Premium PADI, SSI & SDI diving center in Hurghada, Red Sea. 1:1 private lessons, all-inclusive packages, eco-conscious diving on the world’s most colourful reefs.
Azure Diving Club was started by Ahmed Rashid, a Hurghada-born instructor who'd spent the previous decade guiding boats up and down the Red Sea for other operators. He was tired of one thing in particular: 12-diver groups.
So he opened a dive shop with a different rule. Maximum four students per instructor. Often 1:1. Same instructor every day of your trip. No upselling, no hidden fees, no rushing through certifications. The kind of dive shop he himself would book on holiday.
15 years later, the rule still holds. We're still small, still independent, still in Hurghada. The team has grown to five full-time instructors and the boats from one to two. Everything else is exactly the same.
Ahmed Rashid opens Azure Diving Club with a single boat and a refusal to run 12-divers-per-instructor groups.
Awarded PADI 5-Star Dive Centre status. SSI and SDI affiliations follow.
Senior instructor Lena Fischer relocates from Munich. The "nervous beginner" program is born.
Opens the Makadi Bay base for resort-based guests. Two boats now.
Yara Mansour joins, launching the marine-life library and dugong/turtle program.
Over twelve thousand divers certified or guided. Still no panic moments. Still small groups.
Maximum 1:4 student-to-instructor ratio. Often 1:1 or 1:2. We’d rather turn a booking away than dilute the experience.
We don’t feed fish, we don’t touch coral, we don’t chase wildlife. Reef-safe sunscreen on every boat.
No hidden fees, no surprise add-ons. The number on the website is the number you pay.
O₂ on every boat. EFR-current instructors. Conservative profiles. Insurance for every diver.
Born and raised in Hurghada, Ahmed founded Azure Diving Club in 2009 after a decade of guiding boats up and down the Red Sea. He has personally certified over 3,000 divers and runs the technical diving program at DiveRED. When he's not teaching, he's almost certainly fixing a regulator.
Lena moved to Hurghada from Munich in 2016 with the express intent of never wearing a winter coat again. She is our nervous-beginner whisperer — if you're scared of the deep end of a swimming pool, ask for Lena. She's run Discover Scuba for over 1,500 first-timers and not lost one yet.
Marco came to Hurghada from Sicily with a Nikon and never went back. He runs our photo/video add-on package and shoots more dives in a year than most people log in a lifetime. Take an Advanced course with him and you'll come home with a portfolio.
Yara joined the team in 2020 after finishing her marine biology master's in Alexandria. She runs our marine-life briefings, leads the dugong and turtle dives, and is the reason DiveRED has a serious eco-conscious diving program. If you want to know what something is, ask Yara — and prepare to learn its life story.
Karim is the calm one. The Rescue course at DiveRED is built around his unflappable, scenario-driven teaching style — he's the instructor who can simulate a panicked diver so convincingly you forget it's a drill. Twelve years of teaching and zero panic moments of his own.
No deposit, no pressure. Just message us on WhatsApp and we'll plan something good.