Egypt: Day 4

In a morning we leant that the injured diver had been flown to Cairo for an operation. An interesting fact about this place was that banks are only open from 11 am till 2pm and from 6pm until 9pm. There was no way to change your money. And if you try/pay with dollars/euro – you’ll be screwed on the exchange rate for sure.

After day in Ros Mohamed – this time on another boat, which we liked a lot less. The dives were still good and gorgeous though. We also got to see some tech divers that went down with twinsets and two other tanks with 40% and 80% nitrox for speedy deco. When we got back to the dive center, it turned out that that injured diver, the poor guy, was still at the Sharm airport waiting for the plane. Apparently amount of bureaucracy here is so high that they could not get all the permissions for clearing the plane to fly from Cairo to pick this guy up there for an operation. Once again, ascent arm-close to the reef, Zodiac drivers are muppets. Another interesting fact was that this reckless Zodiac driver that caused the injury was detained by local police on the charge of murder attempt. And they also wanted this driver to sign the paper stating that he was deliberately trying to kill that diver… What a weird country… The evening finished in a fine Egyptian restaurant with some of the traditional food and bread that was cooked by three women in a traditional oven right in front of the restaurant's entrance.