Diving MV Zainab (at last!)
The sea state being predicted to be flat and on a neap tide, we had another go for the Zainab on Friday and wonder of wonders – we made it. It helped that Mike had got the GPS back into action and I also brought my own so no need this week to go frantically […]
Diving without a GPS!
After last week’s roller-coaster, we might have expected an uneventful dive but it didn’t quite work out like that. Towing the boat down to Umm Suqeim 1 for a trip to the Zainab, the boat must have been a bit too far back on the trailer and hence a bit unstable. Heading towards the Galadari […]
Diving Ajman Glory
This was an eventful weekend just gone. On Thursday afternoon some of us went to Al Ain for Jutta’s funeral. This was a sad occasion of course but also moving – particularly Oliver’s eulogy and Peter’s poem and impromptu account of how he came to meet and marry her. Afterwards we went back to Sharjah […]
Diving the Dhows, Losing Jutta
Diving events this week have been overshadowed by the sad passing of Jutta Jackson, yesterday afternoon as I write. Although not a diver, she was very much part of the club, maintaining the web site and joining us Tuesday nights and post-dives round the pool and on dhow trips. For the last twelve months she […]
Diving MV Taha & Karen’s Dhow
Last Friday we were intending to go to the Neptune followed by Mike’s Tug – well Mike was marshall and he decided he hadn’t seen his boat for a while. Unfortunately the sea state was uncooperative and after a while with the journey time getting longer and longer we changed plans and headed for the […]
Victoria Star from Zanzibar
Diving Jumbo & Taha
Having dived little else but the Ajman Glory over the last few weeks we felt like a change and headed for the Jumbo and the Taha. The Jumbo was another wreck known to exist but not where until it finally turned up as a co-ordinate on a sea bed survey carried out prior to the […]
Images of the Ajman Glory today
It’s been quite a hectic week centred around our new friend, the Ajman Glory. The video tour taken the Friday before last was duly uploaded to the web site by Peter. Based on this and everything else, Nelson McEachan of the UK Hydrographic office has emailed us the following:Subject: RE: Ajman GloryDate: Tue, 21 Aug […]
IDENTIFIED! MV Ajman Glory (formerly MS Dollard)
With the Eid holidays this week, we managed to get in an extra day’s diving. Both of them were on the Mullah 2 aka Ajman Glory about which the evidence continues to mount. Last week I speculated that some photographs of the vessel afloat might settle the issue but I didn’t really expect to see […]
Measuring Mullah 2, or Seeking Ajman Glory?
L-R: Peter Jackson, Mike Murphy, Derek Roberts, Geoff Patch (top) Rob Gill, Ian Hussey, & Mike Dalton on Hamriyah slip on Friday with SP312 after diving both Mullah 2 and the Dara. Some interesting news this week. It seems that the Mullah 2 that we’ve been diving for a few weeks now could be the […]