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Abu Dabbab Diving Lodge

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3 Stars

All year round

5.5 Hours

Beginner, All

From £795

Abu Dabbab Diving Lodge

  • Natural location
  • Individual bookings and groups welcome
  • Small & intimate
  • Half board basis
  • 30 minutes from Elphinstone Reef
  • Blue Ocean Dive Centre on-site

Abu Dabbab Diving Lodge is located on a nature reserve beach north of Marsa Alam with its appealing blue waters, white sandy shore and house reef just a stone’s throw away from the resort. The resort has become the perfect place for those who are looking to spend the perfect holiday time with their beloved ones, while taking part in a wide range of fun-filled activities.

On the sandy beach, you will find a nice selection of food and beverage outlets and a range of oriental tents and bazaars most of them open between 08:00am and midnight. The beach is decked out with cabanas, deck chairs and bean bags for shelter, privacy and comfort as well as providing ample space for different kinds of ball games, entertainment, and group sessions.

This oasis-like resort has 62 wooden bungalows, each featuring large or twin beds, air conditioning, a mini-fridge, and a private bathroom.

The coral restaurant serves international buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner while the beach restaurants and bars serve a la carte food and drinks while chilling out after a hard day’s diving.

The Blue Ocean Dive Center is an authorized PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center located on Abu Dabbab Beach offering a spacious area for gearing up, equipment rinse, lockers, classrooms and a dive shop. Nitrox is available and the diving on offer include house reef diving, speedboat trips, free diving, daily boat trips and mini safaris.

At Abu Dabbab Bay, you will find two stunning house reefs. The south and the northern reefs separated by grassy meadows, a paradise for snorkelers and divers. Elphinstone Reef is only 30 minutes sailing by a modern speedboat from Abu Dabbab Beach. Blue Ocean speedboats are lined up to cruise to other fine offshore dive sites of Marsa Alam such as Um Halhala , the Garden Reef, Shaab Abu Dabbab I, Shaab Abu Dabbab II, Shaab Abu Dabbab III.

Board Basis

All inclusive Daily breakfast, lunch, dinner and selection of drinks
Package Price From £795 for 7 nights on all inclusive board basis, flights and airport transfers
Diving £230 for 5 days diving with 2 dives a day
Twin Room

Guest Room

The guest rooms at the lodge are chalet-style rooms, each with a double bed or twin beds, an en-suite bathroom and a private terrace.

  • Shower and W.C
  • Air conditioning
  • Satellite Channels
  • T.V.
  • Telephone

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Blue Ocean Dive Centre

Marsa Alam

The Blue Ocean Dive Centre is a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Dive Resort providing a full range of PADI dive education programs, a good equipment selection and a range of daily diving experiences while actively promoting aquatic environmental awareness.

This dive centre core ambition and mission is securing flawless service, constant quality and assuring excellent customer care. The multilingual team of guides and instructors dive the local and surrounding reefs with passion and will do everything they can to ensure you have a great diving adventure.

Blue Ocean Dive Center was established in 2005 at Abu Dabbab Beach, where you can wade straight into the ocean from the white sandy beach.

Diving Courses:

All courses include equipment and instructor services. Manuals and certification fees are not included and will be charged at the dive centre.

Please note that certificate and manual are excluded, EUR 70 extra charge.



PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

The Advanced Open Water Diver program gives you the opportunity to take your diving skill to the next level through three new areas of diving.
You complete your Deep Dive, Underwater Navigation Dive, Night Dive and two other dives for a total of five to attain your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

This certification includes five dives, including the Deep Diver, the Underwater Navigation Diver and three of the following: You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.

The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

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PADI Open Water Diver (Inc Equipment)

This is the most popular dive program in the world! And can be your chance to have a lifetime of intense adventures.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

Knowledge Development ( online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!

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PADI Free diver Instructor

Turn your free diving passion into a profession. This instructor course is for the avid free diver who spends a lot time thinking about free diving and sharing details of their latest adventures.

In the PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course, over a minimum of four days, during both classroom and in water sessions, you cover these key topics:

  • Learning and Instruction

  • Safety and Risk Management

  • Free diving Physiology

  • Organizing and Marketing Free Diver

  • Teaching Skills and Supervising Free divers

  • PADI Freediver course standards and procedures



In the PADI Freediver Instructor Orientation, which may be conducted in person or as a webinar over a few hours, you cover these key topics:

  • PADI Freediver course standards and procedures.

  • Organizing and Marketing Free diving.

  • In the program, there is also a Care for the Environment topic and a written final exam.



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