Prelude to Christmas
We abandoned diving this week in order to visit DSDC and partake of their Christmas Brunch. As it turned out the sea conditions would have probably ruled out diving in any case. As you would expect from such an event there were weighty and serious discussions and contemplation of major diving issues – for a […]
RAK weekend
There was no diving the previous weekend for the first time in a while. The forecast for Friday 30th was very discouraging with large waves, and wind and sure enough we woke up to rain which turned into thunder and lightning during the day. Being a long weekend we could have got out on Sunday which […]
Disappointing Dara, Tempting Tek
We had planned to go for WreckX last Friday but come the morning the forecast was deemed to be too much for a trip of that distance (46km from Al Khan). With the benefit of hindsight, we would probably have made it without problems but the journey back would have been a bit rocky. Plan […]
Diving at Dibba
For the long weekend last Friday, Geoff organised a trip over to the east coast with Freestyle Divers at the Royal Beach Hotel. Resort diving can be criticised in some quarters but it’s nice to let someone else do the worrying. The first target was the Inchcape 1, a deliberate sinking for divers that sits […]
Diving MV Taha & the Anchor barge
The original intention last weekend was to head out to WreckX, so named because no-one knows what it’s really called. It was located by Brian Lugg and at 35m it’s one of the deeper ones that we do. The other statistic is that it’s 43km offshore meaning that the weather has to co-operate which last […]
Neptune and Jumbo
After the Eid weekend adventure we were back on familiar territory last Friday – a trip to the Neptune and Jumbo. The Neptune is an upturned barge that went over after a collision whilst it was a supporting vessel fighting a fire on a rig. It landed upside down and while the general shape of […]
Eid on the East Coast
Report by Polly Buckingham:For those of us who did not head for beirut or Kathmandu, the road trip over the mountains to Dibba Fujaireh was relatively hassle free. Finding the way over from Ajman, it has to be mentioned that we offer no thanks to a TomTom which didn’t work correctly, a satellite tracker on […]
Eid Diving in Beirut
Last weekend was the latest installment in what is becoming an annual tradition – the Eid Al Adha 406 expedition. This year the destination was Beirut – the aim being to dive the “Souffleur”, a Vichy France submarine that was torpedoed by the British in June 1941. We also had a standing invitation to visit […]
Diving the Tek & Dara
We almost had an embarrassment of divers last Friday. We were in the happy position of seeing the boat full up by 8.05 Tuesday evening but seriously over-full about 20 minutes later. Next time this won’t be a problem as Mike will have sorted out SP 125 but this time we were looking at 13 […]
Ajman Glory
This is a bit later than normal but better late than never. Last Friday was a bit normal compared to some recent dives but none the worse for that. We intended to dive the Ajman Glory and the Dara in anticipation of a couple of guests from the UK. The guests couldn’t make it in […]