Quseir Experience

[ArthurGerla]

They aren't the real scubapro fins. Jet fins look like this:

 

[Tjack]

I had similar experiences with currents off Elfenstone and local dives in the Marsa Alam area. On the inshore reef we were told we would be doing a drift and ended up swimming up current following the guide. We were told that this was an unusual direction for the current to be running, sounds familiar from the previous post. At Elfenstone we encountered strong currents again the guides swam up current first dive. Second dive the group mutinied and drifted down current along the west side of Elfenstone which was a great dive. Either the currents in this region are highly variable or there is a lack of understanding by the DMs? It seemed to me that the local DMs and Captains may not be very good at judging currents. Judging current is tricky but competent outfits which deal with lots of drift diving as in Cozamel and Fiji seem to get it right 90% of the time.