Learn to scuba dive in the Red Sea
How Learn to scuba dive in the Red Sea makes a difference
Environment
We re-use and then re-cycle all our plastic bottles and all left over food is fed to the local goats. We encourage reduced use of Air Con systems and ask you to switch them off when not there. We provide a cotton shopping bag to all our guests to reduce plastic bag use. These bags are also used by our team when shopping for groceries. We only clean rooms on request, no unnecessary washing. All watering of our garden is done with recycled water from the dive rinse pool. We use fish caught in deep sustainable waters only. We post environment advise in all our rooms of how to reduce your impact on the environment whilst you are here in Dahab.
We strive to ‘make a difference’ to the environment with our diving. With a MAX ratio of 4-1 divers to guide, means that we can control our divers and make sure they do no damage, dramatically reducing the impact of our divers on the reef.
All our instructors are aware of the importance of protecting the reef and they remove rubbish from underwater, if they see any. This doubles the effect as customers see us taking care of the environment and follow suit and show a good example by removing anything underwater that should not be there.
We believe you will come as a guest and leave as a better informed, more responsible, non coral bashing, and more environmentally aware diver.
Community
We employ Egyptian, Bedouin and Nubian workers as our full time team here. Local Bedouins run our dive cars, Camel Safaris and all the trips we do. We consider our Bedouin friends to be an extension of our family.
Our eldest daughter Nadia is very aware of how precious this environment is and as she is bi-lingual, is able to chat away to the local Bedouin kids about why it is wrong to fish, why not to throw rubbish in the sea etc and is very effective, if a bit fierce sometimes. This is the only way, via the kids, as the adults are too stuck in their ways to want to change. We ask help of the local kids with our annual pick up in September. We pick rubbish from the beach at every site we go to and from underwater.
We do presentations to the local schools about responsible behaviour towards the sea and hand out the Arabic version of the Project Aware brochure so that hopefully the message spreads even further.
Learn to scuba dive in the Red Sea
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