Red Sea- Past & Present

Howard Rosenstein · Issue 65, Mar/Apr 2012 · pp. 66–69

Products mentioned: Fantasea Line liveaboard, Red Sea Divers

The first anniversary of the events at Cairo’s Tahrir square and the political and security Tsunami it unleashed raises concerns and questions about the future of Red Sea Diving tourism. How will a fundamentalist regime in Egypt look at a water sports and tourism industry so clearly generated and influenced by western culture and sense of freedom. At the same time no less relevant is the significant upsurge of lawlessness and terror acts in Egypt in general and the Sinai in particular, especially in the eastern regions along the Israeli border but also along the eastern shoreline running from Taba to Sharem where the tourism industry and resorts are located. Equally troubling is the apparent inability of the Egyptian government and security apparatus to quell or control the situation. The Sinai Red Sea shore we know and enjoy as one of the world’s favorite dive travel destinations is a r…