Qype: Poseidon Diving in cairo

cairo

I’ve always thought of diving as a bit of a lazy sport. I prefer more active things rather than just floating around looking at fish. Others rave about it though and as we had decided to lay up in Dahab for a few weeks, it presented as a more interesting option than lying on the beach and drinking beer. (still plenty of time for that though.)

We checked out heaps of the local dive centers. Imagine your most enthusiastic Egyptian tout crossed with your over sexed ski instructor and you can understand the kind of poeple that work there.

Poseidon presented as a more relaxed and proffesional alternative. The management were clearly very experienced, and the buisness was well established, but our instructor was taking on a group for the first time. I work as an outdoor instructor myself sometimes and I really didn’t mind at all this guys inexperience. His training was very recent and up to date and his enthusiasm for us to do well and enjoy ourselves would be hard to compete with.

So for four days we had this guy teaching just the two of us. All the diving was shore based to keep costs to an absoloute minimum. It was very cheap – I won’t say how much becuase they wouldn’t like it – but like anything in Egypt – You’ve got to haggle!!

The Red Sea is amazing. I’ve dived or snorkelled all over but I think the fish life here is the best I’ve seen – better than The Great Barrier Reef. (The coral there is much better but..)

The course too was just so much fun. Our isntructor had a great sense of humour – a highlight was playiing Matrix fights under water. You take your flippers off and do Kung fu moves in really slow motion, I promise it’s more fun than it might sound and I’m chuckling about it as I write this.

He was really safe though. At one point my then girlfriend freaked out and he calmly took her back to the surface and kept communicating with me as he took her up.

If you are cotemplating a dive trip to Egypt then I would definately go for Dahab and Poseidon over going to Sharm al Shek and staying in a resort up there. Dahab’s way more fun and much, much cheaper.

Check out my review of Poseidon Diving – I am gotiges7 – on Qype