Scuba diver ascending through sunlit blue water above a Red Sea reef

Kass A

We run the desk between the Nile Delta and the Red Sea drop-off - trip seats, tank fills, and the quiet work before you roll in.

Desk cityTanta
WaterRed Sea
Domaineg-kass-a.click
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A dive operation that starts inland on purpose

Most dive shops sell from the quay. Kass A sells from Saeed Street in Tanta Qism 2 - because many of the people who want Red Sea weeks are not already standing next to a compressor. We build calendars that survive Delta traffic, ferry windows, medical paperwork, and the honest moment when a skipper says the swell is wrong.

That inland posture changes the product. You do not get a laminated smile and a mystery boat. You get a named embarkation point, a certification match, kit sizes logged before you leave Gharbia, and a briefing that sounds like someone who has cancelled a day before.

Day boats Liveaboard seats OW -- DM track Wreck corridors Delta transfers

How the desk is built

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Routes kept open - written like working notes

We do not invent paradise. We keep a ledger of walls, wrecks, and offshore weeks that match real certification levels.

Reef wall with divers

Ras Mohammed - Shark & Yolanda

Wall drift with current etiquette. Yolanda debris as a navigation drill, not a backdrop for selfies. Park rules stay in the brief.

Drift18 -30 mAOW preferred
CorridorSouth Sinai
CodeRM-04
Best withTimed entry
Divers beside a wreck

SS Thistlegorm

1941 freighter on Sha - ab Ali. Holds full of bikes and trucks. Penetration only with briefed teams, redundant lights, and a guide who knows the exits.

Wreck24 -30 mWreck intro
CorridorSha - ab Ali
CodeTG-01
Best withCalm silt habit
Divers in deep blue water

Brother Islands

Seamounts in open blue. Hammerheads when season and luck align. Liveaboard only - day-boat bravado does not belong here.

OffshoreBlue water50+ dives
CorridorBrothers
CodeBR-2
Best withLiveaboard seat

Need the full ledger?

Depth habits, who each site is for, and which weeks we actually open.

Read all site notes
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How a Kass A week is assembled

Intake

Dates, card level, dive count, medical flags, kit sizes. We refuse vague - diving? - emails when we can get a usable brief.

Match

We place you on a corridor that fits - southern soft reefs, Sinai walls, wreck blocks, or offshore only if the logbook earns it.

Stage

Transfers out of Tanta when needed, scanned cards, and a confirmation that names the quay - not a vibe.

Splash

Boat brief, turn pressure twice, wildlife distance fixed. Guides keep the veto. You keep the logbook honest.

Pressure before poetry

Gas discipline and surface intervals beat brochure language. If the sea says no, the calendar moves.

Two guides when it matters

Open-water groups stay small enough that an instructor can see faces - not just fins.

Desk reply in a day

Typical response window to [email protected] or +20 40 331 2692 is one business day.

Field evidence

40 m

Recreational ceiling we brief unless a technical plan is explicitly arranged with the right team. Depth is not a personality trait.

2+Guides on OW groups
24 hDesk reply window
-Delta staging -- salt
3Core corridors we run
Divers silhouetted in underwater sunshafts
Divers entering from a rigid inflatable boat
Quay days on the Red Sea corridor
Buddy team underwater with light rays
Buddy checks that are not optional
Sea turtle swimming in clear blue water
Wildlife distance stays in the brief
- If the current is wrong, we wait. Egypt - s reefs will still be there tomorrow.
Kass A desk rule - Tanta
04

Three doors onto the calendar

TRIP WINDOW

Day boats & liveaboards

Sinai walls, wreck blocks, Marsa soft days, offshore weeks when your logbook is ready. Transport from the Delta on selected blocks.

Browse trip formats --
COURSE TRACK

Papers you earn in the water

Open Water through Divemaster. Theory can start in Tanta; checkouts move to salt when skills are clean - not when the calendar is merely convenient.

See the course ladder --
FIELD JOURNAL

Notes from desk and column

Why we brief turn pressure twice, how we talk about Thistlegorm without mythology, and what anthias weather means on a wall.

Read the journal --