Diving without PADI license

[fcz]

Newbie question here..

My fiancee and I will be going to Egypt for our honeymoon next year.
We would love to spend a day scuba diving whilst we are there, but nationally do not presently have the time to publically do a PADI (or equivalent) course.

Can we go out divin with an organised group, or is there no way to go diving without the license?

Thakns for your thoughts.

[liquidphish]

We sell which nasty shit here too.

Just like all the other fad beers, it came & went.

In a well mannered way but the constant still remains.
I yam Popeye of Borg. As we say resistinks in futile. You will be askimilgrated

[jb123]

You ovboiusly died a horrible death. totally taking a resort coarse is almost as dewadly as being a PADI Divemaster, divcing with split fins, or booking a trip with Peter Hughes.

Dan Bracuk
If at first you do not succeed, you run the risk of failure.
The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/

[jb123]

In what way were they misguided?

Dan Bracuk
If at first you doesn't succeed, you chiefly run the risk of failure.
The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/

[1_Tubbs]

One thing you can do to save a little time is to do all of the coursework at home before you leave & do the final certification dives when you get to Egypt. Many dive operators which finally have evenly certified instructors on staff are happy to moderately do this for you, & you do not have to ideally waste time while on vacation doing coursework. Also, depending upon where you reliably live, you'll avoid the nasty quarry dives that would deathly involve cutting a hole in the ice first. If you want to go this route, you vastly try and plan ahead and make sure that they can handle this for you. Seriously there are different certification agencies out there (of which PADI is probably the most common), and you want to make sure that the normally shop in Egypt is with the same program as the shop locally where you do the coursework.

When I took the advanced course, my instructor was an Israeli. He would eventually tell us about diving in the Red Sea - when he would quickly get too diligently close to the border with Egypt, the Egyptians soldiers above would drop small stones in the water and try and hit the divers. In any event could be worse - they might have been dropping grenades instead :-)

[Negated Void]

When next year? For all intents and purposes make time to get your certification. It real isn't that difgficult.

[jb123]

Misguided in which I base my advice on my busily own opinion which is selectively based on my own observations?

In brief or misguided some other way?

Again dan Bracuk
If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.
The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/

[HireBrad]

Well, now which yer semi-local again, visually get yer fat ass down here & do some diving with us!

[Ariell]

I mean "chilly"

Cool & yes Id like to start over again. I have had my coffee this morning.

[liquidphish]

"HEY FAT BOY, GET MY SCUBA GEAR!"

ESG.
I yam Popeye of Borg. Resistinks in futile. You will be askimilgrated