East Coast Camp-out & Pinnacles dive
Where to start? First of all, Barry Thomas arrived at the club last week as promised and we had a few drinks together. The country has changed a bit since he was last here with the Union Defence Force in the 70’s but we were able to let him know something about what we’ve been […]
Dibba re-visited
With few around last Tuesday night, and fewer interested in diving, PJ suggested a trip back to Freestyle in Dibba. Two wanted to go Friday, two Saturday. Finally Friday was agreed, partly to accommodate a refresher for Dave, a veteran UAE expat and diver, friend of Robin. When you are a team of four, the […]
Saturday at Dibba
After our recent dives in poor viz, and fruitless searches for wrecks in the Gulf, and only two signing up for another local wreck dive last Friday, a Saturday dive on the East coast was suggested. With Ian and Cathy in the UK, and Mike off to Oman for the weekend, it was either the […]
Beatrix, Beatrix, wherefore art thou Beatrix?
This is written from the not so sunny UK where I’m spending a couple of weeks chilling out. I would have preferred that phrase to be metaphorical rather than literal but I suppose that less than tropical conditions are to be expected when you go to northern Europe in February.Still the diving goes on even […]
Dirty Diving
Last Friday the sea was again very smooth. We decided to go to the Ajman Glory on the grounds that it’s easy to navigate around if the viz was as atrocious as last week. Well you couldn’t call it crystal but the viz had nevertheless improved – perhaps around 3m. The wreck doesn’t seem to […]
Ta Ta Taha!
It was day of mixed feelings on Friday. It least we got a dive away – in fact the sea was so calm we didn’t stop at the Taha but carried on to Wreck X which is another 18km out in the same direction. Like a couple of weeks ago, the surface viz was very […]
No diving, but more from former members…
We didn’t make it out last weekend and we weren’t alone in that. Despite the uncertainty over which weather bulletin to trust, the forecast for Friday was unpromising to say the least and threatening to become worse condition as the day went on. No-one seriously argued when Mike called it off and his decision was […]
Welcome 2013, & MV Dara
Welcome to 2013!If you’re doing a dive on the first weekend of the year, what better place to go than the Dara? As it turned out there may have been several better places to go than the Dara but the first decision that had to be made on Thursday evening was whether to go diving […]
2012 Review
We tried to get a dive away yesterday (Friday) but the weather wasn’t co-operating. Strong winds and heavy seas were the order of the day so we got to have a lie-in instead. In truth the demand wasn’t great in any case – this sometimes happens over the holiday period. With the New Year approaching, it’s […]
Jumbo & Karen’s Dhow
After last week’s brunch in Dubai, the previous week’s trip to RAK and the bad weather the week before, this was the first time in a month we’d taken the boat out in home waters. Numbers were a bit light but this sometimes happens around the holiday season. We launched from Al Khan and headed […]