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In its October 2007 issue, Unterwassser Magazine declared Barracuda Diving Club in Aqaba as one of the top 100 diving clubs in the world. Underwasser is a German monthly published magazine that specializes in diving.

The Barracuda diving Club's distinguished services were the reason behind this nomination; its services are as following daily dive excursions: Barracuda Diving Club offers qualified divers and smokeless daily trips to a variety of diving sites along the coast, with the option of bringing their own diving equipments. The club organizes 7 diving trips per week qualification courses: Barracuda diving club provides a mix of theory and practical qualification training courses, enabling beginners to obtain professional diving skills to become open water divers. The club also offers pool and open water dive training under the PADI and BSAC programs, in addition to providing a wide range of additional improvement courses such as assistant Instructor and Ocean diver.

The Nabataean city of Petra in Jordan has been short-listed for the new seven wonders of the world. The original list included 200 sites; the short-list now stands at 21. The vote is being organized by a non-profit Swiss foundation called New7Wonders, which specializes in the preservation, restoration and promotion of monuments. The results of the voting will be announced on July 7, 2007, in Lisbon. Here's how 7wonders describes Petra.

On the edge of the Arabian Desert, nestled away in the mountains south of the Dead Sea, Petra was the glittering capital of the Nabataean empire of King Aretas IV (9 B.C. to 40 A.D.). Masters of water technology, the Nabataeans provided their city with great tunnel constructions and water chambers. A theater, modeled on Greek-Roman prototypes, had space for an audience of 4,000. Today, the Palace Tombs of Petra, with the 42-meter-high Hellenistic temple facade on the El-Deir Monastery, are impressive examples of Middle Eastern culture.

Barracuda launches the biggest PADI Training center the region to develop the sport of diving within high safety and technical standards, offering diving training to the Jordanian public at affordable prices, and providing foreign divers with proper high quality diving facilities and tours.

Located in one of the most wonderful Red Sea diving sites and in the hub of Red Sea underwater environment, the club became a unique training center striving to support professional divers and trainers and aiming to enhance the quilty of diving services in the region; for that reason the center has been equipied with advanced diving Gears, Class rooms, and specialiced diving trainers to meat the passion of providing a 5 star PADI training center in the red sea.