Come and meet our friendly and experienced staff members. Together, they form Sharm’s best Tec Diving Team. You’ll be to delighted to find our Tec Diving Team are all Tec and Rebreather Instructors with agencies such as ANDI, IANTD, PADI and TDI. Join us as we check out their stories below…
MEET SHERIF KHAIRAT
Trimix OC and CCR Instructor
Sherif is a Full Trimix CCR Cave instructor. His machine of choice is the ISC Megalodon. It’s no surprise to hear that he’s the longest-standing Meg CCR Instructor in South Sinai. Also, he is teaching using ISC Pathfinder, JJ-CCR, APD Evolution, and SF-2. Normally, Sherif is running courses sanctioned by IANTD and TDI.
Sherif has been a tec diving instructor based in Egypt for many years. He has unbeaten experience of the tec diving sites of Sharm El Sheikh and the nearby areas. Sherif is a very experienced cave explorer, as well as teaching Closed Circuit and Open Circuit up to full Trimix, . Among his achievements, Sherif has located and mapped several new underwater cave systems in Egypt.
Languages: French, English, Arabic.
Meet Sherif, part of Sharm’s best Tec Diving and Rebreather Team
MEET ANDY AUCKLAND
Trimix Instructor Trainer OC and CCR
Andy is a Full Trimix CCR instructor. He’s the longest-standing JJ CCR Instructor in South Sinai. Accordingly, his machine of choice is JJ-CCR. He’s teaching using JJ-CCR, APD Evolution, Hollis Prism 2, ISC Megalodon, ISC Pathfinder, and SF-2. He mainly teaches TDI, and is an SDI and TDI Instructor Trainer, but also delivers IANTD, TDI, TecRec, SSI and ANDI courses.
He’s been a technical diving instructor since 2006 and has travelled extensively. Previously, he taught in Cyprus, The Canaries, Greece and the UK. He teaches both closed circuit and open circuit all the way up to full Exploration Trimix level. Andy’s passion is exploration of the overhead environment – he’s often found visiting wrecks and caves around Sharm. In the past, he expanded wreck penetration options on some World class wrecks such as the Zenobia in Cyprus. Later on, he became involved with teams locating and exploring new cave systems in Egypt. Andy is also a very experienced Technical Sidemount instructor, offering courses and equipment workshops.
Language: English
Meet Andy, part of Sharm’s best Tec Diving and Rebreather Team
MEET ANNA-MARIA
TDI OC and CCR Instructor and Advanced Mixed Gas CCR guide
Anna-Maria is a TDI Open-Circuit and Rebreather Instructor, teaching Intro to Tech, Advanced Nitrox, Decompression Procedures, Helitrox, Extended Range and Trimix. She’s also an Advanced Mixed Gas CCR guide and Inspiration Vision Instructor, and her weapon of choice is the AP Evolution rebreather. She’s also certified as a Hypoxic Trimix dive supervisor using AP, JJ and rEvo rebreathers.
Before moving to Egypt, Anna-Maria was comfortable diving in chilly Belgian waters, where she originally became a diving instructor. She’s a friendly and familiar face around Circle Divers, as she previously also worked as a recreational instructor at the centre.
Languages: English, French, German, Dutch
Meet A-M, part of Sharm’s best Tec Diving and Rebreather Team
MEET MOE AL MEHAIRBI
Trimix Rebreather Instructor
Moe is an Advanced Mixed Gas CCR instructor. He teaches CCR using SF-2, Defender, APD Evolution, ISC Megalodon, ISC Pathfinder, JJ-CCR, and Poseidon Se7en. Moe has been an instructor with PADI and TDI for several years.
Moe travelled extensively for many years, and decided to move to Egypt in late 2014. Before settling here, he gained experience diving in many different environments. He teaches closed circuit and open circuit tec diving, and is the Region’s specialist in Defender and SF-2 rebreathers.
Languages: English, Arabic
Meet Moe, part of Sharm’s best Tec Diving and Rebreather Team
Simply – the best Technical Diving Team in Sharm
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