All Instructor Courses are conducted at Sinai Divers.
Dahab is a small oasis in the Sinai Peninsula. This beautiful village is 100 km north of Sharm El Sheikh, located directly on the coastline of the Gulf of Aqaba. Biblical tourist sites, like the Moses Mountain and monastery at St. Katherine’s, are just an hour from Dahab. Taking a wander in the desert to see the bizarre canyons around Dahab is also a must.
Dahab is a lively little village with lots of small restaurants and shops, nicely lined up on the seafront between Masbat and Mashraba. Plan to stay a few days after the IDC and come diving with us to see some world-renowned sites like The Canyon & The Blue Hole.
Sinai Divers is a PADI Career Development Centre (CDC) and a National Geographic Dive Centre. These two awards are only given from PADI for highest quality in teaching up to Instructor level. Sinai Divers is the only German speaking diving centre with these two awards in the Sinai.
The dive centre is located in the Hilton Resort, directly on Dahab’s great lagoon. Here and at the Lighthouse all training dives for the IDC are conducted. We have our own private study area at Sinai Divers. This area includes two fully equipped classrooms with state-of-the-art AV equipment and teaching materials. You can learn and study in peace and quiet, but still see daily diving life going on.
As one of the biggest and busiest dive centres in Dahab, we offer an internship after the IDC for our IDC candidates. It can take up to three weeks after the IE until you get your teaching status from PADI. During this time you will get the chance to work together with our experienced team of PADI Instructors to gain experience in teaching the full range of PADI Courses until you are allowed to teach on your own. We offer this service free of charge.
We also can help you with job placement, and quite often the instructors trained with us find work in one of our 6 dive centres around Egypt.
It is quite simple to get a visa for Egypt. If you are a citizen of the EU or Switzerland you can buy the visa for around €15 at the airport when you arrive. This looks like a stamp and you need to buy it at the bank counter before the passport control. This visa is called the full visa for whole Egypt and you can easily extend this visa to stay in Egypt for up to 1 year.
If you fly directly into the Sinai and you only plan on visiting Dahab for no longer than 2 weeks, you can ask for the South Sinai visa. This visa is free of charge and you will just get a stamp in your passport. Prerequisite for this is, that your passport is valid for at least a further 3 months.
If you do not have a valid passport, you can enter Egypt with your ID card. For this you need to have a copy of your ID card with you and bring 2 passport photos along.
The official currency in Egypt is the Egyptian Pound (LE). There are many banks to exchange Euro, US$ or British Pound. You will find, as well, in many places an ATM machine where you can draw money from you account.
In the Gulf of Aqaba the water temperature is ideal the whole year round. Even during the winter, the water is still 20° C. During summer and autumn it is a lovely 30 °C. A 5mm wet suit is the right choice for most of the year.
If you join us in December or February, you should consider bringing a 7mm wet suit and a hood with you. If you get cold quickly, a hood is always recommended.
It is no problem at all to travel in Egypt on your own as a woman. Dahab is a tourist destination and the locals are used to seeing foreigners and women in bikinis. It goes without saying, however, that you should be respectful of the culture, as the majority of Egyptians are Muslim.
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