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... have something to do with the fact that all of the<br>underwater world is so heavily affected by global warming and people<br>want to see it before it's to late. Everyone is coming to the<br>understanding that at some point the coral reefs and the marine life<br>won't be around much longer. Many people have become more and more<br>interested in marine life and particularly coral reefs, because they<br>are fading out of existence. All I know is that when I went diving in ...

... while continuing the discussion with the guides and the bus driver.  The talk appeared to get real intense as we drove off, while the rest of us were silent just watching in awe not knowing what was going on.  We then got to our destination of a rest stop (only 5 minutes up the road) when everyone, except for the group got off.  Amr, our tour guide, came back on to announce that this was our rest stop, and that we were able to get snacks and drinks.  Let's just say that at the time, not ...

... I was, mostly because it would be handy to know how to do it, if I one day should find myself in deep water while laughing this hard. It took a while, though, but ultimately I did manage to clear my mask and regulator of water. Needless to say, we both started laughing again once we exited the water two minutes later. Firstly, we just had to say hello to the masked puffer we kept running into close to the beach, though. This dive had been a perfect way of ...

... dive of the entire trip, and I didn't want to get out of the water. Neither did my brother. We hung out for a while at 4-5 meters depth while waiting for the rest of the group. Most of our group had already taken place in the zodiac directly above us. Basem was the last to show up. He was unmistakably having a blast with the other guide and a French girl. Apparently they too had turned into kids during this dive, because at one point the French girl turned ...

... faster in and out of the corals plentiful hiding places. Clown fish and moray eels is obviously my brothers choice of entertainment below the surface. At one point during this dive he was playing around with two nemos. He simply held out his hands and they would swim from one to the other. He was so enthralled by these two enchanting creatures, that he didn't even notice the black-spotted and white moray eel right next to him. I tried to get his attention to tell him ...

... even told me, that when they had first learned to scuba dive they too had had to be attached to the guide for the few (if not many) dives. It surprised me a lot that even one guy who appears to be a natural under water had started out just like me...Guess there is hope for me after all ;) It doesn't bother me to be attached to someone else, it just irritates me that I have, but eventually I will learn to control my air consumption. After all, experience only comes with, well...experience.

... hiding, and we were pleased to see the odd beings for a change: Lots of crustaceans roamed the corals, while a giant stone crab crawled on the sandy bottom. This one was hard to spot, as it was almost completely camouflaged by the surrounding colours. Nearby a large shrimp was fighting off a lion fish successfully; consequently the lion fish fled out of sight. The corals were covered in widely spread ...

... had made it sound like. We had to trust that this was indeed a dive site for all levels of divers. Everywhere I searched afterwards it surely said, that the difficulty of this dive site is suitable for all certification levels. From the trucks we walked down the rocky beach, which more resembled the desert than a beach, and walked directly onto the reef. A formidably tiny hole in the reef, which we were supposed to jump through, was our only entry point. This was the part that had ...

... and I truly had a good time. I did run out of air pretty quick, so I ascended to a lower depth. Luckily the colours of the reef and fish are smashing at 5 meters as well. I managed to stay submerged almost the entire way back to shore. I was happy I had gone on that dive. My confidence was completely renewed. I was even happier when I noticed that we still had loads of time to eat lunch! -it seemed that meal times were the only thing I was able to remember while in Egypt.

Even before the afternoon dive, there was talk about doing a night dive. Despite having been a little terrified last night, I was up for it. I really wanted to get better at diving, and even if I don't like the dark particularly much, I was drawn by the world below the surface...even at night when the scariest creatures tend to come out from their hiding places! At 7 pm 7 of us were getting ready for the dive in the dark. Some of the more experienced divers were ...