Brothers

The Brother Islands are the tops of two undersea mountains two-thirds of a mile apart, 50 nautical miles offshore near Quseir, 125 miles south of Ras Mohammed and 40 miles east of Port Ghalib, and are part of the Marine Park. Little Brother has many soft corals. The lighthouse on Big Brother was built by the British in 1883. Two shipwrecks, the Numidia and the Aida, lie off the northern end of Big Brother.

Big Brother Little Brother

There is wall diving along the entire perimeter of both islands, with a wide variety of pelagics.

wall diver with marker buoy wall

Cornetfish, Fistularia commersonii

cornetfish

Titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens

titan trigger

Napoleonfish, Cheilinus undulatus

divers and Napoleon wrasse Napoleon wrasse Napoleon wrasse videographer

Saddle grouper, Cephalopholis sexmaculata

saddle grouper

Grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos

divers and shark grey reef shark

Giant moray, Gymnothorax javanicus

moray eeel

Masked butterflyfish, Chaetodon semilarvatus

masked butterflyfish

Pseudanthias sp.

soft coral coral head soft coral and anthias sea fan wall wall

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