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A sad day

Posted at 6:11 AM on 4/25/2006

I met my wife in Dahab and in Dahab I learned to dive.

I arrived to Dahab with my heart broken after a collection of cold winters in Europe. Dahab open their arms to me, to my future, to the option of a future, the the infinite depth of the Red Sea.

I was happy in Dahab, in Dahab I learn the simple pleasures of life, I learned that the dessert brings peace and in Dahab I made some of the most honest friends I ever met.

Last night, my friends in Dahab, the Bedouins and all workers in Dahab were attacked by a bomb that destroyed the pefect balance of a place like no other.

When I left Dahab, someone told me that I could find places similars around the world, I travel to Thailand searching for another Dahab... but it was impossible. Dahab was only one, and today... it will never be the same.

I just hanged the phone after making a quick called to my ex dive center. Everyone is ok, the bomb was just 30 meters, in the same place where I had icecream with Rebecca, where I went with divemasters and instructors, where I had my first lunch the day that I became an open water diver.

Dahab is now cover in blood.... what's next?

I"m so sorry...

Posted by BlowinBubbles at 6:06 PM on 4/25/2006

That is sad. I was wondering why the site was down. I can see how this has effected you and that makes me sad. It is tragic what is happening in our world. The places that we go to seek relaxation or new experiences are being targeted for that very reason. The Americans and Aussies and Europeons are just not safe right now....anywhere. Isn't that so sad??? Because the terrorists bomb these places to target the tourists...Bali and Dahab, etc. Yet it's the people like the Bedouins, that make their lives and raise their childrent there, that suffer the worst and long lived consequences of such brutal and senseless violence. I'm happy that you and your Rebecca and Sebastian are safe, as well as your friends from the dive center. Peace... Hilary

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Posted by seasqirt at 4:19 PM on 4/26/2006

dahab is certainly a special place, to all who have ever experienced the warmth, kindness and peace that has always been dahab, its true, there is no where else like it, no murdering terrorist scum will ever change that.

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Posted by rickydazla at 2:20 AM on 5/3/2006

When I was about 12 I went snorkelling for the first time at a place called the Blue Hole. Then I did a discover scuba dive. That was 16 years ago.

The Red Sea, like Belfast, will always be a place where there are troubles. Unfortunately that's just the way it is.

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