Waves 5, Divers 0!
I think it’s fair to say that last weekend wasn’t our most successful ever. A pity as we had two boats for the first time in a while although therein lay part of the problem. Leaving the harbour we soon realised the sea was heavier than advertised and gave up on the Ajman Glory and […]
Look Back in Anchor!
Photographs by Cathy Terry We had a full boat out at the weekend which was good to see with Mr Jackson volunteering his services as marshall. Before we even got to the slip we ran into Geoff and Dee Patch at the petrol station. Geoff is well known for his outdoor activities of which diving […]
Weather woes
Last Thursday night was party night at the Blanchflower’s. To those of you who don’t know him, Peter was a stalwart of the club for a number of years, including a long stint as Chairman. Now he and Alison are retiring to the UK but first they urgently needed to reduce the contents of their […]
MV Jumbo & Karen’s Dhow
With our chairman Mike Dalton doing the marshalling, the intention was to dive the Neptune on Friday. We weren’t sure we would get there as the weather was unsettled and the forecast ambiguous but adopting the principle of “suck it and see” we headed out anyway. As it happened, the sea state was fine but […]
Mike’s Tug & MV Jumbo
Sami & John Kyriakos We launched from Al Khan at the weekend and mercifully everyone found it without making any extended detours. Having said that, some confusion might be excusable at the moment: The E311 that used to be Emirates Road except in Sharjah where it was the Sharjah Ring Road even though it wasn’t […]
Ajman Glory & Dara
Photos by Derek Roberts and Cathy Terry We thought we’d give the Sea King a miss at the weekend, having dived it a lot recently, rather heading instead for the Ajman Glory (née Dollard) which was another recent discovery after being missing for a number of years. This meant launching from Hamriyah, so first we […]
Sea King & Dara
After last week’s non-dive we got back into the water at the weekend. It was another trip to the Sea King 5 followed by the Dara. The Sea King is beginning to grow a few barnacles as you would expect and hopefully the fish will follow. At the moment there’s not much in the way […]
Polly pulls it off . . .
The hunt for the Al Jasourah has so far yielded nothing concrete (or steel) but investigations continue. Without any useful coordinates for this wreck we decided to revisit last week’s plan and go back to the Sea King 5 to take some more measurements. This time the weather co-operated and we got there without difficulty. […]
Wrecked dives!
After last weekend exploring the Sea King 5, we were keen to get back for another look. The idea was to take some measurements of the ship’s dimensions and depth and get a few more photos. Unfortunately the weather had the last word and with serious waves predicted, we decided not to risk it. Details […]
Seeking the Sea King
This was an interesting weekend. It got off to a slow start since SP312 hadn’t been used for a month after the various excursions to the east coast. This wouldn’t normally be a problem except that someone had forgotten to turn off the batteries which as a result were as flat as the proverbial witch. […]