PADI Scuba Diver Course — Hurghada

The PADI Scuba Diver rating is the answer to a very common holiday problem: you want a real certification, not just a taster dive, but you do not have three days to spare. This course compresses the essentials into two days and leaves you with a genuine lifetime PADI card.

Day one covers the first sections of PADI dive theory — how pressure affects the body, how to plan a safe dive, how the equipment works — plus confined-water training in calm, shallow conditions where you master the core skills: clearing your mask, recovering your regulator, controlling your buoyancy. Day two takes you to the reef for two open-water training dives with your instructor, putting the skills to work over genuine Red Sea coral gardens.

The certification you earn qualifies you to dive worldwide to 12 metres under the direct supervision of a PADI professional — which in practice covers most guided holiday diving. Better still, everything counts forward: whenever you are ready, in Hurghada or anywhere on earth, the remaining theory sections and two more training dives upgrade you to the full Open Water Diver rating with no repeated work.

The minimum age is 10 (junior rating applies until 15), you should be able to swim and be in normal good health, and a standard medical statement is completed before training. All equipment, course materials and the PADI certification fee are included, along with lunch and drinks on the training days and transfers within Hurghada.