Every single boat heading out for a dive, every single diver going into the sea in Marsa Alam, must issue a permission from the Border Guards Intelligence Services, مخابرات حرس الحدود. It doesn’t cost much, less than LE10. However, with the number of boats and divers across Marsa Alam and around it, they must be making hundreds of thousands a year, if not millions if it was a good season.
But WHY? Why would the military take this money? This is an extra source of income that’s all. PERIOD.