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hob nobby

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PostSubject: Red Sea June 2009   Red Sea June 2009 EmptyMon Jun 29, 2009 6:59 pm

farao Hi We're back.

Got to hotel, checked in, walked around, found dive centre, had some tea.... all was good.

Day two Emma goes to chat with Dive Centre manager, the normal questions relating to , dive leader experience, children on boats, dive sites and prices. All is good, no problem kids come for free, no kit hire charges if we dive a package. All sounds great, wait to report back to steve, (who is being kidnapped by the girls and unable to leave the waterslides). Sat at pool following day get hit by the sales man, who we politely tell to shuv it when he tries to charge us £80 each for each child, then the earwigging nondivivng nosey parker says dont dove with them my mate says they are crap!!!!!!!!!!After a quandry and a chat with a Turkish BSAC diver from Blackpool we all agree they have theire licences and insurances, its a good hotel, we will be fine, so i go and book 3 days boat diving.

Next day, we sit on the boat with Akmed DM and Susha who will follow at the rear and Chris a fellow AOWD, with 16 dives to his name, and listen to the breifing. Fingers crossed for the Mantas and the sharks ( yeh!!!!whatever). This was Temple reef. How disapointing, we seemed to drop into an area of blue with poor visibility, there wasnt much fish around and the corals were bashed to hell, what were still alive, it was a far cry from the diving in Hurghada last year. We dropped to about 22m and got about 25 mins, i was quite heavy on the air again, so looking back in my logs from last year remember the videograher suggesting i dropped additional weights.

Second dive was a reef called middle garden, this dive was A JOKE!!!!! :clown:

we had Akmed up front and SUsha at the rear, followd by chris, a russian dad and son, who may as well have dived in seperate groups they were so far away from each other, a couple with 8 dives doing their Advanced, one experienced diver and his wife who had just qualified the previois day, she had a leaking octopuss, once of the advanced students thought he'd be ok on 150 bar and the DM carrys half a breeze block braying his tank every 30 seconds saying look at me, come up, go down, hold hands, all at least 10m away from the reef. After we found space in the water inbetween the snorklers to make an entry.We dropped eventually to around 18m. Steve and i decided to stay right at the back out of the way, practice with camera, and do our own thing. Again we were dosapointed with the fish and corals, infact the whole day. Now for the saety stop, tink you would have been appaulled. the DM made them all hold onto each other at which they all sank to 8m and basically did the safety stop there!!!! Steve and i hovered lovely at 4.5m using our computers and made a perfect ascent. Tink i think you would have been proud. Considering the uproar under the water, i did loads better with my air.

Next day, get to the harbour, where another DM takes me and steve to one side and says they cant get you on a boat, the owner is taking you to sharks bay, for a shore dive, and its not a good site, you will be disapointed and what about the girls?. We complain, abandon the day and return to the dive centre where the manager greats us nearly in tears telling us how sorry he is that we are being messed around and that he is trying to leave as its not a divivng centre, its allabout big bucks from snorkling trips. he gave us a free dive that afternoon on the house reef, a wall dropping to about 60m. that was a good dive, i matched steves air consumption, saw all the usual suspects and some magnificent fans. The manager brought his wife nto the resort to look after Georgia and Maisie for us.

the next two days were off Tiran Island and Ras Mohammed, Jack fish Alley, WOW. the dive guides got the message, we had nice relaxed dives, we did four drift dives, they are brilliant, we swam through a cave where i thought i may start to poop my self but what was at the entrance beckoninhg me in like a guardian angel????????????? HAwksbill turtle, I love you she was so beautiful, and very humbling. I loved the cave! , Steves got a fab picture, we thinks papa will be proud. The cave was amazing, as the light penetrates throUgh little holes in the reef. Was interesting on the first drift dive, we went the opposite way to what the skipper had anticipated and had at leat 10 mins waititng for the boat to spot us, no one had an SMB!!!!!! A welsh chap on nitrox had entered at the same time as us and dropped deeper and the current took him the other way, We spent an hour looking for him after we surfaced!!!!, he had eventually been picked up by another boat.

The last day was RAS BOB and Woodhouse Reef, again drift dives and they were truely amazing, we got 40 mins and a depth of about 24m on the first dive from 190 bar so thats pretty good for me. Its all about whats down there though, i had a play with the canera on the last dive and can see why everyone gets the bug for the perfect shot. I tried some pictures but they are rubbish really i want to concentrate on looking at it with my eyes not through a lens. The DM had his SMB today and it was used.


So all in all we got 7 dives for the price of 6.

We learned loads from the first two dives so they were not wasted, we realised how dry suits and uk divivng in poor vis give you so much more experience, that we were actually more skilled than most of the other tourist divers, who hadnt even realised people dive in the uk and that doing your advanced at some of the dive centres at these resports is a bit like getting a fake passport, they rush you through, and there is something to be said for taking your own gear. We are so happy we decided to stick with Proscuba to do our advanced, you just cant buy the knowledge you lot have collectively. we got to grips with our computers (Mares Puk) and that we will be back to Egypt some point - i will see a shark at some point. Ohh and Fin ladders and fins not so good if you dont have footballers legs and one weedy crew member trying to lisft you out of the swell, i obviosly wiegh more than they think, it needed two!!!!!!!!

Other points to note, we were never asked to do a check dive or a skill review at any point!!!!!! steve thinks he saw a reef shark whilst snorkling, i caught a glimpse but it wasnt enough to be definate, a the girls did us proud snorkling off the boat in open water. We also got a great giude book with the Sinai Dive sites listed and were used for the dive breifings, feel free to borrow it any of you any time.

The diving centre we used was the Magic Dive Centre based at the Hauza Hotel, i must stress i had no issue with any of the staff just the owner, ( who is not a diver) and some of the crew, who were very good at grabbing you inflator as you entered the water and inflating you till you were fully squeezed and just wasting the air. The manager, has asked us to contact him directly when we are in Egypt again and that he will organise our diving and accomodation with Sinai Divers for us but were thinking livaboard and no kids.....anyone else want to commit to something for next year?????????????

it will be lovely to see you all again

two happy bunnies ( well at least until we had to get up for work this morning)

Pictures may or may not follow, being the IT numpties that we are!!!! jocolor

LOL Em and Steve ( hob Nobbies) flower sorry its a bit long winded!!
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PostSubject: Re: Red Sea June 2009   Red Sea June 2009 EmptyMon Jun 29, 2009 7:10 pm

Hi,
Great review... really interesting! Can't wait to see your pics! x
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PostSubject: Re: Red Sea June 2009   Red Sea June 2009 EmptyMon Jun 29, 2009 9:16 pm

hob nobby wrote:
farao Hi We're back.

Got to hotel, checked in, walked around, found dive centre, had some tea.... all was good.

Day two Emma goes to chat with Dive Centre manager, the normal questions relating to , dive leader experience, children on boats, dive sites and prices. All is good, no problem kids come for free, no kit hire charges if we dive a package. All sounds great, wait to report back to steve, (who is being kidnapped by the girls and unable to leave the waterslides). Sat at pool following day get hit by the sales man, who we politely tell to shuv it when he tries to charge us £80 each for each child, then the earwigging nondivivng nosey parker says dont dove with them my mate says they are crap!!!!!!!!!!After a quandry and a chat with a Turkish BSAC diver from Blackpool we all agree they have theire licences and insurances, its a good hotel, we will be fine, so i go and book 3 days boat diving.

Next day, we sit on the boat with Akmed DM and Susha who will follow at the rear and Chris a fellow AOWD, with 16 dives to his name, and listen to the breifing. Fingers crossed for the Mantas and the sharks ( yeh!!!!whatever). This was Temple reef. How disapointing, we seemed to drop into an area of blue with poor visibility, there wasnt much fish around and the corals were bashed to hell, what were still alive, it was a far cry from the diving in Hurghada last year. We dropped to about 22m and got about 25 mins, i was quite heavy on the air again, so looking back in my logs from last year remember the videograher suggesting i dropped additional weights.

Second dive was a reef called middle garden, this dive was A JOKE!!!!! :clown:

we had Akmed up front and SUsha at the rear, followd by chris, a russian dad and son, who may as well have dived in seperate groups they were so far away from each other, a couple with 8 dives doing their Advanced, one experienced diver and his wife who had just qualified the previois day, she had a leaking octopuss, once of the advanced students thought he'd be ok on 150 bar and the DM carrys half a breeze block braying his tank every 30 seconds saying look at me, come up, go down, hold hands, all at least 10m away from the reef. After we found space in the water inbetween the snorklers to make an entry.We dropped eventually to around 18m. Steve and i decided to stay right at the back out of the way, practice with camera, and do our own thing. Again we were dosapointed with the fish and corals, infact the whole day. Now for the saety stop, tink you would have been appaulled. the DM made them all hold onto each other at which they all sank to 8m and basically did the safety stop there!!!! Steve and i hovered lovely at 4.5m using our computers and made a perfect ascent. Tink i think you would have been proud. Considering the uproar under the water, i did loads better with my air.

Next day, get to the harbour, where another DM takes me and steve to one side and says they cant get you on a boat, the owner is taking you to sharks bay, for a shore dive, and its not a good site, you will be disapointed and what about the girls?. We complain, abandon the day and return to the dive centre where the manager greats us nearly in tears telling us how sorry he is that we are being messed around and that he is trying to leave as its not a divivng centre, its allabout big bucks from snorkling trips. he gave us a free dive that afternoon on the house reef, a wall dropping to about 60m. that was a good dive, i matched steves air consumption, saw all the usual suspects and some magnificent fans. The manager brought his wife nto the resort to look after Georgia and Maisie for us.

the next two days were off Tiran Island and Ras Mohammed, Jack fish Alley, WOW. the dive guides got the message, we had nice relaxed dives, we did four drift dives, they are brilliant, we swam through a cave where i thought i may start to poop my self but what was at the entrance beckoninhg me in like a guardian angel????????????? HAwksbill turtle, I love you she was so beautiful, and very humbling. I loved the cave! , Steves got a fab picture, we thinks papa will be proud. The cave was amazing, as the light penetrates throUgh little holes in the reef. Was interesting on the first drift dive, we went the opposite way to what the skipper had anticipated and had at leat 10 mins waititng for the boat to spot us, no one had an SMB!!!!!! A welsh chap on nitrox had entered at the same time as us and dropped deeper and the current took him the other way, We spent an hour looking for him after we surfaced!!!!, he had eventually been picked up by another boat.

The last day was RAS BOB and Woodhouse Reef, again drift dives and they were truely amazing, we got 40 mins and a depth of about 24m on the first dive from 190 bar so thats pretty good for me. Its all about whats down there though, i had a play with the canera on the last dive and can see why everyone gets the bug for the perfect shot. I tried some pictures but they are rubbish really i want to concentrate on looking at it with my eyes not through a lens. The DM had his SMB today and it was used.


So all in all we got 7 dives for the price of 6.

We learned loads from the first two dives so they were not wasted, we realised how dry suits and uk divivng in poor vis give you so much more experience, that we were actually more skilled than most of the other tourist divers, who hadnt even realised people dive in the uk and that doing your advanced at some of the dive centres at these resports is a bit like getting a fake passport, they rush you through, and there is something to be said for taking your own gear. We are so happy we decided to stick with Proscuba to do our advanced, you just cant buy the knowledge you lot have collectively. we got to grips with our computers (Mares Puk) and that we will be back to Egypt some point - i will see a shark at some point. Ohh and Fin ladders and fins not so good if you dont have footballers legs and one weedy crew member trying to lisft you out of the swell, i obviosly wiegh more than they think, it needed two!!!!!!!!

Other points to note, we were never asked to do a check dive or a skill review at any point!!!!!! steve thinks he saw a reef shark whilst snorkling, i caught a glimpse but it wasnt enough to be definate, a the girls did us proud snorkling off the boat in open water. We also got a great giude book with the Sinai Dive sites listed and were used for the dive breifings, feel free to borrow it any of you any time.

The diving centre we used was the Magic Dive Centre based at the Hauza Hotel, i must stress i had no issue with any of the staff just the owner, ( who is not a diver) and some of the crew, who were very good at grabbing you inflator as you entered the water and inflating you till you were fully squeezed and just wasting the air. The manager, has asked us to contact him directly when we are in Egypt again and that he will organise our diving and accomodation with Sinai Divers for us but were thinking livaboard and no kids.....anyone else want to commit to something for next year?????????????

it will be lovely to see you all again

two happy bunnies ( well at least until we had to get up for work this morning)

Pictures may or may not follow, being the IT numpties that we are!!!! jocolor

LOL Em and Steve ( hob Nobbies) flower sorry its a bit long winded!!











Sounds like you had a really nice time
It will be nice to catch up sometime soon
Im going to blue lagoon on tues (so ive being told ) if I can find it
Thanks for the nice comments on the menorca photos
Id like to do a liveaboard next year with you all
xxx
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