Sameh Sokar — Technical Diver

Red Sea · Dahab · Hurghada

SAMEHSOKAR

Explorer Educator Dive Operator

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Sameh Sokar

From Corporate
to Dive Operations

Sameh Sokar first breathed underwater in 1998 somewhere off the Red Sea coast. By 2004 he had walked away from a corporate career to do it full-time.

Twenty years later he runs two operations, holds instructor trainer status on six CCR platforms, and is one of two GUE Instructors in Egypt. His Red Sea — the one most divers never see — starts at 40 metres.

His peers include Pascal Bernabé, Ahmed Gabr, Tom Steiner, and Andrey Chistyakov. His students number in the hundreds.

Sameh Sokar

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First dive — Red Sea

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Dives logged

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Years professional

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CCR platforms — IT level

GUE Instructor ·CCR Instructor Trainer ·Technical Diving ·Cave Certified ·JJ-CCR ·AP Diving ·Divesoft ·rEvo hCCR ·TDI Examiner ·SSI XR IT ·Red Sea ·Dahab ·Hurghada ·Ghost Diving Egypt ·MV Legends ·Scuba Seekers ·GUE Instructor ·CCR Instructor Trainer ·Technical Diving ·Cave Certified ·JJ-CCR ·AP Diving ·Divesoft ·rEvo hCCR ·TDI Examiner ·SSI XR IT ·Red Sea ·Dahab ·Hurghada ·Ghost Diving Egypt ·MV Legends ·Scuba Seekers ·
Sameh Sokar — technical diving

The Explorer

Where Most
Divers Turn Back

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Cave & Cavern

GUE Cave certified. Freshwater and saltwater cave systems across the Red Sea and Sinai.

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Deep Technical

Support diver for world-class attempts past 100m. Extended trimix decompression profiles.

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Wreck Penetration

Full penetration of Thistlegorm, Dunraven, Carnatic — beyond recreational limits with stage support.

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Red Sea Exploration

Sites that never appear in dive brochures. Twenty years of local knowledge that no manual contains.

"The Red Sea that most divers experience is the preview. The real thing starts at 40 metres."
GUE Instructor ·CCR Instructor Trainer ·Technical Diving ·Cave Certified ·JJ-CCR ·AP Diving ·Divesoft ·rEvo hCCR ·TDI Examiner ·SSI XR IT ·Red Sea ·Dahab ·Hurghada ·Ghost Diving Egypt ·MV Legends ·Scuba Seekers ·GUE Instructor ·CCR Instructor Trainer ·Technical Diving ·Cave Certified ·JJ-CCR ·AP Diving ·Divesoft ·rEvo hCCR ·TDI Examiner ·SSI XR IT ·Red Sea ·Dahab ·Hurghada ·Ghost Diving Egypt ·MV Legends ·Scuba Seekers ·

Where can I help you progress?

The Educator

Sameh holds instructor or instructor trainer status across every major technical and rebreather platform active today — certified to teach anyone from their first open water course through to CCR instructor trainer level.

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Foundations

Start Diving

Open Water through Advanced and specialties. Recreational programmes built on the same rigorous principles as technical training.

SSITDIPADI
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Extended Range & Technical

Go Deeper

Technical diving, extended range, trimix, and decompression procedures. GUE methodology — the strictest standard in the industry.

GUE Tec 1TDI TrimixExtended Range
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Closed Circuit Rebreathers

Breathe Smarter

All major CCR platforms from intro to advanced levels. JJ-CCR, AP Diving, Divesoft backmount & sidemount, rEvo hCCR up to 100m.

JJ-CCRAP DivingDivesoftrEvo hCCR
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Instructor Development

Teach Others

Instructor and instructor trainer programmes across TDI, SSI XR, and all CCR platforms. Candidate-level to IT examiner.

TDI ITSSI XR ITCCR IT

Full credentials

What I
Can Teach.

GUE Fundamentals Instructor
GUE Recreational 3
GUE Technical 1
GUE CCR 1 & CCR 2
TDI IT & Examiner
SSI XR IT
PADI Staff Instructor
JJ-CCR IT
AP Diving IT
Divesoft IT
rEvo hCCR Instructor
IANTD IT

The Business

Two Operations.
One Standard.

Scuba Seekers — Dahab

Dahab · South Sinai

Scuba Seekers

Founded in 2004. One of the Red Sea's most technically advanced dive centres — boulevard location with direct house reef access. GUE · TDI · SSI XR · PADI. 38,000 Facebook followers.

Technical Training CCR Conservation Recreational
scubaseekers.com
MV Legends — Hurghada

Hurghada · Red Sea

MV Legends

Technical, CCR, and recreational safaris out of Hurghada. Refurbished 2019. Rebreather sets, 100+ stage cylinders. No time limits. Maximum 18 divers.

Tech & CCR Safaris Wreck Diving Max 18 Divers
mvlegends.com
Ghost Diving Egypt — marine conservation

Conservation

Ghost Diving
Egypt

In late 2018 Sameh founded the Egyptian chapter of Ghost Diving — the international operation that locates and removes abandoned fishing nets from reefs and wrecks. Ghost nets kill silently for years after the fisherman has moved on.

The Egypt chapter operates across the Gulf of Aqaba and Red Sea in collaboration with Ghost Diving Netherlands, Lebanon, and NARC. In January 2026, one dive, one afternoon: 60 kg of abandoned gill nets removed from Lagoona.

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0 Nets removed Jan 2026
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