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My point is that the concern should always be for the paying customer because without them there will be no jobs and no salaries for Egyptians and foreigners alike! Here we are in agreement. I am all for training Egyptians to a higher level as long as they also commit to self-education. I...

He has stated that he will dissolve the board, not the entity! That he has done and that was what the court demanded because of the irregularities in decreasing the number of board members from 15 to 12. And that´s why we are going to have new elections coming May 14th. Why it was decided to...

I´m not justifying anything, I´m just stating facts.

Manta at Ras Umm Sid on Friday, 15th around noon! :D

You´ve got to be kidding me! A divemaster makes around 400 €/month plus commissions, a freelancer around 25 €/day! That amounts to an average monthly salary in excess of 500.- € or roughly 4200.- egyptian pounds! Show me another job in Egypt where a guy can earn that kind of money as easily...

Then your understanding is wrong! The technical department of the CDWS will in the future be "outsourced" to the Ministry of Tourism. As it looks now, they will take the whole staff of the CDWS on board and they will be responsible for the licencing process of the divecenters. From a...

You don´t get it, do you? You need a permission from a licenced center with stamp and signature and a CDWS-card holder on your side or you won´t get throught the checkpoint (south) or be in trouble (north) when a policeman controls you!

You see, that´s the difference! European instructors and DMs would not survive in this business with that attitude. A competent DM or instructor must realize that is job is something special. Having responsibility for the life of a customer, making the most valued time of the year for them...

"At the Beginning, I like-2 mention that I was Right when I stated b4 that there wld b a Counter-Attack 2 b done by our Egyptian-Workers against their Legal & Illigal Foreign-Managments & Mates at the Majority of the Private-Sector’s Associations such-as the Hotels & Resorts plus the Dive &...

1 - it were the foreigners who created that industry in the first place. Without foreigners there simply wouldn´t be that kind of dive industry in Egypt! For three decades, nobody enforced this right, because foreigners were needed. Everybody, including the authorities, knew that foreigners were...

The 10:1 rule simply doesn´t work for small operations. If you need 2 foreigners, you would have to employ 20 egyptians! That is unfeasable for a small divecenter. Or would you only want the big ones to survive? Especially in Dahab, were you don´t need to employ boat crews and have many small...

The fact that you don´t have a permission from a licenced operator. These permits are collected in the north by patroling policemen, in the south by a checkpoint which you have to pass. Lighthouse and Islands are possible, though, the whole south, Blue Hole and Canyon are not. Checkpoints and...

No, there isn´t! What Red Sea Shadow wrote is quite correct: If you are qualified (cert-level, no. of dives, initial check out) to dive with a similar buddy you do not need to follow some guy around the reef. A guide (CDWS-card holder) has to be present at the dive site, though, equipped with...

I am pretty sure I will make some people angry with what I am going to write, but let´s be frank: The vast majority of egyptian DMs and instructors I have seen, listened to or experienced are somewhere between completely incompetent and badly trained. Sure, there are exceptions, but by far...

Would that be for a year or for 6 months?

The EULF was worse than the CDWS could ever be in terms of corruption! Licences could be bought at any time for 4000.- LE and so on. Also buying CMAS-instructor licences was absolutely no problem. I know of egyptian CMAS-instructors who can´t even read and write...

Thanks for the info! I think someone in Alexandria will be really, really disappointed and upset now, flooding the forum with the same posting over and over again. So I take it, nothing has changed for the moment?

Yes, OK, but what exactly does it mean? Is the CDWS still in charge, as stated in the email, and just the board was dismissed due to a legality in the board setup, or was the chamber dissolved as a whole and does basically not exist anymore? If there is no CDWS - who is in charge now? Can...