Scuba diving can be miserable in cold weather, and going underwater below 15 degrees needs special arrangements. This course teaches you to use a dry suit to seal yourself off from low temperatures — and, in doing so, to dive a far longer season wherever you live.
Learning it in the Red Sea has an obvious advantage: you get to make your first mistakes in warm, clear water rather than in a cold quarry.
What You Learn
How a dry suit works and how it differs from a wetsuit. Getting in and out of it without help. Buoyancy control with a second gas space — the part that catches everyone out at first — and how to manage the suit and BCD together.
Recovering from a feet-first ascent, dealing with a flooded suit, and the basic care and maintenance that keeps a suit dry for years.
Good to Know
Four dives over two days. If you already own a dry suit, bring it — learning in the suit you will actually use is worth a great deal.
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.