Learn how to dive with the flow. The Drift Diver specialty teaches you to move with the current and experience the sensation of being carried along by the water — far more fun, and far less work, than swimming against it.
You also learn how to stay together as a group while you drift, and how to use the equipment that makes drift diving safe.
What You Learn
Reading the current before you get in, and planning the dive around it. Entry and exit techniques for a moving boat pick-up. Staying in contact with your buddy and your guide when everyone is moving.
Handling drift equipment — surface marker buoys, reels and lines — so the boat can find you at the end.
Good to Know
Minimum age is 12. Several of the sites we visit around Hurghada run a reliable current, which makes this one of the easiest specialties to schedule into a normal diving week.
Transfer. For hotels inside Hurghada, transfer to and from your hotel is free of charge. For hotels in Makadi Bay, Soma Bay, Sahl Hasheesh and El Gouna there is a surcharge of €20 per day per car. Rental equipment, where it is not already included, is €15 per day and person.