Victoria Shaken
For the last weekend we had the return of a familiar face – Sergey Lazarev who last dived with us in 2012 but hasn’t been seen in a boat since then (not in ours anyway). Don’t leave it so long next time, Sergey! We also had our promised guests – seven divers from the Kuwait […]
Victoria Stirred
The Vic Star was again our destination for last weekend – a decision I wasn’t party to having missed last Tuesday at the club. When we got there we were not alone. The vessel we saw last week was still there – the MV Baghdad from Aqaba – presumably still oblivious to the fact that they’re […]
Victoria Star
Back to one boat for last weekend but we were a bit lucky to go anywhere at all. The weather Friday was very rough but we had foreseen this and planned to go Saturday when the sea was supposed to have come down. In fact the forecast was pretty accurate and although it was a […]
Victoria Star Aquarium
Our treasurer volunteered to marshal the dive last Friday and no-one was about to talk him out of it. Peter elected to make a trip to the Victoria Star and with Janette bringing some of her students along, we had two full boats which was good to see. Mike A towed SP125 with his brand […]
Dara!
The dive last weekend was one of our regular trips to the old favourite, the Dara. There was a practical reason as well: the echo sounder was damaged on the east coast two weeks earlier and although Mike had bought a new transponder, there were no absolute guarantees that it would work properly. The Dara […]
Gone With the Wind
After last week’s excursion over to the east coast, we were back in familiar waters close to home last weekend. At least some of us were. I had a week off playing football (again) but Mike Anthony took a boat to the Victoria Star. I’m grateful to Mike Dalton who has stepped up to the […]
East Coast Camp-out
As promised, last weekend was camp-out time, although switched to Friday / Saturday by popular demand. We elected to head for the hills rather than the beach as the weather has taken a turn for the hot and sweaty so some altitude seemed like the best plan if we were to get any sleep. Before […]
Dry Humour
That’s what you get for trying to be clever I suppose. I am reliably informed that it’s “Eliot” not “Elliot” for which I stand corrected – cheers Robbin! Anyway – having secured my place in this month’s Pseuds Corner, I can describe the weekend’s diving if only briefly. I wasn’t there myself as I was […]
“April is the cruellest month”
The quote by TS Elliot threatened to come true last week and may yet do so for one of our number. We were all quite excited to start with – our dear friend and valued member, Mr Brian Lugg, had apparently spotted a report of yet another ship on fire and sinking off the coast […]
Wreckless search before diving Nasteran & Sha
It was another calm day on the water on Friday which was handy as we had some wreck hunting to do. A cargo vessel / dhow had gone down in flames a week earlier and we’d acquired some (we hoped) reliable co-ordinates from contacts within Sharjah Port. That is something we won’t ignore as it’s […]