Completed the Divemaster course

Willie and I finished our divemaster course today and Lacie arrived last night. It feels strange to be done diving for the rest of the trip, being that we have averaged 2 dives a day for the last month. We almost wish we had planned for a longer stay in Dahab. We are planning on hiking Mt Sinai in the next few days. Then we are off to Jordan with Lacie for a couple weeks to see petra.

As promised we have more diving pictures. These are from a local underwater photographer who works for Poseidon sometimes. The pictures are from a couple of different dives over the last month.

Thistlegorm and Shark Reef Pics

Deck gun

Exiting captains quarters

Sharks Reef/Yolanda Reef

heavy surf and current makes exiting pretty tough

Thistlegorm and DPVs

So here is another update on my diving adventures without any underwater pictures (coming soon). So in the past week I got the chance to try using a DPV and was lucky enough to dive the SS Thistlegorm, both 2 of the coolest things i have ever done underwater.

Diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs) are basically like a very maneuverable torpedo you hold on to while diving. They make diving very exciting and fast, you can do barrel rolls, zoom around coral pinnacles and try to keep up with fish. But unlike normal diving dpvs make you feel like your moving in an evironment with no gravity, very disorienting but super fun one you get the hang of it.The SS Thistlegorm is a 420 shipwreck in about 100 feet of water off the coast of Sharm el Sheik. It is supposedly one of the preimere shipwrecks in the world. No pictures or description can do it justice.

Boats arriving at the dive site

A very popular site

I dove the wreck 2 times, the first swimming around the entirety of the ship and entering the capain quarters. On the second dive we penetrated the hold of the ship which i can describe as only Indiana Jones underwater. The hold is filled with military trucks, ammo, airplane wings and hundreds of motocycles. It is also the first place i have ever felf claustrophobic. 80 ft down inside a shipwreck in a hallway quickly becomes almost overwhelming (side note, can someone just be "whelmed" or do them have to be overwhelmed?) Around the wreck there is some of the largest schools of fish and tuna i have ever seen.

We finished the day with another dive at Shark Reef hoping to see some of the bigger life the red sea has to offer. We didnt see any sharks, but like the wreck, the schools of fish were abundant, and we got to see a giant moray eel getting its mouth cleaned by some cleaner wrass'.

Ill have the underwater pics from the wreck and the DPV up as soon as I get them.

You can now call or skype me on willies Egyptian phone. (a replacement for the phone I dropped in a taxi.

This is the number to use if calling from states. (20 10 659 3449)

If calling from the west coast the best time to call me is from 7am - 1pm this is my afternoon after diving.

or from 10pm - 12:01am your time (this is my morning before diving)

Tamer the King of Love

Pimp My Ride Dahab edition...

Tamer one of the main drivers for Poseidon divers is quite the interesting man. He probably would be excited to hear I was putting him and his pride and joy on my blog (a little exposure). He is quite the pre-Madonna, full of himself and extremely cocky. He is a huge complainer and somehow always gets his way. So Willie and I give him a hard time, but also feed his ego, the following pics show the result of his hard work. (note he made all the mods to his car and placed all the decals himself)

Some of willies pics

Dahab Sunset From Assalah

On the way to Diving

riding on the spare tire since the jeep was full of gear

Where the goats never sleep

a view from our back window the other night

Well as the title says, our "backyard" or the desert behind our house is the home to an unowned roving band of goats, that sustain themselves off of cardboard and trash. They are pretty ragged and look like they have never seen better days. Last night as I lay awake listening to the dying noises they were making I tried to imagine that it was crickets in Winthrop (didn't work out too well). However I couldn't go out side and shoo them away for fear or spooking the neighbors temperamental camel. Welcome to Egypt...


Besides a few sleepless nights, Dahab has been going great, I have been getting at least 2 dives a day and sometime an optional 3 dive. Last night I went on my first night dive, really cool but very erie. I got to see plenty of lionfish hunting and managed to spot a Giant moray eel. I also got to experience Bioluminecence(sp) for the first time, a magical experience. To see this the whole group turns off their torches and then when you wave your hands the water glows around them.

Taxi rides = bed of a truck

Southern oasis

On the way to the Blue Hole

Retro Padi promotional poster...