Multi lingual OWSI looking for work + MSDT upgrade in Sharm.... ideas????

[Mark Colclough]

Hi there

Anyone know how busy Sharm is from now on until April, and how possible is it for a multi-lingual (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English) PADI Instructor to find work?

Good suggestions regarding solid dive centers will be welcomed... and of course any input regarding wages.. ;-)

I have all video gear for videographic work and plenty of dive experience.

Furthermore, I need to take my EFRI course and do several specialities.... I also am looking to do Enriched Air Instructor, and have TDI Basic Nitrox.

any ideas out there will be welcome!

THX

Mark
mark@infinita.dk

 

[RSoper]

Hi there :

I dived with Ocean College in Sharm about a year ago, and i spoke to one of the instructors about what it was like working as an instructor in the Red Sea, and at Ocean College.

If memory serves me correctly i got the impression Ocean College was quite a good employer. The instructors would do a weeks guiding out on the reefs, followed by a week of courses (OW,AOW ect,) and then they got a week of technicle diving. I'm not sure, but i think allot of the instructors went there with little in the way of technicle qualifications, but were trained up by Ocean College. The instructors seemed pretty happy anyway, i can't imagine the wage is anything special, but eneaugh to have a reasnable standard of living in Egypt, and you would certainly get by. I think at Ocean College the instructors got one day off out of every seven (pretty standard.)

I would have thought if you approach them with a view to paying for the courses you want to do, and then staying on to work for them this may place you in a more favourable position?

Hope this helps

Bob