OW diver in sharm

In article <UD8cd.91940$BI5.6036@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk> , Pete
<pete@net.ent> writes
>Was just reading Dive and it mentioned a minimum requirement on 50 dives to
>dive in a Egyptian national park.
>
>As an OW diver, with maybe 20+ dives and max depth 30meters I assume that
>there would be ample dive sites in Sharm for my experience (on the basis
>that many people complete OW out there). I have not found my qualification
>limiting in the past (carribbean etc), How limiting is my qualification for
>diving the Red Sea?

I dove in Hurghada within the Giftun National Park area (had to pay a
couple of pounds per day extra for those dives). No such limit was
mentioned and the majority of people on the boat had not logged 50
dives.

Part of my dive went down to 32 metres but the OW divers stayed above
20. To be honest, on almost all of my dives in the Red Sea there was
little worth seeing below 20m anyway and the best stuff was above 10!
This has been my experience on most of my dives, except wrecks (where
the depth of the wreck is the most important) and where I went looking
for big fish (hammerheads in particular).
--
David Mahon

In article <UD8cd.91940$BI5.6036@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk> , Pete
<pete@net.ent> writes
>Was just reading Dive and it mentioned a minimum requirement on 50 dives to
>dive in a Egyptian national park.
>
>As an OW diver, with maybe 20+ dives and max depth 30meters I assume that
>there would be ample dive sites in Sharm for my experience (on the basis
>that many people complete OW out there). I have not found my qualification
>limiting in the past (carribbean etc), How limiting is my qualification for
>diving the Red Sea?

I dove in Hurghada within the Giftun National Park area (had to pay a
couple of pounds per day extra for those dives). No such limit was
mentioned and the majority of people on the boat had not logged 50
dives.

Part of my dive went down to 32 metres but the OW divers stayed above
20. To be honest, on almost all of my dives in the Red Sea there was
little worth seeing below 20m anyway and the best stuff was above 10!
This has been my experience on most of my dives, except wrecks (where
the depth of the wreck is the most important) and where I went looking
for big fish (hammerheads in particular).
--
David Mahon

In article <UD8cd.91940$BI5.6036@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk> , Pete
<pete@net.ent> writes
>Was just reading Dive and it mentioned a minimum requirement on 50 dives to
>dive in a Egyptian national park.
>
>As an OW diver, with maybe 20+ dives and max depth 30meters I assume that
>there would be ample dive sites in Sharm for my experience (on the basis
>that many people complete OW out there). I have not found my qualification
>limiting in the past (carribbean etc), How limiting is my qualification for
>diving the Red Sea?

I dove in Hurghada within the Giftun National Park area (had to pay a
couple of pounds per day extra for those dives). No such limit was
mentioned and the majority of people on the boat had not logged 50
dives.

Part of my dive went down to 32 metres but the OW divers stayed above
20. To be honest, on almost all of my dives in the Red Sea there was
little worth seeing below 20m anyway and the best stuff was above 10!
This has been my experience on most of my dives, except wrecks (where
the depth of the wreck is the most important) and where I went looking
for big fish (hammerheads in particular).
--
David Mahon

In article <UD8cd.91940$BI5.6036@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk> , Pete
<pete@net.ent> writes
>Was just reading Dive and it mentioned a minimum requirement on 50 dives to
>dive in a Egyptian national park.
>
>As an OW diver, with maybe 20+ dives and max depth 30meters I assume that
>there would be ample dive sites in Sharm for my experience (on the basis
>that many people complete OW out there). I have not found my qualification
>limiting in the past (carribbean etc), How limiting is my qualification for
>diving the Red Sea?

I dove in Hurghada within the Giftun National Park area (had to pay a
couple of pounds per day extra for those dives). No such limit was
mentioned and the majority of people on the boat had not logged 50
dives.

Part of my dive went down to 32 metres but the OW divers stayed above
20. To be honest, on almost all of my dives in the Red Sea there was
little worth seeing below 20m anyway and the best stuff was above 10!
This has been my experience on most of my dives, except wrecks (where
the depth of the wreck is the most important) and where I went looking
for big fish (hammerheads in particular).
--
David Mahon

Can't find anything to say that you need a minimum number of dives to dive in
Ras Mohammed but you will probably have to do a "check dive" with your operator
to make sure you aren't going to trample the coral.

All divers are limited to 30m by law (unless on a specifically aranged
technical dive).

Most of the dive sites are wall dives, therefore your 18m depth limit will not
be a problem as you can just stay above 18m and not miss much.....

The vast majority of the wrecks are deeper than 18m.

HTH
Garry.

Can't find anything to say that you need a minimum number of dives to dive in
Ras Mohammed but you will probably have to do a "check dive" with your operator
to make sure you aren't going to trample the coral.

All divers are limited to 30m by law (unless on a specifically aranged
technical dive).

Most of the dive sites are wall dives, therefore your 18m depth limit will not
be a problem as you can just stay above 18m and not miss much.....

The vast majority of the wrecks are deeper than 18m.

HTH
Garry.

Can't find anything to say that you need a minimum number of dives to dive in
Ras Mohammed but you will probably have to do a "check dive" with your operator
to make sure you aren't going to trample the coral.

All divers are limited to 30m by law (unless on a specifically aranged
technical dive).

Most of the dive sites are wall dives, therefore your 18m depth limit will not
be a problem as you can just stay above 18m and not miss much.....

The vast majority of the wrecks are deeper than 18m.

HTH
Garry.

Can't find anything to say that you need a minimum number of dives to dive in
Ras Mohammed but you will probably have to do a "check dive" with your operator
to make sure you aren't going to trample the coral.

All divers are limited to 30m by law (unless on a specifically aranged
technical dive).

Most of the dive sites are wall dives, therefore your 18m depth limit will not
be a problem as you can just stay above 18m and not miss much.....

The vast majority of the wrecks are deeper than 18m.

HTH
Garry.

"Splosh Junkie diver@tiscali.co.uk>" <marsh<removeme> wrote in message
news:41713b4d_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>
.. Personally I've been down to my PADI qualified 40m
> 3 times only - its all Ive needed to.
>

> Alex
>


Out of interest is that with or without the Padi Deep Diving speciality.
Only
there's an interesting letter in Diver this month that goes on to say that
no Diver, Dive Master or Instructor is qualified to 40m unless he or she has
completed the course. I only ask because it's been discussed on here before
and it always comes
down to the depth limit versus recommended depth arguement which seems to be
a grey area. Whenever I've adverstised boat spaces I've stipulated that if
it's a 40m dive Padi divers are very welcome but must have this
qualification. I
was then told that this was a recommendation and not mandatory.

Of course the guy who wrote the letter could be wrong.

"Splosh Junkie diver@tiscali.co.uk>" <marsh<removeme> wrote in message
news:41713b4d_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>
.. Personally I've been down to my PADI qualified 40m
> 3 times only - its all Ive needed to.
>

> Alex
>


Out of interest is that with or without the Padi Deep Diving speciality.
Only
there's an interesting letter in Diver this month that goes on to say that
no Diver, Dive Master or Instructor is qualified to 40m unless he or she has
completed the course. I only ask because it's been discussed on here before
and it always comes
down to the depth limit versus recommended depth arguement which seems to be
a grey area. Whenever I've adverstised boat spaces I've stipulated that if
it's a 40m dive Padi divers are very welcome but must have this
qualification. I
was then told that this was a recommendation and not mandatory.

Of course the guy who wrote the letter could be wrong.