran

Hurghada to Hurghada, 7 nights. The northern wrecks plus the four reefs of the Strait of Tiran. Jackson, Woodhouse, Thomas and Gordon sit in a line across the strait between Sinai and Tiran Island: the current is noticeable, but the plateaus and walls are solid hard and soft coral, gorgonian fans and schooling fish, and hammerheads pass Jackson in summer. Added to this are the Thistlegorm, the Abu Nuhas wrecks, the Rosalie Moller, the Dunraven, Ras Mohammed and Anemone City, plus the coral gardens of Shaab El Erg, Gotta Abu Ramada, Careless Reef and Jack Fish Alley. 20 dives recommended.

January 2028
1 departure

Brothers

Hurghada to Hurghada, 7 nights. A week around the two islets of El Akhawein — the Brothers — rated the best diving in Egypt and among the best in the world. Both islands are the tops of submerged mountains, the seabed around them drops hundreds of metres, the walls are hard and soft coral throughout, and grey reef sharks, hammerheads and, in winter, thresher sharks work the reef. Big Brother holds the Aida and the Numidia. The remaining days cover the Safaga and Hurghada reefs: Abu Kifan, Panorama, Middle Reef, Gotta Abu Ramada, Careless Reef, Ras Abu Soma and the Salem Express wreck. Requires 30 dives or Advanced Open Water.

January 2028
1 departure
February 2028
1 departure

Northern Reefs & Wrecks

Hurghada to Hurghada, 7 nights. Classic northern Red Sea and the best way into the liveaboard format. The centrepiece is the Thistlegorm: two and sometimes three dives on the 1941 transport whose holds still hold trucks and motorcycles. Then Abu Nuhas reef with four ships — the Giannis D with its broken stern, the 1869 Carnatic with its skeletal frames, the Chrisoula K and the Kimon M. Add the Rosalie Moller in the Gubal Strait, the Dunraven off Shaab Mahmoud, the Kingston on Shag Rock, Ras Mohammed with the Shark Reef and Yolanda walls and Anemone City, the coral gardens of Shaab El Erg and Gotta Abu Ramada, and morays and Napoleon wrasse on Careless Reef. The operator asks for 20 dives.

January 2028
1 departure

Prices and availability can change. Get in touch and we'll confirm current dates and pricing.

Included in Price

Cabin with air conditioning and en-suite bathroom, 7 nights
Full board, water, tea, coffee, juices and soft drinks
3–4 dives a day, 2–3 on the last day
Dive guides on board
Tanks and weights
Nitrox 29–32%
Marine park fees
Port fees
Reef tax
Fuel surcharge
Route supplements
Boat and diving permits
Airport transfers both ways — Hurghada from Sahl Hasheesh to El Gouna, Port Ghalib to Marsa Shagra
Meet and assist by the operator's representative at the airport
Lost luggage assistance
Towels and bathrobe
Wi-Fi

Not Included

Flights
Egyptian visa
Equipment rental
Alcohol, Nespresso capsules and sparkling water
Crew gratuities
Insurance — diving cover and trip cancellation
Supplements for upper deck cabins and the suite

Optional extras

Egyptian visa — the only item the operator offers to add at booking — 35 €
Crew gratuities. The operator recommends 100 € per guest: 75 € for the crew and 25 € for the dive guides. This is a recommendation, not a compulsory charge — the amount, and whether to give it at all, is up to the guest — 100 € per person
D.E.C.O. International card, bought on board: it covers the first hyperbaric chamber treatment after a diving incident and is valid for two weeks from issue. The operator does not sell full insurance and advises you to arrange your own — 7 €
Equipment rental — the operator publishes no prices; order no later than two weeks before departure
SSI courses on board, nitrox included — the operator publishes no prices
Alcohol, Nespresso capsules, sparkling water
Sun deck cabin — the supplement is already inside the price of a berth in that category — 75 € per person per trip
Suite — the supplement is already inside the price of a berth in that category — 300 € per cabin per trip
Single occupancy: the cabin is given over to one guest — +80% on the berth price
Children aged 0–6 share a cabin with their parents free of charge, 6–10 pay 50% in a separate cabin, over 10 pay full price

Extras are shown per person and are paid on board.

SS Glorious Miss Nouran

from 999 EUR / 7 nights

Estimated wait time — 24 hours

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