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El Quseir is a remote spot on the mid-southern coastline of mainland Egypt set along a beautiful fringing reef. 

El Quseir offers great value for money and amazing&nbsp;diving any time of the year. There is little else to do here except relax and dive or snorkel on the pristine house reef.&nbsp;<br></p>

El Quseir

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The diving in El Quseir is all very accessible directly from the jetty or from ribs. This remote spot has reefs that are amongst the most pristine in the Red Sea. El Quseir is also perfect for snorkellers with some fabulous reefs, accessible directly from the shore.

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El Quseir Diving Holiday

El Quseir Scuba Diving Holidays

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<p></p><div><div>A 4 day learn to dive course with full equipment. This globally-recognized certification program is the best way to begin your life-long adventure as a certified scuba diver. Personalized training is combined with in-water practice sessions to ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater. You will earn the SSI Open Water Diver certification.</div><div><div><br></div><div>The 4 day SSI Open water diver course is an internationally valid entry level certification which allows the diver to safely plan and dives with a buddy, independent of supervision of a dive professional, up to a maximum depth of 18 meters.</div><div><br></div><div>SSI Open Water Divers are qualified to:</div></div></div><div><ul><li>&nbsp;Dive without direct supervision of a Dive Professional up to a depth of 18 metres.</li><li>&nbsp;Rent or purchase scuba equipment and participate in dive activities .</li><li>&nbsp;Continue further dive training by finishing the SSI Advanced Adventurer certification and taking further speciality dive courses.</li></ul><div>To sign up for a SSI Open Water Diver course, you must be at least 10 years old. You need good swimming skills and need to be in good physical health.</div><div><br></div><div>The SSI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:</div><ul><li>&nbsp;Knowledge Development ( independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving – There are six sections of the Open Water Diver course theory and video that need to be completed.</li><li>&nbsp;Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills – these dives are conducted in the swimming pool, to help you master essential underwater and equipment skills.</li><li>&nbsp;Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore – you do four dives in the sea to complete the Open Water Diver course.</li></ul><div>You learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and a tank. &nbsp;Your SSI Instructor will explain the equipment you need and may suggest additional educational materials, such as the required logbook.</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Rough daily itinerary</u></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Day 1: &nbsp;</b>Theory ( Chapters 1, 2 and 3 ) and Pool Training</div><div>8:30 to 1:00 pm: &nbsp;Course registration and completing the first three sections of the Open water course theory and video, followed by some knowledge review quizzes.</div><div>2:00 to 4:00 pm: We hit the pool to learn to use the scuba equipment and to practice some essential underwater skills.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Day 2:</b> Theory ( Chapters 4, 5, 6 and Exams) and Pool Training</div><div>8:30 to 1:00 pm: &nbsp;Completing the last two sections of the Open water course theory and video, followed by some knowledge review quizzes and your final exams. &nbsp;The exams may also be taken on the last day of the course.</div><div>2:00 to 4:00 pm: We hit the pool again to learn to to learn some more skills and to practice and perfect the ones learnt yesterday.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Day 3:</b> Open water dives 1 and 2</div><div>8:30 am to 3:30 pm: Meet at the Dive centre, kit up, and head out by boat to the dive site. Do two dives along with your instructor, where you practice your newly learned skills and explore the underwater world. &nbsp;Learn to wash and properly care for you equipment, and log your first two dives.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Day 4: </b>Open water dives 3 and 4</div><div>8:30 am to 3:30 pm: Same routine as before, we meet at the dive centre, get ready, and head out by boat to the dive site. You do your third and fourth dives along with your instructor, where you demonstrate your skills, practice and explore the dive sites. &nbsp;When you return, we complete your paperwork ( and final exams, if not completed on day 2 ), log your dives and you are ready to be certified as a SSI Open Water Diver!</div></div><p></p>

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<p>Pre bookable at most dive centres, but also accessible before travel via SSI directly</p>

<p>SSI Advanced Open Water Diver is the next recognition rating on the path to becoming an SSI Master Diver, and includes four SSI Specialty program Digital Kits. After completing the four SSI Specialty programs that interest you, as well as 24 logged dives, you will automatically receive the SSI Advanced Open Water Diver recognition rating, along with your SSI Specialty program certifications.<br></p>

<p>Internationally Recognized PADI Certification. Qualifies you to dive to dive on enriched air nitrox up to 40%. The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives. You can typically stay down longer and get back in the water sooner. No wonder many divers choose this as their very first specialty.</p><p>Typically when using enriched air divers will get mixes which are either 32% or 36% oxygen, and this makes enriched air ideal for diving at shallower depths. For example, when diving with air to 18 meters/59 feet using the Recreational Dive Planner, you would have a maximum no stop limit of 56 minutes on a single dive. For the same depth, but using a 32% mix of enriched air, you would have a no stop limit of 95 minutes at 18 meters/59 feet. Potentially this means that you would have up to an additional 39 minutes dive time on this profile compared with air, though don’t forget to check your gauges as you will still be breathing through the gas in your cylinder at the same rate.<br></p><p>You will learn techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox, enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations, enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what’s in your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

Maximum your dive times and feel the benefits of less Nitrogen in your system after a dive. Especially good for liveaboard dive holidays and dive with long 30m bottom times.

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