Lieve's Diving Journey

Lieve, Dahab Rep

I started diving during a holiday in Egypt and I was hooked from my very first dive. There was a whole new world out there to discover! My plan was to stay for some time in Dahab and do my PADI Open Water course before heading to Cairo. However, loving the underwater world and the diving so much, I cancelled my ticket to Cairo and signed up for the PADI Advanced Open Water course. For some weeks I enjoyed getting to know people sharing the same passion for diving, visiting nice dive sites with the most colorful reefs, learning how to become a better diver, watching fish and trying to remember their names.

Once back in Belgium, I immediately checked when I could plan my next trip to get some more dives in my logbook. After holidays of diving in Dahab, Sharm El Sheikh, El Quesir and Jordan, I felt ready to start the PADI Rescue Diver course. I found a counter job in a dive center in Dahab, which I could combine with the PADI Rescue Diver course. This training showed me so many new aspects of diving, that I got curious to learn more about it. The PADI Divemaster training was the logical next step and, to me, the most fun and interesting course of all the diving courses I had taken so far. It makes you a different and more confident diver. You learn more about the organisation and planning of dives, about dive equipment, you learn how to demonstrate all the skills you practiced during the PADI Open Water course, you get familiar with how to guide dives and so much more.

Now working as a PADI Divemaster feels very rewarding. I enjoy every dive and can’t imagine to work in an office again, far away from the sea and this incredible feeling of freedom you have under water. When I am in Belgium, I truly miss the Red Sea and the diving.

For sure, an adventure and experience I can recommend to all of you!

Diving Dahab, Red Sea, Egypt