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We are a month early with this newsletter, but with so much to tell you, we couldn’t wait any longer! As the water reaches a pleasant 24ºC Sharm has once again got itself lined up for an amazing summer......Mantas are a daily sighting already, so now let’s hope the whale sharks see this as their cue...
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WHY LIMIT YOURSELF?
Why settle for a standard PADI IDC, when we offer potential PADI Pro’s IDC – Unlimited, an outstanding instructor package, ensuring you to leave Sharm with far more than the average newly qualified open water instructor?
You will be trained and tutored to the highest standards in preparation for the PADI Instructor Exams, which are taken in resort.
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Here’s where the ‘Unlimited’ part comes in - included in the price are two further elements to ensure you make the most of your newly earned professional status.
After becoming a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, you then choose 5 specialties you want to teach, and our course director will take you through them via the Course Director Taught route, meaning cheaper application fees and once you have 25 certifications, application can be made immediately to PADI for Master Scuba Diver Trainer status!
As if that wasn’t enough, as a new Open Water Scuba Instructor, you will receive free Course Director route training for specialties FOR LIFE! As long as visits are planned around a PADI IDC taking place, you pay for the diving, Red Sea Diving College pay for the training! (excl certification fees)
COME AND JOIN US ON THE NEXT PADI IDC IN JUNE OR SEPTEMBER!!!
Contact us for more information about this amazing package info@redseacollege.com |
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February 2009 |
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September 2009 |
November 2009 |
| IDC Prep |
12 Feb |
09 Apr |
04 Jun |
03 Sept |
26 Nov |
AI |
15 Feb |
12 Apr |
07 Jun |
06 Sept |
29 Nov |
OWSI |
18 Feb |
15 Apr |
10 Jun |
09 Sept |
02 Dec |
EFRI |
22 Feb |
19 Apr |
14 Jun |
13 Sept |
06 Dec |
IE |
24 & 25 Feb |
21 & 22 Apr |
16 & 17 Jun |
15 & 16 Sept |
08 & 09 Dec |
SPECIALTIES |
26 Feb |
23 Apr |
18 Jun |
17 Sept |
10 Dec |
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WANT TO GO PRO IN TABA? NOW YOU CAN!
If you want to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor in the peace, quiet and relaxation that is synonymous with Taba? Then contact us now to enrol on the first PADI IDC being run there, starting 7th June! (If you can’t make June, please feel free to contact us for details of all forthcoming dates!!)
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GREAT WHITE LIES
We would like to apologise for our recent April Fools joke that had many of you excited, shocked or scared! No great white shark was seen, it was all a fib and we are sorry (but still laughing just a little bit)!
On the morning of 1st April, we sent news via email & Facebook that a great white shark had been spotted in Ras Mohammed a few days previously.
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To lend some weight to the claim, there was a (rather dubious) picture, coupled with quotes from a long time and well known dive guide as well as the fictitious guest who apparently took the picture – Mr D Roopey.
Just to add insult to injury, a special email address was set up for inquiries, which many of you used to add comments.
Don’t think you were the only one who fell for it….the amount of responses surprised everyone, as the emails flooded in with comments ranging from congratulations to saying they were glad it was a joke as the Red Sea would have been off their holiday list otherwise.
The next day, to put everyone out of their misery, a dedicated web page appeared, which informed any visitors that it was indeed a wind up - a site which amazingly attracted more that 1000 visits in the first 3 hours. On the plus side, because we felt so guilty, the page included a special diving offer for all of those who believed it!
Red Sea Diving College thanks everyone for their participation, and a special mention to our training manager who still believed it was true on the 4th April!! |
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RED SEA DIVING COLLEGE’S FIRST FACELIFT – ON THE WEBSITE!
After months of blood sweat and tears, the new Red Sea Diving College website is all up and running, with loads more extra content, so log on and have a look…
So what is so special? Presented in a much more user friendly layout, the navigation is much easier and you can get the info you want within a few clicks.
All the course information has been updated into an easy to read format with simple explanations.
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For those of you who can’t wait until you get here to find out dive site info, we’ve created an active dive map of the area.
Click on any site and you will find info on topography, currents and likely encounters.
Whether you want to check your log book or see what you’ve missed, it’s a great tool.
PS: till know we only updated the English part of our website. French and Russian will follow soon. |
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A FULL DAY DIVING AND STILL BACK FOR A SNOOZE AT LUNCHTIME?
We, at Red Sea Diving College, are seeing more and more families diving with us, and with all the activities available in Sharm, it’s hard to have your cake and eat it. Well. Load your plate up because we have a solution…..
From this month, Red Sea Diving College is offering a morning boat with a fixed schedule that offers two guided dives with a return to the jetty at 1.30pm. |
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| Perfect for satisfying the divers in the family with plenty of time left to relax by the pool! For those who prefer local diving but want more, the boat goes back out for another afternoon dive before returning around 4pm.
The sites have been chosen for their topography and lack of divers at certain times, so not only do you get to visit sites rarely done on a normal local day, you should have no issues with boat loads of other divers. |
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VIP One – LIMITED SPACES LEFT
Fancy a week of constant non-stop diving onboard our luxury live aboard? Thought it always worked out expensive? Then think again, for sailings leaving on 21st June and 5th July you can enjoy the best the summer has to offer for an unbelievable €685. Spaces are limited, so contact us for further information.
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PURE MOVES ON
April has been a very busy time for Tek and Rebreather diving at the Red Sea Diving College, with guests coming from all over, even Australia! The training department has been rushed off their feet and Chris Armstrong has joined them as a CCR instructor.
Interested in taking the first steps to bubble-less diving? Get - €250 off your Rebreather course
For a limited time, we are offering the Rebreather Air Diluent Course at a reduced price of only €700 instead of €950! Contact us for further details of this offer.
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All this talk of Tek got you interested in taking your diving a step further? Here’s the new course schedule.
(Contact us if you don’t see what you are interested in and we’ll try to organize it!)
info@redseacollege.com
- 11th/15-16th of May : TDI/IANTD CCR Normoxic Diver/Instructor
- 14th/16th of June : SDI Solo Diving Diver/Instructor
- 17th/19th of June : TDI Cavern Diver/Instructor (OC or CCR)
- 3rd/7th of July : IANTD/TDI Normoxic Diver/Instructor
- 8th/10th of July : TDI Cavern Diver/Instructor (OC or CCR)
- 27th/3rd of July : TDI CCR Diver MEGALODON
- 3rd/5th of August : IANTD/TDI CCR Normoxic Diver |
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INVITATION TO OUR CRITTER PARTY!
Red Sea Diving College is hosting a most unusual event at the moment, and everyone is invited – a Critter Party!
Since February, there has been more and more weird and wonderful (and rare!) species showing their sometimes ugly faces as we train and guide people in the bay in front of Red Sea Diving College. It started with a robust ghost pipefish and an ornate ghost pipefish. The next to arrive was a pigmy pipe horse (seriously, it exists!) and the latest is the seahorses.
If you want a real chance to see some of these awesome creatures then book in for some bay diving on your next trip…..just be warned, the venue does change when you least expect it!
Congratulations!
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CONGRATULATIONS! (part 1)
Congratulations to Simon, Sergey, Nick, John and Roman on completing their Instructor Course with Red Sea Diving College in April. Welcome to the world of diving for a living! Well done everybody.
Become an instructor yourself!
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CONGRATULATIONS! (part 2)
On another happy note, congratulations to Pierre and Jang from Red Sea Waterworld in Taba on their recent marriage.
The story is more suited to a romance novel than the life of a dive guide, but that’s what happened to these two staff from Red Sea Watreworld Taba.
Pierre and Jang met 5 years ago in Thailand, whilst Pierre was doing his Divemaster course and Jang was enjoying a well deserved holiday. But it turned into a life changing trip for both of them and Pierre spent his time between France and Thailand until he landed a job in Red Sea Waterworld in Taba. Jang joined him a year later and they finally married a year after submitting the paperwork (well, we are in Egypt)! Best Wishes to them both from all of us. |
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LIDS 29-30th March
It was great to see so many people at the dive show, which given the doom and gloom we hear about out here, we thought would be quiet. However, College guests never let us down and there were plenty of you to keep us amused! Thanks for coming and we’ll see you here soon.
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| See many of you soon at Red Sea Diving College, VIP One or Red Sea Waterworld! |
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