Safety & Environment

Safety

Our safety standards are of the highest level. All our boats and all our diving centres are equipped with DAN oxygen and first aid equipment. All our instructors and dive guides are DAN Members, Dan Oxygen Providers and dive with Nitrox.

Extra services available

• Doctor resident in both Coral Beach and Oberoi Sahl Hasheesh Resorts

• Ambulance service

• General hospital in Hurghada, several clinics and all medical specialties covered

• Deco International Hyperbaric Centre El Gouna

• Naval Hyperbaric Centre Hurghada

Dive Point Red Sea participates in the Deco International El Gouna support programme. Any diver at one of our centres can purchase a 3 weeks insurance policy covering free diagnosis and treatment of decompression illness.

Environment

PADI Project AWARE

AWARE Kids Club

This brand new website presents Project AWARE for children where they can find games, funky facts, cool contests and ways they can take action today.

Dive Point Red Sea's Annual Underwater & Beach Clean ups

Every year, on the third Saturday of September, we organise our underwater & beach clean ups at both our centres in Rotana Coral Beach Hotel and The Oberoi Sahl Hasheesh.

Divers at all levels as well as non-divers can join us and the thousands of volunteers who help the environment that same day all over the world.

This event is part of an international campaign being held at several thousands of waters worldwide. The goal of the campaign is the removal of trash above and under the water surface. PADI’s Project AWARE Foundation organizes this global water cleanup event in cooperation with the Ocean Conservancy USA. It is one of the most popular, most important and most successful campaigns for the preservation of the Blue Planet!

Our bodies of water, in Europe as well as in Egypt, are not only threatened by environmental pollution, but to an increasing extent also by irresponsible citizens who dispose of their trash (bottles, cans, tyres, bicycles, shopping carts, even motorbikes) in the water. This debris seriously pollutes our water, which is, after all, the source of life (drinking water), habitat and recreational environment for humans and animals.

The Project AWARE foundation is the dive industry's leading non-profit environmental organization, which works in partnership with divers and water enthusiasts across the globe conserving underwater environments through education, advocacy and action.

Make a difference – Join Project AWARE!

More details about this event on the Project AWARE Foundation website. Check what we collected this year on our Beach Clean up picture gallery and on our News page. For those interested to known the statistics from Project AWARE on the garbage collection in 2004, we made them available as a pdf file on our Download page.

Dive Point Red Sea has been, for several years, a member of the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA).

HEPCA environmental advices

To do in the water

• Use the eyes instead of the hands: there is much to see

• Pay attention while taking pictures  

• Control your buoyancy

• Collect the garbage that you find

• Signal any violation of these rules

Not to do in the water

• Throw garbage

• Touch, step or kneel down on corals

• Move the sand

• Disturb the underwater flora and fauna

• Collect underwater souvenirs

Egypgtian national law 102 from 1983

• Do not to touch, break off or move corals and shells

• Do not collect, remove or damage anything, living or dead, from the protected areas (corals, shells, fish, plants, etc.)

• Fishing and spear fishing are prohibited in the protected areas

• Feeding the fish upsets the biological equilibrium of the coral barriers and can be dangerous, therefore forbidden

• Do not throw any kind of garbage in the sea