PADI Drift Diver Specialty Course
PADI Drift Diver Course in Hurghada
Learn to love the current: four drift dives over two days teach buoyancy control, navigation and communication while flying along Hurghada's reef walls — the most effortless and exhilarating way to dive the Red Sea.
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Drift diving is the closest thing underwater to flying: you stop swimming, the current takes over, and the reef streams past like scenery from a train window. Around Hurghada — where tidal water funnels between islands and along marine-park walls — drifting is not just a technique but the natural way to dive many of the best sites. This two-day, four-dive specialty teaches you to do it with complete confidence.
You learn how currents work and how to read them from the surface and underwater; how to make smooth negative or controlled entries from a moving boat; how to stay effortlessly neutral while the water carries you; how to stay together as a buddy team and communicate with the boat using a surface marker buoy; and what to do when the current changes direction or speed mid-dive. Each of the four dives adds a layer, from a gentle first drift over a coral garden to a proper wall drift where eagle rays and turtles often share the ride.
The minimum age is 12 and the prerequisite is an entry-level certification (Open Water Diver or equivalent). Equipment, PADI materials, the certification fee, lunches on board and Hurghada hotel transfers are included. Divers who complete this course consistently say the same thing afterwards: the sites they used to find intimidating became their favourites.
Highlights
What's Included
- Full dive equipment
- PADI instructor & course materials
- PADI certification fee
- Lunch, coffee, tea, water & soft drinks on board
- Free hotel transfer from/to all hotels within Hurghada
- Dive Safe Package — medical care from licensed physicians before, during and after your trip — and a fitness check before you dive whenever you would like one. No extra cost.
Not Included
- Marine park entrance fee (€5 per person per day)
- Hotel transfer for Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh & El Gouna: €20 per day per car
Dive Safe Package — medical care is on us
Diving with us includes medical care from licensed physicians — before your dive, on the day, and after your trip has ended. If anything comes up once you are back at your hotel, you are still ours to look after: call us and we arrange the doctor, at no extra cost.
A dive medical fitness check before you get in the water is entirely up to you. Some divers simply like the reassurance — say the word and we arrange it with a licensed physician at no extra cost, whenever suits you. And if the physician advises against diving, we refund your booking in full.
This is the whole price
The PADI certification fee is already inside the price above — along with your equipment, instructor and course materials. Worth checking before you compare: some dive centres quote the course on its own and add the manual and certification at the desk, typically €90–€130. Others include it, as we do. So compare what each price covers, not just the number.
What is genuinely not included is listed above, in full — nothing else is added at the boat.
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Dive sites in this area
Reefs this trip may visit. The captain chooses each day's sites by wind, current and conditions on the morning — so treat this as the area, not a schedule.
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