Course overview

PADI AWARE conservation courses help you understand and protect the marine environment, perfectly suited to Fujairah's reefs, which sit within a protected marine reserve at Dibba Rock. Combining marine-ecology knowledge with hands-on dives, you learn to dive responsibly, identify local species and contribute to reef protection in the Arabian Gulf.

What you’ll learn

• Understand coral reef ecology and the threats reefs face
• Dive with reef-friendly buoyancy and behaviour
• Identify common local species and their roles
• Participate in reef-conscious diving and data collection
• Apply conservation principles on every dive

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10
• Open to divers and (for some AWARE courses) non-divers
• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver for in-water components
• Interest in marine conservation

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Ecology & reef diving

   Cover reef ecology and conservation theory, then make two reef-friendly dives at the protected Dibba Rock reserve, identifying local species and practising responsible diving.

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