The traffic and the CDWS

Apparently you need a Pick-up (for the tanks) and a Minibus (for the divers) not older than 3 years if you are running a dive center.
Hmm...here, in Dahab, it's shore diving. Means, you get your tanks ready, put them onto a car (Pick-up) and off we go!
This gives a lots of business to the local taxi drivers.
Apparently you need now an 'own' car and an 'own' MiniBus; and the divers are not allowed to sit in the same car like the tanks.

O.K., you will do a deep tek-dive, like 200 meters (aaeeehem, did you hear about technical diving, CDWS??), which is standard. Incl. all the support divers you'll have some 10 divers at the dive site. You'll have at least (!!) 4 cars (Pick-Ups) only for tanks. And YOU ask me to buy some Pick-Ups? Is your brother running Toyota Egypt?

Thanks for the evidence of corruption!

Missing diver in Sharm

Yep, they found him.
On a depth of 102 msw (on air, ref: http://dahab-gossip.blogspot.com/2010/02/missing-diver-in-sharm.html.
Hello, yeah, I wanna have an egyptian instructor...who's got the CDWS-card somehow (I don't use the word 'corruption')....yeah, that's all we wanna have!
An egyptian instructor who is 'the MAN'...
....and never comes back!

Another lost court case

The CDWS tried to fuck up all the foreign dive centers with a rule....you need to employ at least 9 Egyptians for 1 foreign dive instructor. Well, think about the 80's. Who figured out that the Red Sea would be a nice dive location for Europeans?

The Egyptians?
The Bedouins?

Who was investing hard money?

The Egyptians?

The Bedouins?

Now, as the business is running, they want to take part (nothing against it)...but: Let's do our business, we'll give you business (drivers, camel guides, etc..)

But: Don't try to take over the infrastructure we built!

All the contacts to dive clubs in the UK, the NL, Germany, etc...who did it?

Think about....and now the CDWS (Chamber of descent wankers and suckers) wants to come and take it all....

At least, they lost this court case...you need only one Egyptian for one foreign instructor...

...seems like they figured out that they can't do it on their own.

Plz correct me, but I'm happy with an english or german or dutch instructor....I certainly wouldn't be happy with an egyptian one who's killing himself http://dahab-gossip.blogspot.com/2010/02/missing-diver-in-sharm.html

The CDWS and the money and the 1st class flights

As you all know, the CDWS had a stand on the german BOOT show. Ok, not so bad.
But: Do they need to spend the money the instructors paying here for their f**ing 1st class trip?
I don't think so.
We had a guy in the CDWS, he's supposed to deliver us all the copies and the receipts of the contracts...but...unluckily, he got caught...so: only an example:
Here are the copies of the flight tickets...only to Cairo.
Why the fucking hell do you need a 1st class flight from Hurghada to Cairo, this 60 mins flight should be ok in tourist class.
Remember: They are using the money of all the dive instructors in Egypt.
I don't think the instructors will be happy.
Here are the flight tickets: