Here at Euro-Divers Egypt we place a great importance on ensuring our diving is both sustainable and responsible, with team training, courses for divers, and taking part in worldwide and local initiatives.
Locally, here in Egypt, we are fortunate to share the reefs around Hurghada and El Quseir with several groups of dolphins, mainly the Indo Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Aduncus). The Euro-Divers dive centres here have extensive information regarding these wild animals and both snorkellers and divers receive a special dolphin briefing. Amongst other important information is identification, how to recognise when a dolphin is asleep or wants to play, and how to behave when approached by them.
Throughout Euro-Divers Worldwide, we operate a ‘no touch’ policy, collecting of marine life as souvenirs and the feeding of fish are prohibited. Divers are asked to ensure their hoses and gauges are secured properly and to maintain good buoyancy to avoid touching or kicking the reef.
There is a variety of courses for divers who are interested in marine conservation and biodiversity, as well as furthering their skills that will contribute to marine protection:
- Underwater Naturalist Specialty
- Fish Identification Specialty
- AWARE Shark Conservation Specialty and Whale Shark Awareness
- Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty
Worldwide initiatives that Euro-Divers is involved with include Green Fins and PADI Project Aware.
Green Fins provides diving and snorkelling operators with environmental standards to follow as well as posters and signs for reminding all who venture into the ocean of their responsibilities to the fragile marine environment – you’ll see these in our dive centres.
PADI Project Aware – Project Aware International Clean-Up Day is an annual event and the staff teams, along with guests at Euro-Divers join this worldwide community event in cleaning up local beaches and reefs.
Being able to visit the marine habitats of our blue planet is a privilege and as such we have a duty to protect it and preserve it, not only for future generations, but for the natural inhabitants of the seas and oceans.
We look forward to showing you the amazing sites of the Southern Red Sea soon and, if nature is on our side, you can admire the fascinating dolphins and learn a bit more about them.
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.
