Environmental Awareness Course for Diving and Water Sports Centers
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A message to all who care for our Red Sea,
The oceans need our help urgently. With a fifth of the world’s coral reef systems lost due to warming ocean temperatures and ocean acidification from chemicals; with almost 49% of the global marine vertebrate populations in decline because of unsustainable fishing and plastic pollution; with approximately 75% of the world’s commercial fish population such as Tuna and Mackerel have been lost due to overfishing; our marine ecosystem is fighting to survive the challenges we are causing. The marine ecosystems are resilient, and they are fighting all the threats they face, but they won’t be able to survive if we keep adding pressure from our sector.
The biodiversity of the Red Sea is part of a unique, relatively healthy, and rich ecosystem. In 2019, the Egyptian Red Sea was voted the second-best diving destination, we are expecting a boom in tourism and traffic in our sector in the coming years. Our sector works directly in contact with the Red Sea, we take tourists to swim in it, we teach and guide tourists to dive in it, and travel on boats to visit our favorite dive spots. The way we work can impact the health of our wonderful sea in either a positive or a negative way, depending on the practices we apply. The health of our coral reefs and the marine ecosystem is in our hands. If we don’t properly care for it, we will lose the colorful corals and numerous fish species we have; the tourists will complain and stop returning to Egypt and we will have lost one of the remaining healthy marine ecosystems in the world.
Starting at the beginning of October 2020, the Chamber of Diving and Water Sports launched environmental awareness courses for our sector. The environmental awareness course is designed to raise awareness and refresh the good environmental practices in our sector. It will also explain why and how to reduce a center’s, a boat’s, or a pro’s negative impact on the Red Sea environment. This course is obligatory for all staff members, technical managers, and boat crew of a center in both the South Sinai and the Red Sea Governorates. A schedule will be created to ensure that all diving, snorkeling, and water sports centers in those areas will have taken the course.
Requirement:
- This course is eligible for the CDWS members only who are licensed by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiques. Registration must be done by the technical manager or the legal representative of the operation, individual registrations will be disregarded.
- Targeted categories are Admins, assistants, drivers’ staff, as well as diving and snorkeling professionals, kitesurfers, and windsurfers (Also apply to those who obtained safari cards).
- The course material is in Arabic language.
Course registration:
Instruction:
- The course is done in one day for a duration of 4 hours.
- The fee for the training program is 1200 EGP for each operation, to be paid online, through the technical manager's or legal representative's account on the CDWS portal.
- If the operation doesn’t register all its employees for the session by the end of the designated period, the operation will be suspended from work, according to Article No. 26 of Law No. 27 of the year 2023. The sanctions will be imposed on the technical manager.
- The CDWS card for - either any admin post working for the operation or diving and snorkeling professionals - will not be renewed or issued to those who haven’t attended the course after the end of the given time period.
- Administrative and assisting jobs (desk, tank boys, drivers) must be committed to issuing this card that indicates their attendance before the end of the announced deadline, taking into consideration that the employee cards will not be renewed or issued after the deadline prior to their attendance to the course.
- Once the deadline has passed, technical managers will not be allowed to hire any employee who does not hold a valid CDWS card to perform any activity.
Rules And Reg.:
- Evening session, all attendees must be there half an hour before registering.
- In case of a no-show after the applicant’s course registration, the course will be considered as the applicant's first course, and in case he/she would like to attend the next scheduled course, new registration and new course fee should be done, and paid prior to attending the next course.
- In case the applicants do not wish to participate in the training program for any reason, they should report to the training department at least 48 hours before the beginning of training so the fees can be refunded or moved over to another date if they fail to report within this time frame there will be no refund for the training fees.
- Course attendance will be canceled for applicants who are not punctual.
- No mobile phones are allowed during the training, please put it on silent mode and hand it to the lecturer
- The lecturer has the right to cancel the applicant's participation in the course in case of not comply with the lecturer’s instructions
- It is not allowed to leave the training venue for any reason
- No Smoking allowed inside the training room
- No food or drinks are allowed inside the training room during the course except for water.
- For both South Sinai and Red Sea Governorates, the course will take place in the operations lodging.