Sinai dive guide pdf

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Most of our trips begin from Sharm El Sheikh marina and either head north or south on two separate routes This is your chance to open doors you have only imagined!

Whether you work in a local dive center, at a resort, or on a live aboard dive boat Padi 5 star gold palm resort offers daily snorkelling and diving trips to Ras Mohamed National Park and Strait of Tiran. Our multilingual instructors, including Japanese, teach all level of Padi courses, including Nitrox and Sinai Dive Club offers a full family programme, in Sharm El Sheikh and Sinai, if you have non-diving family or friends with you they too can have a fun packed holiday, doing all the things they enjoy to.

We can help you organise whatever is needed and give our advice on where to go, what to do and what to see. Was out from 1st to 15th September and completed my open water qualification. To your left, at the top of the pass, you look south into the wide, sandy valley of Wadi Isbaiyah which formed part of an ancient trade route connecting the Monastery to both Palestine and Cairo. Camel caravans came over the pass below, marked by a pile of stones and colloquially called Nagb'i Deir, bringing food and supplies as well as pilgrims, scholars and other travellers to the Monastery from the port of E l Tur on the east coast of Sinai.

Below, you can also see a small Bedouin village and gardens which are stone walled to keep out animals. Follow the path for a further metres to Site 9. Site 9 is located on a bend in the camel path. Looking across to Gebel El Deir, you can see a green tree midway up the mountain.

To the left of this you find the Monastery of Saint Episteme, a nun, and Saint Galaktion, a monk, who lived in the 4th century. Historical note Galaktion was the son of pagan parents who, in spite of sacrifices to idols, had been childless until they were advised by a priest to pray for a child to the God of the Christians. Galaktion was born and brought up as a Christian; he later married Episteme, also a Christian.

They devoted their lives to God and became monastic's. They settled in Sinai along with their followers to follow a life of devotion and to escape religious persecution but were captured by the Romans and martyred in the arena in Alexandria. To your right you have a good view of the switch-back path leading to Saint Theodore's chapel on the green tinged mountain of Gebel El Muneijah.

Continue on for about metres, passing 4 separate cafeterias, to Site From the camel terminus, you climb through a narrow pass in the mountain which was cut through, to continue Abbas Pasha's path to the summit.

Evidence of the holes drilled for the explosives to blast open the way can be seen on the sides of the path. Nature note On some rock faces a black leaf-like pattern can be seen. Some people believe that the patterns were caused by divine light, so intense that it imprinted the shadows of living plants on stone and that it is reminiscent of the leaves from The Burning Bush. Geologists call this pattern dendrites and say it is formed by a chemical reaction which leaves a manganese deposit.

Do you see the Rays of God or do you see Dendrites? After the pass, the path leads left to the summit of Mount Sinai and right to Elijah's Basin. Turn left and climb the final steps to Site the summit. It will take about half an hour. The infinite complication of jagged peaks and varied ridges, and their prevalent intensely red and greenish tints The final steps of The Stairway of Repentance take you to 2.

The view from here has been likened to "an ocean of petrified waves". Sometimes it is possible to see the hazy blues of the Gulf of Suez in the east and the Gulf of Aqaba in the west from this point. The northern and eastern boundaries of the Gebeliya territory are demarcated by the dark volcanic circular dyke and the peaks of Gebel Um Alawi.

Use this panoramic sketch to orientate yourself and locate landmarks. Christians and Muslims have long regarded this summit as the sacred Mount Sinai, although Jewish tradition is more guarded in ascribing an earthy location to Mount Sinai. In early Christian times, it was only the pious that walked up the mountain in barefooted reverence and who were permitted to visit the summit.

Pilgrims rarely slept here and to this day the Bedouin respect the Holy Mountain by leaving with their flocks before sunset. The practise of sleeping on the summit to watch the sunrise is something of the last couple of years and the problems caused by waste and overcrowding disappoint many visitors. If you are camping, please sleep at Elijah's Basin and never on the summit. The altar of the Church of the Holy Trinity is said to be built over the rock where God created the Tablets of the Law.

Adjoining its northern wall, behind an iron fence, is the cleft in the rock from where Moses beheld God's glory.

Many people believe that the marks inside the crevice are the imprints of Moses' back, hands and head where he "shrank back into the rock while the glory of the Lord passed by". At the end of the 4th century, Etheria, a pilgrim, writes of worshipping in a chapel at the top of Mount Sinai. In the 6th century, under Emperor Justinian, a new basilica-type chapel, with two side aisles, was built of cut granite.

It was much larger than the present church, extending to the edge of the present mosque. The basilica was destroyed in the 11th century along with many other Christian shrines by the Fatimid ruler El Hakim.

The Monastery was spared because of the letter of protection in which Prophet Muhammad pbuh declared "a secure and positive promise" to defend the Christian establishment and because it also had a mosque inside the walls. The extend of this 6th century church can be easily traced on the western slope of the summit. The altar of the basilica is thought to have been incorporated into the existing Church of the Holy Trinity built in Many of the large pink granite blocks were quarried from Elijah's Basin.

The circular Christian cross in stone relief found on some of the blocks is indicative of the Justinian era. Next to the church is a mosque which also incorporates some of the blocks from the earlier church. Beneath the mosque is a small grotto with a prayer niche which was probably a crypt of the original basilica. Neither the church nor mosques are normally open to visitors. About 40 metres below the summit are the remains of a Byzantine water conduit which fed the cistern between the two small rock knolls.

Other conduits can be found on the mountain. Return by the stairs, approximately metres down from the chapel, to the left of the Stairway.

Safety in diving first. This has top priority at Sinai Divers. Therefore regular maintained equipment of well known manufactures is of great importance. Divers and students diving on the house reef in front of the center, can store their personal belongings in the guest equipment-room.

Showers and WC are located here as well in a separate building. The area around Marsa Alam is rated as one of the best diving destinations in the Red Sea and is one of the few diving areas in the region which is not overcrowded and still very much unspoiled.

There is something here for everyone, dives from the beach on a gently sloping reef, trips to more remote bays or by boat to legendary reefs such as Elphinstone, Abu Dabbab and Samadai Reef Dolphin House. The walls of the famous Elphinstone reefs regular oceanic white-tip shark sightings covered with lush soft corals, colorful sponges and huge gorgonian fans, cast their spell over everyone.

Abu Dabbab swim-throughs and caves and Samadai Reef large schools of dolphins are further highlights. The house reef, which drops down fast and steeply, has everything beginners and experienced divers could wish for. We also offer full day excursions by mini bus to more remote bays further south along the coast, to dive some of the countless reefs or ship wrecks. We know that is not always an easy task to please everyone and to put the trip together.

We at Sinai Divers are more then happy to support you with special group arrangements and special group rates. Wether your group of advanced divers want to experience the best diving there is together or you plan to take a diving course as a group , we provide all the logistic and facilities you need for a memorable stay with Sinai Divers.

Depending on the size of your group we offer additional benefits specifically such as private boats and free places subject to availability and conditions. She was less than a year old when she went down, chock-full of Allied military supplies, including motorbikes, Bren gun carriers, trucks, rubber boots, rifles and munitions, and is now like an underwater museum. However, the Blue Hole itself is a great dive for recreational-level divers, and technical divers will love the dramatic swim down and through the archway.

Around the corals you will find large quantities of parrotfish, grouper, moray eels and blue triggerfish.