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Dive guides and instructors across Egypt The first series of exams saw 142 dive staff
are sitting new exams as part of a drive by working in the South Sinai resort of Dahab
the CDWS to ensure professionals meet achieving an impressive 100 per cent pass
minimum scuba knowledge standards rate.
required. All diving professionals who wish
to renew or begin CDWS membership and
Exam papers are available in Arabic,
obtain the required card must complete
English, Italian, German and Russian. Those
and achieve a minimum 80 per cent pass.
candidates applying for cards as snorkel
Developed by the CDWS technical team and
guides or snorkel instructors take a separate
instructor trainers, the exams consist of 75
exam available in English and Arabic.
questions covering general knowledge of: Results are posted on the www.cdws.travel
leadership, physics, physiology, first aid and website within 48 hours of the exam along
emergency, equipment and environmental with the date staff can collect their CDWS
awareness. There is nothing in the exam cards.
which is not covered in CDWS-recognised
That’s show business
For more information about Golden
Dolphin, see www.goldendolphin.ru.
CDWS and its members will once again be
The first event of the 2010 dive show
exhibiting at all the major diving industry
calendar will be the Paris International Dive
shows in 2010, including France, Germany,
Show in France, from 15 to 18 January.
Russia and the UK. Specially translated
CDWS participants at this event include:
versions of BLUE will be available in German
Nesima Resort, Camel Dive Club and Coraya
for show visitors at this year’s Boot Show,
Divers and Sea World Diving.
running between 23 and 31 January in
Dusseldorf. CDWS members participating *The CDWS stand in the Red Sea Zone
at this event include: Nesima Resort, Shark’s of the UK Dive 09 show held at the
Bay Umbi Diving Village, Coraya Divers, Ilios Birmingham National Exhibition Centre
Dive Club, Coraya Divers, Sea Serpent Fleet, attracted huge crowds of British divers
Sea Queen Fleet, Aquarius Diving Club and looking for information and prices for diving
Camel Dive Club. holidays in Egypt on 24 and 25 October
2009. Congratulations to Russell Wagstaff
For more information about Boot 2010, see
from Oxfordshire in the UK who was named
www.boot.de.
winner of the show prize donated by Sea
There will also be a specially printed Russian Queen Fleet. He wins a Sea Queen liveboard
version of BLUE free to show goers at the trip for two in the northern Red Sea worth
Golden Dolphin Show in Moscow 700 Euros.
CDWS members participating at the * CDWS also exhibited at the 2009 World
Moscow event include: Camel Dive Club, Travel Market (WTM) show in the UK to help
Aquarius Diving Club, Sea Serpent Fleet, raise the profile of diving in the Red Sea and
Coral Diving Club, Flowers of Sinai, Red Sea the moves being made to improve safety
Safaris and Sinai Dive Club. and service standards.
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