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Directory · Aqaba

Aqaba Dive Operators: What We Could Verify (2026)

Every dive and snorkel operator in Aqaba that appears in the Green Fins register, with what an independent source confirms and what nobody publishes. Not a ranking, not a recommendation, and no operator paid to be listed.

3 entries in the register on 2026-08-15 · 2 hold Certified membership, assessed in person · 0 publish which languages their instructors teach in.

How to read this list: the labels, and why some fields are blank

Green Fins comes from the register, and the level carries the assessment with it: a Certified member was assessed in person, a Digital member evaluated itself. Agency, instructor languages and licence are what the operator states. Click a name for the source and the date behind each field.

Open an operator and each field shows what it says, then where that came from and the date we read it: checked, claimed or not checked. What each label means, and what an agency name or a licence number is worth, is set out once on how we check an operator.

Where a reason differs for one operator, it is inside that operator's row.

  • Instructor languages. No agency profile we could reach, and no register publishes instructor languages. A website language switcher is a fact about the website, not about the staff.
  • Insurance. No public register of operator insurance exists for Jordan.
  • Licence. No tourism business licence number published on the operator's own site, and the Jordan register cannot be queried by operator name from here.
  • Staff on the roster. No staff breakdown published for this operation.
  • Training agency. Not stated in a form we could read. Several of these sites render their content with JavaScript we do not execute, so this is absence of a reading, not absence of an affiliation.

What this directory refuses to tell you

Insurance. No public register of operator liability cover exists for Jordan, so any directory claiming to have checked it is quoting the operator back to you. Guide ratios and in-water practice. The Green Fins assessment covers environmental impact, not supervision. Instructor languages, where they are blank. A blank means no answer yet, not that nobody there speaks your language. It is the most commonly invented field in this industry, and a website language switcher is not evidence for it: that tells you a translator was hired once, not who is on the boat this season.

The list can only contain operators who joined Green Fins. A shop that never applied is absent, and absence here says nothing about it. Every dive or snorkel operator in Aqaba carried in the Green Fins member register on 15 August 2026. Operators outside that register are not listed, which is a limit of the source and not a judgement about them. Jordan's only coastline, about 27 km of it on the Gulf of Aqaba, so this is the whole country's diving rather than one town's.

Corrections and removals. If you operate one of these businesses and a field is wrong, write to us with the document and we will correct it and date the correction. We will not remove a factual register entry on request, and we do not accept payment for a listing, an ordering or a badge. If that ever changes it will be declared here and on the disclosure page before the first paid listing appears.
What this page is, and is not. This is independent research, written by the operator of this site and not reviewed by a lawyer. It is not a substitute for training, and listing an operator is not a safety endorsement: we have not dived with these businesses, inspected their equipment or watched their briefings. Diving carries risk that no register removes. Where this page mentions cover it is not insurance advice: we state only that no public register exists, which is a fact about registers, not about any operator’s policy. Every field carries the date it was checked; verify anything that matters with the operator and the authority before you rely on it.

Sources

  1. Green Fins member register (Reef-World Foundation with the UN Environment Programme). Queried through its store locator at 29.53/35.0, radius 30 km, filtered to Aqaba. greenfins.net, checked 2026-08-15.
  2. Green Fins membership definitions, quoted in full with their scoring bands and what Restricted actually means, on how we check an operator. Certified, Digital, checked 2026-08-12.
  3. PADI dive shop profiles at apps.padi.com for instructor languages and staff counts, read where the operation publishes a store number we could find and has filled those fields in. Most have done neither, which is why that column is thin rather than absent.
  4. Operator websites, read on 2026-08-15 for the self-declared fields only. Of the 3 addresses the register carries, 0 are dead, 0 are social media pages that refuse automated checks, and 0 refused us for other reasons. Each is marked on its own card rather than quietly dropped or called dead.
  5. how to get certified while travelling for choosing a course.
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