Informed by who? A dive center?When I was there last year I was informed that you had to hire a local DM/Guide to do any diving in Dahab.
I mean, indulging fear for problems with the law is an easy way to bind customers to dive centers.
7 years ago we went diving in Lanzarote. We wanted do some guided dives to get to know the local way of diving and some good dive spots. On top of that we wanted to rent some tanks and weights to go diving on our own.
Beforehand I mailed like 15 local dive centers for a quote for 10 guided dives and 12 times renting tanks, weights and refills.
The replies ranged from: “By law, you are not allowed to dive on your own so you have to dive with our guides!” to: “ We’ll be happy to offer you two guided dives in the morning and how many tanks do you want for the afternoon?”
On Christmas the dive center was closed so the evening before they gave us 6 tanks to go diving on Christmas. The rented VW polo was loaded, lol! Best Christmas ever. Fak snow, jingle bells and sh1tty Christmas movies! Let’s dive!