Meet the Nemo Diving Center Team
PADI-certified instructors, dive masters, and boat crew across our Dubai and Fujairah branches - the people behind every dive.
PADI 5-STAR DIVE CENTER DUBAI & FUJAIRAH
PADI Instructor
Hussam Tarek
Hussam Tarek is an IDC Staff and Tec Instructor with 18 years of diving experience, including 14 years diving the waters of the UAE. His deep technical expertise and local knowledge make him a trusted mentor for both new instructors and advanced divers alike.
Mohab Abdelmegeed
Mohab Abdelmegeed brings 13 years of diving experience as a Tec Instructor Trainer, shaped by his work across the dive sites of Dahab and the UAE. He specializes in guiding divers through advanced technical training with a hands-on, mentorship-driven approach.
Galal Hassan
Galal Hassan is an MSDT and Tec Instructor with 12 years in the water, having built his career across Dahab, Fujairah, and Dubai. From the Red Sea to the Arabian Gulf, he's guided countless divers through their certifications with a calm, hands-on approach shaped by years of diverse diving conditions.
Viktoriia Kulichkova
PADI Instructor
Viktoriia Kulichkova is a Russian-speaking PADI Instructor who's worked across both Fujairah and Dubai. She has a real passion for underwater videography, capturing content that brings the deep to life for divers and non-divers alike.
Mostafa Gomaa
Mostafa Gomaa brings 17 years of diving experience across Fujairah and Dubai, with a deep love for sharks and everything that swims alongside them. Whether underwater or on the surface, he's all about spreading good vibes and making every dive an enjoyable experience.
Faris Elsafi
Faris Elsafi is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor based in Dubai, with 8 years of diving experience and 3 years teaching PADI courses. He's known for a patient, clear teaching style that helps first-time divers build confidence from their very first breath underwater.
Karim Alddin
Karim Alddin is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor teaching out of Fujairah, with 9 years of diving experience and 5 years guiding students through PADI certification courses along the East Coast's dive sites. He's passionate about introducing new divers to the underwater world with a calm, encouraging approach.
Dive Master
Khaled A Gaber
Dive Master
Khaled A Gaber is a Dive Master with 8 years of diving experience in the UAE, building his skills across the region's diverse dive sites. He brings a solid foundation in local diving conditions and a strong passion for helping others enjoy the underwater world.
Muhammed Fasil
Dive Master
Muhammed Fasil is a Dive Master with 2 years of experience diving in Fujairah. Alongside his diving skills, he has a real talent for videography, creating standout content both underwater and topside.
Ahmed Sergio
Dive Master
Ahmed Sergio has been diving since 2010, bringing 16 years of calm, steady expertise as a Dive Master to every dive. Beneath the surface he's a picture of composure, and topside he's always ready for a good laugh.
Boat Captain
Miki
Miki is a Boat Captain based in Fujairah, responsible for getting every group of divers safely to and from Nemo's dive sites. Fluent in English and Hindi, he brings a steady, experienced hand to every trip, keeping schedules on time and passengers comfortable on the water.
Rahul Amin
Boat Captain
Rahul Amin is a Boat Captain based in Fujairah, getting divers safely out to and back from Nemo's dive sites on every trip. He's a dependable presence on the water, helping keep every trip running smoothly from departure to return.
Fujairah Branch Team
Ahmed Almasry
Ahmed Almasry manages day-to-day admin at Nemo Diving Center's Fujairah branch, keeping bookings, schedules, and paperwork running smoothly behind the scenes so every diver has a seamless experience.
Mohamed Elsayed
Admin
Mohamed Elsayed supports the admin team at Nemo Diving Center's Fujairah branch, helping keep bookings, and day-to-day operations on track for both staff and divers.
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Whether you're taking your first breath underwater or working toward a technical certification, our team is here to guide you every step of the way.
Our Team at Nemo Diving Center
Behind every dive at Nemo Diving Center is a team that has spent years, often decades, diving the waters of Dubai and Fujairah. From your first Discover Scuba Diving experience to advanced technical training, you're taught by PADI professionals who know these dive sites inside out.
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Nemo Diving Center’s team is built around one goal: getting you safely and confidently into the water, whatever stage of diving you’re at. Across our Dubai and Fujairah branches, our instructors, dive masters, and boat crew bring a combined total of well over a century of scuba diving UAE experience to every trip, every course, and every certification we run.
Our instructor team spans the full range of PADI teaching credentials. Our PADI Instructor Dubai team runs Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water courses, while our PADI Instructor Fujairah team teaches across the East Coast’s dive sites. Beyond entry-level training, we have IDC Staff Instructors, Tec Instructors, and a Tec Instructor Trainer for divers ready to move into technical diving. Whether you’re taking your very first breath underwater or working toward a technical certification, there’s an instructor on our team who has already taught that exact course, on these exact dive sites, more times than they can count. Between them, our instructors have certified thousands of divers and have taught across some of the region’s most varied conditions, from the Arabian Gulf off Dubai to the Indian Ocean side of Fujairah’s East Coast, with several also bringing experience from further afield, including the Red Sea.
Supporting our instructors is a team of Dive Master Fujairah professionals who lead certified divers on guided dives, assist with training in the water, and are often the first familiar face you’ll see on the boat. They know our local dive sites, reefs, wrecks, and drift dives alike, in detail, and combine that local knowledge with a genuine enthusiasm for introducing divers, new and experienced, to what’s beneath the surface.
None of that happens without the team that gets everyone there safely in the first place. Our boat captains handle the logistics of every trip: navigating to the dive site, keeping the boat steady for entries and exits, and making sure the ride out and back is as smooth as the dive itself. Behind the scenes, our admin team keeps bookings, schedules, and day-to-day operations running so the only thing you need to think about is your dive.
It’s also a genuinely multilingual team. Between our instructors, dive masters, and crew, we teach and communicate in English, Arabic, Russian, and Hindi, which means clear, comfortable instruction whatever your first language, and no communication gaps at the exact moments they matter most: safety briefings, skill checks, and everything in between.
What ties the team together is a shared, hands-on approach to teaching diving: patient with total beginners, precise with technical divers, and always grounded in real local knowledge of the UAE’s dive sites rather than a one-size-fits-all script. Many of our instructors and dive masters have been with Nemo for years, which means the person teaching your course today is likely to be the same familiar face guiding your dives next season too.
Whether you’re booking a Discover Scuba Diving experience in Dubai, working toward your PADI Open Water certification in Fujairah, or ready to take the next step into technical diving, you’ll be in the hands of a team that dives these waters, and teaches these courses, every single day.