Nationality:
Finnish
Spoken Languages:
Finnish, Swedish, English, German
Job Title:
General manager
Experience:
Dive center manager and the only real “Photo-Tek-Diving-Inspiration-Dude” in the world -according to himself. He is the founder of the "puffer-fish reaction". Kimmos’ long time staff call him as "kaikkien oravien äiti". All staff can recognize when he is approaching the dive center by the roar of his bikes’ engine.
Hobbies:
Photography & Riding his Harley Davidson and KTM's
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Nationality:
Swedish
Spoken Languages:
Swedish, English and a little bit Arabic
Job Title:
Office
Experience:
"Monster Malin" has been working with Sweden's biggest tour operator for many years but she could not resist the temptation to work with Colona. The persons she miss most from home in Sweden is Bobo, Bella, Elias, Erik and Matilda. She also loves Fazer Blue Chocolate.
Hobbies:
Travelling
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Nationality:
Swedish
Spoken Languages:
Swedish, English and a little bit of Arabic and Spanish
Job Title:
DIVEMASTER
Experience:
Elin came to Egypt to make her courses up til Divemaster level with us. She fell in love with the Red Sea and the lifestyle in Egypt. She is working as a Divemaster with us for 2,5 years & is also representing us on most our info meetings.
Hobbies:
Sports and travelling
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Nationality:
Finnish
Spoken Languages:
Finnish and English
Job Title:
Shop responsible
Experience:
Hanna will answer your phone calls when you want to book diving or snorkelling, and also be selling you all our nice items from our Colona shop. Before she came to us she was working in a pet shop in Finland. No need to say that she loves animals….
Hobbies:
Horseback riding & Photographing
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Nationality:
Finnish & Swedish
Spoken Languages:
Finnish, Swedish & English
Job Title:
Instructor/office
Experience:
Hobbies:
Tattoos, technical diving, animals
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Nationality:
Polish
Spoken Languages:
Polish, English, German and tries to learn Italian
Job Title:
Instructor/operations
Experience:
Dorota is one of our technicalinstructors and operation person. She has been with us for quite long time now (is it 7 years now!?). She is tech instructor (GUE T1 and Instructor Trainer) and GUE T2 diver so she also takes care for tech diving in Colona. You can meet her around the dive center or enjoying the silence deep underwater (after all that haste in the dive center).
Hobbies:
Diving and ... dive exploration.
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Nationality:
Polish
Spoken Languages:
Polish, English, French and some German
Job Title:
Instructor/tech diving responsible
Experience:
Bart is one of our Polish instructors. He is also tech instructor (GUE Fundamentals Instructor and IANTD) and tech guide (holds GUE T2 rating). In the dive center his domain is technical diving and workshop. So if you do not see him hanging around with his tea cup, he is probably on the boat guiding tech divers or in the workshop trying to put together all the valves, regs and tanks.
Hobbies:
Water-sports and running
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Nationality:
Polish
Spoken Languages:
Polish, English & some Swedish
Job Title:
Divemaster
Experience:
She started the adventure with diving some time ago with Colona – she did her Open Water course here. And she was a totally different Alicja then. Now she is a reliable Divemaster and experienced diver. She has an ability to avoid photographers (it is difficult to get her on a picture ) but she likes to take photos herself (also underwater especially of nudibranches). She is just another example of a big heart behind small posture.
Hobbies:
Diving, UW/land photography and Geology
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic, English and German
Job Title:
Local manager
Experience:
He is a divemaster with a lot of safari guiding experience. Nowadays he is not diving that much so you can see him hanging around the dive center or in town while fixing some things. Aymen sometimes dresses in very colorful clothes to make all the people happy. These days he is a grown up and married man..(?!)
Hobbies:
Diving
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic, English and French
Job Title:
Instructor
Experience:
Friendly and professional instructor who has lots of experience in safaris and guiding daily trips (not only in Egypt). Usually you can recognize him by is loud “goooood mornings” and wide smile. He speaks English, French and Arabic. Now he is more than happy since he became a father for the first time, a daughter, Salma.
Hobbies:
Diving
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Italian and some Swedish
Job Title:
Snorkel guide
Experience:
Snorkel guide who likes to dance for the guests on the boat, especially if there are pretty girls amongst the guests. We just celebrated his 75th birthday , so now he is the oldest snorkel guide in the world. Almost antique! But he is one of the most experienced snorkel guides – so only Atef can beat him.
Hobbies:
Snorkelling and free diving
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic, English, German and some Italian
Job Title:
Snorkel guide
Experience:
Snorkel guide with a laugh that is very contagious. Often seen dancing with Nasser on the boats. But because he is not at his age he wins most of the time With his dedication to work he is one of the best snorkel guides (along with Nasser) and gives over his experience to the new staff.
Hobbies:
Working out at the gym
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Nationality:
Polish
Spoken Languages:
Polish, English & Norwegian
Job Title:
Instructor
Experience:
Kacper visited us in Colona last summer as a guest and after a short break and becoming an Instructor, he came back - this time for work. He is originally from Poland, but living in Norway he speaks also Norwegian. He is an enthusiastic diver & instructor... and we believe that he is the youngest on in our dive center now :)
Hobbies:
diving & photography
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Nationality:
Polish
Spoken Languages:
Polish, English
Job Title:
Instructor
Experience:
Tomek was working in a bicycle shop until he decided to change his lifestyle and moved to Egypt with his wife Gosia... and his bike:) Now he is working with us as dive instructor and in free time he is exploring Hurghada by bike. He is also known for self-improved dive gear... check out his equipment - for sure you will find some interesting stuff.
Hobbies:
diving, bicycling and photography
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Nationality:
Polish
Spoken Languages:
Polish, English
Job Title:
Instructor
Experience:
Gosia is our new Polish instructor that moved to Egypt with her husband Tomek. In Poland she was working on one of the biggest dive shops in Warsaw. But bored with the grey skies she came to us to enjoy blue seas. The only thing she misses she says are trees behind her apartment window:)Welcome and good luck
Hobbies:
diving & reading (especially thick books:))
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Nationality:
Finnish
Spoken Languages:
Finnish and English
Job Title:
Instructor
Experience:
Anu has many years of experience in diving and has been living in Thailand for a long time. She has been visiting Egypt couple of times, on diving holidays and decided finally that it was time to spend even more time in the great waters of the Red Sea.
Hobbies:
Movies, reading
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Nationality:
Finnish
Spoken Languages:
Finnish and English
Job Title:
Snorkelguide
Experience:
Elina has been working as a fitness instructor and has been traveling a lot along with her work. She is now happy to have found a place to finally settle down. We are happy that she has decided to stay here with us and make our guests leave the boat with a smile on their face!
Hobbies:
Music, dancing, diving
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Nationality:
Swedish
Spoken Languages:
Swedish & English
Job Title:
Divemaster
Experience:
Anton came here for a holiday to do his Divemaster course with us.. He barely had time to finish it, when we needed him to start working for us. Now we/Anton have decided that he will stay with us :-)
Hobbies:
Gym
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Nationality:
Swedish
Spoken Languages:
Swedish & English
Job Title:
Instructor
Experience:
Has been working in Thailand and is also an educated Environmental Engineer, but that work will have to wait, because he is enjoying his current job too much. He was discovered in Thailand by our old Instructor Milla, who brought him here with her.
Hobbies:
Brazilian jiujutsu, pool
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic, English
Job Title:
Snorkel guide
Experience:
Ameer came to us some months ago as free lancer snorkel guide. But after some time he started to like this work so much so he decided to stay with us at Colona. He is studying tourism in one of the Hurghada high schools so probably on all his off days he is preparing for the exams there:)
Hobbies:
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Nationality:
Finnish
Spoken Languages:
Finnish, English & German
Job Title:
Instructor
Experience:
Jukka is our new Finish speaking instructor that started with Colona this summer. And he started well off - with lots of finish courses:) He was traveling around the world for quite long, but now he is thinking of settling down for a while in Egypt. Welcome to the team!
Hobbies:
traveling & diving
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic, English and some Italian
Job Title:
Pick up responsible
Experience:
Now he works as our main pick-up man dealing with cars, buses, times and schedules for taking you from the hotels. He is the one that normally shouts in the afternoon: “Pick up hooooooome to all the hotels” But he is also a private body guard for us here ...quite an easy job when you are the holder of championship in black belt karate!
Hobbies:
Karate
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic and English
Job Title:
Compressor operator
Experience:
Compressor room is where he works. So all tanks – small, big, yellow, silver is filled by his hands (along with Naga). He also takes care for our furry fellow Roger. Hamdi is also an excellent teacher in exotic words of Arabic.
Hobbies:
Meeting friends, relaxing and enjoying nice food
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic and English
Job Title:
Compressor operator
Experience:
He, along with Hamdi, fills our tanks at Colona. His nickname is El Nahel (The Thin One)– and those who know him will surely understand why But his most unusual ability is to remote-control Roger. You will not believe that unless you see it .
Hobbies:
Football
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Nationality:
Egyptian
Spoken Languages:
Arabic
Job Title:
Dive center maintenance
Experience:
Ali is our friendly new colleague that is making sure the diving center is clean and shining. He is the son of Hamdi’s brother (another family member to the Ayman team). He doesn’t speak so much english….yet….
Hobbies:
Football
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Nationality:
Local breed
Spoken Languages:
Hard to say...
Job Title:
Logistics operator
Experience:
This is our new donkey (replacing Roger after he went on pension at the farm). Roger Jr is an extremely smart and clever donkey. He also makes sure it is some action at the diving center. He loves carrots, apples and actually eats almost everything.
Hobbies:
Eating carrots
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Spoken Languages:
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Experience:
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