Sinai Divers
The Most Experienced Dive Operator in the Sinai
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Your hosts at Sinai Divers are Petra Röglin and Rolf Schmidt. With decades of experience in the region both Petra and Rolf’s background was in adventure travel when the concept of getting off the beaten path was new to the area, way-back in the early Seventies.
Committed divers their experience in adventure travel combined with their love of the area lead them to establish Sinai Divers in 1975. Since then the name Sinai Divers has become synonymous with quality and safe diving and internationally recognized, not only by their tens of thousands of satisfied clients, but by the international dive profession.
Still family owned and still following those early goals their unmatched experienced continues to benefit all who dive with them.
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Expertise and Specialisation
Sinai Divers operate 6 diving centers in Egypt, located in Sharm el Sheikh, Dahab, Taba and Marsa Alam offering daily excursions with custom built dive boats. We offer one or two week liveaboard dive cruises in the northern and southern Egyptian Red Sea and offer dive courses for novices who have barely snorkeled right through to Instructor level. Note that we offer “Nitrox For Free” for certified divers whilst those traveling to Egypt without equipment can hire from us subject to us seeing evidence of your certification/log-book. Any dives lead by us are preceded by a detailed briefing.
Licences and Associations
Sinai Divers holds a Minister of Tourism license and Egyptian Underwater Federation license to operate as a dive company in Egypt.
We are Founding Members of the SSDM 
(South Sinai Association for Diving and Marine Activities) and a Founding Member of the first Chamber of Diving and Water Sports in Egypt.
We are a PADI 5 Star Golden Palm Resort and Career Development Centre (in Dahab)
, SSI (Scuba Schools International) member, members of CMAS (Confederation Mondiale Des Activites Subaquatiques).
We hold 3rd party liability insurance with Al Shark Co. and Gerling Insurance Germany DAN for Instructors and Divemasters.
Responsible Travel
Sinai Divers is an active member of PADI’s ‘Project Aware’, and both a supporter and host of ‘Reef Check International’. We are proud to say we introduced the international coastal clean up in the Sinai and built the first and only underwater buoyancy training park for dive training – benefiting local divers as well as overseas visitors.
Dive Courses
Season: Year round
Whether you are an aspiring diver or already qualified and looking to progress your dive career Sinai Divers can help. Recognised by all relevant international bodies we provide training and certification courses for all.
Daily Diving Excursions
Season: Year round
Our daily dive excursions are famous. We offer a wide range of dive opportunities to the best sites around Sharm and along the Red sea coast from our boats. Join us for a day's diving you won't forget.
Liveaboard Safaris
Season: Year round
Want more than a couple of dives per day and to dive on remote, little-visited reefs? Then join us on one of our exceptional liveaboard safaris. With several well-equipped, boats appointed to the highest standards you'll love the difficult to reach, special dive sites we'll introduce you to, whilst at the end of the day you can relax in extreme comfort.
Technical Diving
Season: Year round
Technical Diving allows the experienced diver to discover new dimensions in diving.
The extension and addition of different equipment and special breathing gas mixtures provides the possibility to extended bottom time and reach greater depths. The link between recreational diving
and the advanced technical applications (TECH diving) is Nitrox or EAN diving and Sinai Divers have the xperience and expertise to help you rech your potential.
Reef Check Safaris
Season: Year round
The Reef Check program brings together community groups, government departments, academia and business partners to:
- Educate the public about the coral reef crisis and issues facing coastal ecosystem;
- Create a global network of volunteer teams to regularly monitor and report on reef health;
- Scientifically investigate reef ecosystem processes;
- Facilitate collaboration among academia, NGOs, governments and business;
- Stimulate local community action to protect remaining pristine reefs and rehabilitate damaged reefs worldwide using ecologically sound and economically sustainable solutions.
If you want to make a difference, then contact us and we'll tell you how you can help.
Food and Beverages
On our daily dive excursions we offer a superb lunch of local Egyptian cuisine as part of the activity, whilst our safari liveaboards are, of course, full board, mixing local and European dishes throughout the week. The bar in our Dive Centre provides a great place to relax after the excitement of the day and is open 16:00hrs to 19:00hrs daily.
Accommodation
On our safari boats cabins are double with some triples - all with private facilities, AC. We can easily book hotels to match your budget for those wanting a shore-based dive holiday.
Transport
The meeting point for our daily excursions ranges from the Dive Centre or on the boat. Transfers are arranged by minibus, and transfers to and from your hotel is included if necessary. All tanks and dive gear will be loaded for you and your equipment can stay on board your boat if making multi-day dives with us.
Our daily excursion boats are made of wood with space for up to 25 divers, whilst our safari liveaboard boats carry a maximum of 16 divers in a mixture of comfortable cabin accommodation. They feature a large dive deck with dive platform, space for tanks and dive gear, a sun deck, W.C. and lounge area where meals are served.
The boats are equipped with oxygen, first aid kits and VHF Radio. All boat excursions are accompanied by an experienced, multilingual dive guide, in charge of all your diving needs.
Local Guides
At Sinai Divers we are proud of our staff which are both Egyptian and from the international community. All our instructors are multilingual. Staff qualification ranges from trainees to Instructor Trainers and every level in between.
Age Restrictions
We operate all diving in line with internationally recognized guidelines which means that children can start with us from the age of 8 on the excellent Bubblemaker Program.
What to Bring
From April until end of September expect high temperatures in the Sinai and pack accordingly: light cotton clothing, sun protection and just occasionally a wind proof jacket for the boats; those subject to motion sickness should bring appropriate medication and which should not affect diving.
Between October and April additional warm clothing and wind protection (especially for the head) is required. It can be surprisingly cold at night especially at sea (December to February coldest.
Please remember that Egypt is a tolerant Islamic country and local sensibilities should be respected – always carry some long trousers and shirts with long arms.
For divers all equipment is available for rent. Regular divers should endeavour to bring their own mask, fins, snorkel, suit and dive computer.
General Terms and Conditions for the Participation of Diving Services
The following regulations apply for the participation of all diving services booked with us. For all-inclusive services the travel conditions of the tour operator apply additionally with reference to the services offered there and the surrounding General Terms and Conditions.
When you book with us we will send you a pro-forma invoice; this will ask you for your credit card details and to fax it back to us at the number shown to confirm your booking with us.
1. Booking of diving services / conclusion of the contract
The receipt of the booking data confirms that we accept the booking from you, subject to your fitness of taking part in diving, and consequently also that we accept the booking and reservation of the diving services. After presentation of the diving voucher we are obligated to perform the diving services you have booked and therewith to accept your contract offer, provided that you fulfill the requirements as per the particulars given below which pertain particularly to your safety.
2. Services
The services offered and the extent thereof arise from the scope of supply described in the offer and the booking documents, which after an on-line reservation by mail or/and E-mail you receive in advance and which you must submit with us on commencement. Any additional agreements over and above are to be made in writing and require confirmation by the agent/organizer or us.
3. Participation of Diving
If you are already a diver you have to present a valid and internationally recognized diving license (Brevet) and your logbook on location. If you should not have carried out a diving course for longer than one year, or not have submitted a logbook, we reserve the right to carry out a check diving course with you. The cost is Euro 45.00. Should you not have dived for a longer period, we will carry out, if necessary, a Basic-Update-Diving course against payment of costs.
4. Medical Form / Medical
4.1. Medical Form
By law all our customers are obligated to complete a medical form of RSTC. In case of doubt you has go to consult a doctor to get a permitted. To avoid possible delays we recommend to complete this medical form in advance. All of our participants must be able to show this form and in case of doubt the medical certification.
4.2. Medical
Locally a valid medical certificate has to be presented which confirms your diving fitness. In addition the following regulations apply: not older than 2 year(s), if you are under 40 years of age, not older than 1 year(s), if you are 40 years of age or older.
5. Diving and Health
The sport of diving is a demanding activity with physical stress. Unfortunately, if you had illnesses already beforehand or still have, you may not participate in diving courses. In principle the following always applies: Neither alcohol or drugs may have been taken 12 hours before diving. Diving may no longer be carried out 24 hours
before the start of an air flight. Diving under medication is to be clarified before and with the responsible physician.
6. Confirmation of Suitability for Diving
The participant is deemed declare by his/her on-line reservation and/or registration that no reasons exist to prevent participation in diving activities on grounds of health.
7. Diving for Children
Children from the age of 8 may dive with us with permission from their parents. A precondition however is the individual evaluation locally by a certified diving instructor, who examines your child for fitness. Possible justified refusals are binding and are not open to objection. The decision of the respective diving instructor is final.
8. Special Diving Courses / Diving Safaris
Special diving courses and diving safaris are dependent on the number of the participating persons and on weather conditions. You will be informed of any possible necessary changes.
9. Exclusion of the Participation in Diving Services
During the diving programs the instructions of the diving instructors or/and the responsible person must be obeyed. Offences can entail the immediate exclusion without claim of reimbursement for the service.
10. Payment Conditions / Cancellations / Changes
The payment is made to the invoicing party (agent), indicated in the invoice. The General Terms and Conditions indicated for payment -, change and cancellation regulations of the agent, which you can read and must confirm on booking, apply.
11. Reimbursement of Diving Services already paid for
Diving services which for safety reasons, e.g. weather conditions, have to be broken off or can not be carried out, may be scheduled again and repeated by us at a suitable later date. If diving services for safety reasons are rescheduled, the dates will be agreed upon locally with the participant. Changes of dates for the aforementioned
reasons are not open to objection. The possibly entitled repayment of diving services already paid is regulated in the General Terms and Conditions of the agent.
12. Insurances
In principle the participant dives and participates in diving services and possible transport services thereby connected at his/her own risk. We recommend the conclusion of a diving insurance. We also recommend the conclusion of travel resignation insurance. You can receive further information about this from the Internet and from your agent.
13. Obligation to Cooperate
The participant is obliged to cooperate in arising defaults in the context of the legal regulations to avoid or keep possible damages small. The participant is in particular obliged to inform us of his objections immediately locally, so that we can provide for remedy, as far as this is possible. If no agreement can be obtained locally, the participant has the right to submit to his agent in writing any shortcomings, which can
lead to the reduction of the service price, immediately after return, at the latest after 7 days. If the participant omits to indicate any shortcomings promptly, then a claim on price reduction does not occur. After expiration of the time limit the participant can only make claims, if he was unavoidably prevented without blame from adherence to the time limit. Further basis for claims and statutory limitation are in the General Terms and Conditions of the agent, which you must read and confirm on booking services.
14. Jurisdiction
Complaints against diving providers are to be raised at his registered office. For complaints of the diving provider against the participant the domicile of the participant is relevant, unless the complaint is directed against registered traders or persons, who changed their domicile or usual place of residence abroad after conclusion of the contract or whose domicile or usual place of residence is not known at the time of raising the complaint. In this case the registered office of the diving provider is relevant.
15. Miscellaneous
Corrections of mistakes as well as of printing and calculation errors in brochures, on-line offers and any other offers remain reserved, as far as these were not already confirmed. Additional agreements and ancillary agreements require written confirmation by us and/or the agent.
16. Final Clause
If individual clauses of the contract with the customer including these general trading conditions should be or become totally or partly ineffective, then the validity of the remaining clauses is not thereby affected. The totally or partly ineffective clause is to be replaced by a clause, whose commercial result approaches as near as possible
the ineffective clause.
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