Scuba diving in Egypt’s southern Red Sea is incredible with kaleidoscopic coral, all sorts of weird and wonderful critters, and big stuff that will enable you to tick a few things off your bucket list. With this world-class diving on your doorstep, you’ll want to get as much out of your dive holiday as possible with no barriers to adventure.
You don’t want to be the diver who listens to excited chatter about dive sites that are too deep for your certification level, or the one who ran out of bottom time just before the big stuff showed up.
Euro-Divers Egypt recommends two specialty courses that will really enhance your diving and enable you to get the most out of your time underwater: Deep Diver and Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver.
Let us know about your deep adventures in the comments below!
Deep Diver
After completing this course, you will be able to explore parts of dive sites deeper than 18 metres and visit sites that are out of bounds to those who are not trained in deep diving. You will be certified to dive to a maximum depth of 40 metres, learn to recognize and deal with signs of narcosis, manage gas supply at depth and plan deep dives safely. The 4 course dives can be completed in 2 days and, to make it easier during your holiday, you can study at home with eLearning for the theory which takes 2-4 hours.
Prerequisites – Certified to PADI Adventure Diver or equivalent and be at least 15 years old.
Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
Learn to dive with Nitrox in your tank instead of regular air and take advantage of the benefits it offers. At the very start of diver training we learn that nitrogen is the ‘bad’ gas, the one that causes narcosis and decompression sickness.
Since Nitrox has less nitrogen in it, you can extend your no decompression dive time to stay at depth for longer than divers using regular air, complete multiple dives in a day and experience less fatigue – all great things on a diving holiday!
The course takes just 2 hours and there are no compulsory dives. Make use of the eLearning facility and study before you arrive, then it’s just the practical aspects to cover such as analysing your tank, setting your computer for diving with nitrox and filling out an Enriched Air Log with your instructor at Euro-Divers.
Prerequisites – Certified to PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent and be at least 12 years old.
Diving holidays are too short for barriers to adventure!
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
