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Highlights from the Red Sea Bash 2007 in Hurghada, Marsa Alam and Sharm El Sheikh

 

Its popularity grows each year so, back by divers' demand, it's your chance to join in the annual Emperor Red Sea Bash.

Book today for Hurghada, Sharm or Marsa Alam and get set to enjoy some great diving and fun events throughout June and July.

Win lots of prizes including:

• 1 x 5-day dive pack per centre each week (at a dive centre of your choice)
• 2 x 3-day dive packs per centre each week (at a dive centre of your choice)
• FREE Nitrox
• FREE dives
• FREE beer
• FREE BBQ
• FREE Emperor T-shirts (for those must-have fashionistas) for everyone who checks in!
• Dive accessories
• Special reduced-rate trips
• Quiz nights
• UK dive magazine subscriptions
• And last but by no means least - Impressive Prizes for the incredibly popular Underwater Treasure Hunt

Marsa Alam just keeps adding things to do for all levels of diver! The Centre is now a fully operational Tekstreme centre offering all courses and guiding for the Tek diver. With the help of Chris Berry, MA's Tek instructor, the team has been finding that most of their wonderful sites just keep going and going and... They recently made an early morning dive with a boat journey of only 10 minutes where they could drop into deep 75m+ waters for a fantastic wall dive at 55m along with a HUGE grouper and two turtles getting...friendly, shall we say! With the addition of some speed boats - coming soon - it will give you the chance to get a nice 55m dive in before breakfast!

The Dugong survey is going strong with more and more details coming in from guides and guests alike. Recently, the team has seen pairs of Dugongs and identified the same individual as a 'local' at one of the closest sites. The ever popular Abu Dabab shore dive has also given some amazing encounters with Denis and Lucy the two resident Dugongs.

The photo of the week competition always causes debate over which diver has taken the best picture but this fabulous one was taken by a non-diver happily enjoying a day out snorkelling! So it just goes to prove all that gear does not make the perfect picture. Well done to all our budding photographers.

Marsa Alam, Nuweiba, Safaga, Sharm El Sheikh (Shark's Bay) are now BSAC Dive Training Centres.

Thirteen instructors from a selection of Emperor's dive centres descended on Sharm to carry out our crossover training to become BSAC Open Water Instructors. The aim of this conversion was for Emperor to become the main BSAC flagship company providing BSAC courses and catering to their members' needs in the Red Sea, and what a success it was.

Under the supervision of Marsa Alam's 'Resident Instructor Dugong Spotter' (RIDS!), Mo, guests have had no less than 10 encounters this month including two dugong at the surface a couple of times.

The team is looking at the relationship of weather, tides and moon phase to see if there is a pattern that would allow them to predict when the sightings increase. So far, surface sightings seem to be in rough seas and almost all sightings are around mid day.

One strange idea was that they are attracted by singing underwater...however, this seemed to have had the reverse effect but if you have heard the guides sing you would completely understand why!