The Little Brother has a very high concentration of life in a much reduced area. The walls are covered literally with sponges, anemones and all sorts of soft corals alcyonarian in an astonishing multiplicity of colors and shapes. Of course you will find here plenty of fish. It is not unusual to see sharks: hammerheads, thresher sharks, greysharks, silvertip and whitetip reef sharks.

About 1 km north of the Little Brother the Big Brother is located. At the westside, in the middle of the island, is a lighthouse.
When it is not too windy, you can proceed to dive the wreck Numidia which lies upon the reef on the northern side of the island between 10 and 80 m. This 150 m long ship sunk 100 years ago and is now completely covered with both hard and soft corals and goronias. This is a fantastic view.
At the NW side of this island you will find the other wreck: the Aida. This 82 m long steam ship sunk 1957. The remaining pieces of the wreck are scattered all over the reef and just the back side of the hull can be found between 30 and 60 m. It is nicely overgrown and worth to visit.

The Elphinstone Reef is one of the most beautiful reefs in Egypt. The north and the south plateaus of this reef are alone worth to visit to Egypt. At the wall and the drop off you will find a lot of spectacular colourful soft corals and also black corals. Because of the remote location of the reef you can meet big fish. With luck you will find in this place hammerheads, grey sharks, barracudas and dolphins.