Scuba Diving

Scuba diving……This is a hobby I started ever since 2003. It was my first time to explore the treasures of the underwater life when I decided that this was not for me. Scuba diving was not an experience I want to try again. What’s wrong with cats, dogs, birds…etc? Why do I have to dive as deep as 30 meters in order to see fish, dolphins and sharks..? Well here is the answer…I discovered IT IS WORTH THE TRY!!

I pursued my hobby until it became a desire then finally now after 7 years it is a passion. A passion I cannot resist. It is a wondrous adventure that takes you far deeper than 20 or 30 meters. It takes you to where your thoughts can. The minute you enter the water you feel a connection between you and the sea. You feel your heart beats getting quicker, your mouth becomes watery as if you have just tasted the most delicious chocolate fudge.

Scuba diving needs patience and courage. It needs learning too. Learning is a very important step in SCUBA diving because if you do not learn you may jeopardize your own life. You must learn how to set your equipment, how to rapidly take them off, how to orderly enter and exit the water and how to communicate underwater. For me, underwater communication is the most important of them all. You can not speak underwater but you can definitely use sign language. But SCUBA sign language is different as it is universal and it does not change form one language to another.

We dive as a family; me, my brothers, my mum and my dad. I believe this promotes a lot to the fact that scuba diving is a passion to me as it is for the 5 of us. We enjoy it and we believe that his is considered the family holiday where we all gather to have fun in the same way.

During our stay in Marsa Alam which is located 900 km south of Cairo, we live a very organized and healthy holiday. We wake up everyday at 5am have our early morning dive at 6 and breakfast at 7 am. Then at 10 am we go for our morning dive then have lunch at 12 pm then have our 3rd and most probably last dive for the day at around 4 or 5 pm. Finally we have dinner at around 8 pm and go to bed at 9 pm. This is a daily routine for as long as our holiday extends.

To sum up all what has been said, SCUBA is an experience worth trying, it is where I believe I found myself and found my passion. Underwater life is breathtaking and worth the hassle!