Contact Information

For any questions or inquiries you have about the red sea shark project you can use this contact form.

If you intend to send us completed sighting log(s), please use this link. The file names of these logs should include your name and the date your safari started.

To upload shark images online, please use the image upload form.

For hardcopies of large images or video files, use the following Egyptian adress:

Elke Bojanowski
Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation association.
Hurghada New Marina
El Sakkala - Building B2
Hurghada- Red Sea- Egypt
P.O. Box 144 Hurghada- Red Sea- Egypt.

If you don't get an answer immediately, please be patient; it might be due to the fact that there is no or no reliable internet connection out at sea; or that snail-mail is not exactly quick in this region...

But any contribution is greatly appreciated!

Dr. Elke Bojanowski

After completing my PhD thesis on dolphin behaviour and communication, I returned to the Red Sea in April 2004. For the next six years I worked full-time on liveaboards in the Egyptian Red sea as a diveguide and biologist. It was during this time that I had my first encounters with oceanic whitetip sharks (Carcharhinus longimanus) at Elphinstone. These incidents and continuing regular encounters were the inspiration to use photo-identification techniques (familiar to me from dolphin research) to discover more about this shark species in the Red Sea.

At the end of 2004, I initiated the longimanus-project which publicly launched with a website in summer 2005. Over the following five years I have been collecting more than 19,000 images and videos of Oceanic Whitetips in the Egyptian Red Sea and was able to identify more than 500 individuals.

In June 2010 I joined forces with HEPCA (Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association) to develop and manage a comprehensive Red Sea Shark Research Project.

I will continue to spend her field season working with the dive operator blue o two conducting shark weeks (which we developed in 2008). This will allow me to continue to collect valuable data for the project while also informing divers onboard about different aspects of shark biology, species identification, research and conservation.

Elke