This makes me so sad. I also learned to dive in Dahab-- did OW & AOW there a couple years ago. The only reason I even found myself there in the first place is because of a conversation I had with a guy when I was living in China. This fellow had been lucky enough to see many many many places in the world in his life, and I asked him if he had a favorite. Without hesitating he said Dahab and told me some stories about what it was like there years ago. So later I found myself living in europe, and picked up a cheap RT ticket to Cairo for about $200. I took a two week holiday, spent three exhausting days in Cairo and planned to travel further up the Nile when I remembered this guy's stories. So I got a bus ticket and off I went to the sinai. I recall the sand blowing so hard at some points during the ride I couldn't even see the road below the bus as I looked out the window. I had no thoughts about diving prior to going there, but seated next to me on the bus was a scuba instructor. Of course when we got to Dahab he became MY scuba instructor. Now all I want to do is dive. These types of attacks are just sick, and even more so for being so pointless. As an american I grew up with the vague notion that things were more chaotic "out there" and it didn't really mean anything to me after a while to read about another bomb in northern Ireland or Israel or.... Then they blew up a truck outside the Sari Club in Bali not long after I'd been sat there drinking a beer, and it finally struck home for me. The shock of reading the headlines is worse when you can illustrate them with your own memories I think. My heart goes out to all the good people in Egypt.
