By Sameh Sokar
For more than twenty years, the Red Sea has been my classroom, my workplace, and the place I feel most at home. I’ve spent thousands of hours underwater teaching, exploring, guiding divers through their CCR journeys, and supporting others through some of the most challenging dives of their careers. But every so often, an opportunity comes along that stands apart from the rest.
Our CCR Reefs, Wrecks & Canyons Expedition, running 2-13 May 2026, is one of those opportunities.
This is not a recreational itinerary with a CCR option added on – this is a Tec CCR-only expedition built from the ground up for mixed gas and advanced mixed gas divers who want long bottom times, proper decompression dives, and access to sites few divers get the time or conditions to explore properly.
Why This Trip? Why Now?
The Red Sea offers some of the best CCR diving in the world with stable water temperatures, exceptional visibility, dramatic topography, and wrecks with real history behind them. But most trips don’t give CCR divers the time they need to do these sites justice.
This expedition gives us exactly that: 12 days and 11 nights, with no rush, no pressure, and no squeezing CCR teams into a recreational timetable. We dive when the conditions are right, we adjust the plan based on the environment, and every dive is built with technical divers in mind.
What to Expect
Long, meaningful dives.
On our last CCR expedition, most teams logged between 4–5 hour dives on the deeper wrecks, managing 45–60 minutes of bottom time on sites such as the Al-Qamar (85 m) and the Gulf Fleet (103 m). Expect decompression lines and to offload deep bailouts and some decompression gases as you shallow up.
A CCR-focused team.
Everyone onboard is diving CCR with standard gases, trimix analyzers, DPVs, a diver lift, and we’ll be offering the same five-star surface support you’re used to with Scuba Seekers and the former MV Legends.
High-level support.
I’m personally leading the trip and will guide you along the most interesting profiles on a world-class itinerary which includes site options* such as:
- Aida and Numidia shipwrecks
- Thomas Canyon
- Al-Qamar-Al-Saudi
- Lara Wreck
- the Deep Walls of Ras Mohammed
- the Gulf Fleet
- Rosalie Moller
- Thistlegorm
*exact itinerary based on a mix of group preferences and allowable weather conditions
The Marselia Star
This expedition takes place on the Marselia Star, our newly acquired, 40m, steel-hull liveaboard vessel that was designed for serious diving with its large dive deck, excellent stability, and comfortable accommodation.
Who This Trip Is For
Minimum certification: Mixed Gas CCR (60 m)*
Advanced Mixed Gas divers (100 m+) are welcome.
*If you are an air diluent/deco (30m or 40m) or helitrox (45m) diver and are looking to build hours and experience and would like to join a CCR only trip, you are welcome, but please note that you will be unable to dive when we dive Al-Qamar-Al-Saudi, as its shallowest point is 65m and there is no reef around that area.
Final Thoughts
CCR diving demands discipline, planning, and teamwork. This expedition is built around those principles.
For full information and to secure your spot, email info@mvlegends.com.