Jul 2010
I have just returned from diving the Northern Red Sea aboard Royal Evolution 9-16 July. I wish to pass my comments onto you and others to acknowledge the great time I enjoyed. The boat itself was comfortable, always clean and I wish to make special mention of the fantastic crew who looked after us at all times. Unfortunately the weather was very windy and we didn't manage to dive all the wrecks as planned. The food and the housekeeping was excellent and all crew were extremely helpful in helping us kit-up before the dive and de-kit afterwards. We are not used to this in the UK but this was a nice personal touch onboard the Royal Evolution. Both guides gave the best safety briefings I have ever seen and throughout the week always kept us informed, and entertained, which only added to our very enjoyable week. I would highly recommend Royal Evolution and hope to visit again one day. Richard

Apr 2010
Big Thanks to the complete crew of Royal Evolution for an amazing trip deep south (15. April 1010). This was my second time on Royal Evolution and if anything it has become better. The diving was amazing with Hammerheards (including schools) on lots of dives in the South, and also at the classic sites like Angarosh and Shaab Rumi. Lots of Greys close up, Silkys etc Big thanks to the crew (all doing a great job) and to Ahmed for his continued great enthusiasm in finding Hammers, I will never forget the way you point them out under water. I will be back Till

Feb 2010
Just a short and belated note to say thank you for a great trip in February. I have nothing but praise for the ship, the guides, the chef and the rest of the crew. The other guests also helped make this a pleasurable and memorable trip. The diving was great and I appreciated the way the guides accepted my personal diving limitations. Anon

Feb 2010
Many thanks to Ahmed, Jose and crew for a great trip to the Sudan. Some very special diving with lots of Hammerheads, and the crew looked after all our needs very well. This was my second trip down South on Royal Evolution and it gets even better each time. We look forward to our next trip later in the year when we hope to see mantas galore - you have set the bar very high! Again very many thanks, keep up the good work. Anon.

Feb 2010
Just a note to say thank you to MV Royal Evolution's guides and crew for my trip in February 2010. This was an exceptionally well run ship and dive operation. Senior Guide Ahmed set an excellent example for others to follow, providing us all with interesting information on every dive site and practical reminders on the health and safety aspects appropriate to safe diving from a live-aboard. Guide Jose produced an excellent video of the trip, which will bring back memories of a great two week experience in the Sudanese Red Sea. Finally, as a somewhat antique diver, I was impressed that the guides took this into account in a low- key but thorough way. Especially when I was fining /steaming into a current !! 40 dives on the trip. How's that then ?? Thanks again and best wishes to you all. David A

Aug 2009
John Bantin from Diver magazine recently visited Sudan to check out Royal Evolution, download the pdf and read about how he got on.

May 2009
Royal Evolution is a really nice 39m dive boat, licensed to cruise to Sudanese waters giving access to some fantastic southerly dive sites. Very luxurious, 3 excellent dive guides with their own specialities of video, crittur spotting and a shark nut. Very good food including fresh barracuda! Our main impression of these southerly sites were the sheer quantity of fish both large and small, lots of sharks including a large school of hammerheads and a Tiger shark. Pristine corals both hard and soft as well as a lot of stinging hydroids, perhaps it was the season! We dived the Umbria with all its bombs and Jacques Cousteau's underwater living experiment Conshelf, both fascinating pieces of history. We felt it was a privilege to dive such unfrequented waters and to see the Red Sea as it was probably 50 years ago. We covered 1,00 miles on a really lovely boat and didn't see another diver for 9 days. Truly remote and out of touch. Anon.

Apr 2009
We had an absolutely fantastic trip in April, visiting the deep south of Sudan for what has to be some of the best diving we've ever done. The quality of the corals was amazing, as was the sheer quantity of fish life. We saw tiger sharks, silkies, plenty of grey reef, and even a 30 strong school of hammerheads who swam to within five metres of us. Add to that: huge tuna, massive pods of dolphins, a playful manta, and even a juvenile pilot whale, and you get some idea of how good this was. Both the Evolution boat and staff were top quality, and the dive guides went out of their way to get the best variety of sites, some of which they'd never even dived before. All in all, this was a real adventure for both of us and one we'd heartily recommend to anyone who wants to see what the real Red Sea is like, on probably its best liveaboard boat. Anon

Apr 2009
Deep South Trip 9/4 'the one with the stingy things' After more than 20 years since my first dive in the red sea it still keeps delivering and although I now dive further South than I used to, this trip exceeded my expectations. The coral was stunning with prolific reef life and superimposed on it all were some great pelagic sightings. Tigers, Silkys, Whitetips and glimpses of a Thresher and Silvertip plus prolonged close up action with Greys that had Simon wondering how to get it all on a dvd and a big school of Hammerheads that had Ahmed and Hesham high fiveing whilst the school came around for more passes! There was also a Manta for a lucky few and it would be rude not to mention the pod of dolphins (sea swine?) that came in to have a look and the pilot whales at breakfast. I could go on but hey life's too short - so thanks to everyone, crew, fellow guests and Shaun the Sheep, for a great trip, it's a great boat and it was great to meet you all, enjoy your diving and keep looking out in the blue! Jon

May 2008
John Bantin from Diver magazine recently visited Sudan to check out Royal Evolution, download the pdf and read about how he got on.

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