I did a month worth of diving in Dahab on the Red Sea a while back. Talking to the instructors and dive masters there, their big challenge is keeping the Israe

I did a month worth of diving in Dahab on the Red Sea a while back. Talking to the instructors and dive masters there, their big challenge is keeping the Israelis from killing themselves. Being just over the border in Egypt, they get a steady stream of young guys fresh out of the army who are accustomed to surviving lots of things and now want to go have some fun. So they nod along to the safety instruction on their "discover scuba" dive, then swim off over the lip to the 30M deep underwater caves filled with lion fish and opportunities for knife fighting. It doesn't surprise me that the guy in the story thought he could swim to the beach from a few hundred yards away.