Course Updates
Course updates; The Nitrox Gas Blending course was successful with our resident trainer. Great day with two additional members now Nitrox Gas Blender qualified. The Nitrox Gas Blender course is open to anyone, aged over 18. It’s a practical way to get non-divers involved in the club, especially if they have family members who dive. No diving […]
Happy National Day Dive – TaHa and Victoria Star – Course Up-Dates
Hello to All near and Far, To those reading this in the UAE, a very happy National Day. It’s nice to be sitting outside sipping bubbly on a Sunday morning rather than being at work. You can really tell it’s December when the Christmas lights go up at the Wanderers and the temperature drops as low […]
Wreck Taha & Victoria Star….And An Odd Cabbage
Hi allI had time off for good behaviour last weekend so I leave this week’s report to Polly with a contribution from Mike: This week 406 was quiet in terms of divers with members overseas and or on dive missions over the East Coast for either training purposes or recreational dives.Our Diving Officer took a […]
Hall of Fame
And now for something completely different. When he departed for Cyprus, Geoff Taylor left us some books of dive logs from the 80’s. Allen has started the process of digitizing these and I intend to publish some from time to time as a taste of what the club was doing 30+ years ago. This one, […]
Mariam Express and Jumbo Revisited
Greetings All; Thanks to Mike’s efforts, we got the Discovery back on the road in time for Friday’s dive. He was only supposed to be running it up to Tasjeel for its test but he just kept going and by 9.30am Thursday, it had an insurance paper and a registration card. This might have been […]
Getting Crabby on the Victoria Star – Net Clearing Missions
True to promises made, Janette and Ken and Jim Darbyshire were all at the club last Tuesday. It was good to catch up with them. Ken and Janette have now returned to the Philippines but Jim is still around and may be at the club this week.———————————-Also as promised, we went back to the Victoria […]
Dive Officer Geoff Patch Goes to Sharm & Dive Updates
Hello All, Mike Anthony is returning for his fourth or fifth unretirement. He won’t be in time for club night but should be diving at the weekend. We have no plans yet but I suggest a return to the Vic Star armed with scissors and knives to clear the fishing nets.———————————-There was no diving at […]
Mariam Express & The Victoria Star
The Mariam Express (formerly Delos Express) We were a bit short-handed at the weekend after a couple of people pulled out and one overslept. Four is still a dive so we headed out to the Mariam Express, which I haven’t been to for a while. This is a roll-on, roll off cargo vessel which was […]
Bubbles and Wrecks & Mandolin Nick AND the REEL RETURNS :)
Last Friday nearly didn’t happen. As late as 3pm Thursday, the forecast was predicting thunder and lightning and had it stayed that way, we certainly wouldn’t have gone. By the evening update, the prediction had modified to cloudy and overcast and with a forecast wave height of 0.1m, there was no reason to call it […]
Try Dives and Beyond
Back to the underwater variety of diving, we had two boats and ten divers out on Friday. The promised cyclone never arrived and in fact, the sea was as flat calm as you could possibly wish for. The first target was the Jumbo, which lies just over 30km from Al Khan in about 23m of […]