Hi guys,
I am new to Jedda and KSA, not to diving... I find this place very frustrating and absolutely not organized so I wanted to post this thread to see if I am wrong or not. I have quite an experience in scuba including my own dive operation in the South Pacific. I came to KSA happy to go and see the Red Sea but... those are the problems i find out...
1- only weeekend and always fully booked, clearly showning the demand being much bigger than the offer
2- if you are alone and cannot book in advance you're grounded
3- as trips are organized for big groups of different skills, operators tand to bring divers to easy places that are not es spectacular as I expected to be.
3- some operators do not have even a website and to get the contact you have to work hard
4- Al Lith will be off limit if you are 1 or 2 people only
5- Yanbu as Jeddah only in the weekend and probably in those shallow easy dives making it not worthed to drive up (from JED)...
it's enuff for now but honestly speaking I am very disappointed, I don see a way for me to explore the places I wanted to...
I brought people in one the of the top places in the world when it has been my turn to guide guys, no matter how many they wrere, 1, 2 or more... and the price was not astronimic like they do here...
I am new to Jedda and KSA, not to diving... I find this place very frustrating and absolutely not organized so I wanted to post this thread to see if I am wrong or not. I have quite an experience in scuba including my own dive operation in the South Pacific. I came to KSA happy to go and see the Red Sea but... those are the problems i find out...
1- only weeekend and always fully booked, clearly showning the demand being much bigger than the offer
2- if you are alone and cannot book in advance you're grounded
3- as trips are organized for big groups of different skills, operators tand to bring divers to easy places that are not es spectacular as I expected to be.
3- some operators do not have even a website and to get the contact you have to work hard
4- Al Lith will be off limit if you are 1 or 2 people only
5- Yanbu as Jeddah only in the weekend and probably in those shallow easy dives making it not worthed to drive up (from JED)...
it's enuff for now but honestly speaking I am very disappointed, I don see a way for me to explore the places I wanted to...
I brought people in one the of the top places in the world when it has been my turn to guide guys, no matter how many they wrere, 1, 2 or more... and the price was not astronimic like they do here...