Course overview

Earn your first scuba licence in the warm, glass-clear water of the Gulf of Aqaba, where 20-30m visibility makes Sharm El Sheikh one of the easiest places on Earth to learn. Your training dives unfold over the coral gardens of Near Garden and Ras Katy, with clownfish, butterflyfish and the occasional turtle drifting past. With pre-trip eLearning done at home, most beginners are certified to 18m in just three to four days.

What you’ll learn

• Assembling, checking and wearing scuba equipment
• Clearing a flooded mask and recovering a lost regulator
• Achieving neutral buoyancy and trim
• Buddy communication and air-sharing
• Five-point ascents and safe dive planning

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10
• Comfortable in water
• Medically fit to dive

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
   Theory and confined water

   Knowledge review then first confined-water skills and your first shallow open-water dive.
2. Day2
   Swim test and skills

   200m swim and float check, more confined-water sessions and a reef training dive.
3. Day3
   Certification dives

   Final open-water dives demonstrating mastered skills, then certification.

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