CAIRO - Egypt's Chamber of Diving Tourism and Marine Activities has introduced fundamental changes into tests for professional diving, which qualify divers to get a licence to professionally practise diving. According to the latest changes, the exam will be conducted in 10 different languages, Managing Director of the chamber Ziad Basel has said. He added that the chamber continued its policy to support the training activities and raise the efficiency of Egyptian divers, who are now around 2400 divers. “We pay special attention to their physical, technical and cultural levels so as to guarantee the safety of tourist groups whom they accompany under water and reduce accidents caused by human errors to a minimum.” He stressed that the chamber has responded in early 2010 to the requests of divers applying for tests to adopt the French language and add it to Arabic, English, German, Italian and Russian languages, which have been previously approved. The chamber has also introduced more changes for 2011, adding Polish, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and Hungarian to the languages in which divers can have their exams. This brings the total languages adopted for the licensing tests to 10 foreign languages, in addition to Arabic.
