Diving Musandam & the East Coast
With several people away on leave and the three xxxx’s (make your own up) gallivanting in the Musandam (of which more later) numbers were reduced to the point where me and PJ decided to abandon the Mullah and head for the east coast to see how the other half dives. This was Al Boom’s Al […]
Diving MV Zainab
Last Friday we headed for the Zainab for the first time in a while. This meant launching from Dubai which caused a bit of confusion since the usual slip, Umm Suqeim 2, is currently closed for refurbishment of the harbour. “Launch from DOSC” was the word and taking this at face value PJ and I […]
Diving MV Mullah 2
There were a couple of debutants last Friday: Rob on dive marshal duty and Derek towing the boat. As with PJ last weekend the boat got to the slip without trouble but Derek found, like PJ before him, that reversing a trailer can be a bit problematic until you’ve had some practice.This week’s target was […]
Diving Jumbo & Neptune, Energy Determination, plus 2012 AGM
There was quite a lot of action last week and I’ll depart from strict chronology to start with the diving. Peter was having his first go at towing the boat (in fact his first go at towing anything) but we got to Al Khan and launched the boat without any undue alarm. The destinations were […]
Diving the Taha, 6th July, 2012
Having cast off from Al Khan (at probably the lowest the tide can get) Derek, who was collecting Emirates IDs, realized that instead he’d brought his Vehicle Registration. Being that the Coastguards have been stricter in recent months about having Photo ID we returned to the quay briefly, although having taken another look at the […]
Mullah 2 & 2-Pro Tek 29th June
We went for a bit of wreck clearing and cleaning on the Mullah and the Tek last Friday. The first attempt at hooking the wreck was foiled by a tangled anchor line resulting us then dropping it too far from the wreck. PJ now takes up the story:In perfect sea conditions, having relocated the Mullah […]
Two-pro Tek & the Dara
We started last Friday with a slight disagreement about how to deploy the painter to secure the boat to the quayside whilst loading the gear. It’s a question that may never be definitively answered as we seem to have mislaid the instruction manual that came with that particular piece of rope. However after some thought, […]
Neptune and Jumbo
After last week’s non-dive it was good to get back in the water on Friday. We took the boat in reasonably calm seas out to the Jumbo and the Neptune. The Jumbo is a cargo vessel now lying on its port side in about 23m of water. It was sunk deliberately as an artificial reef […]
Taha and spearfishing
After last week’s trip over to the east coast, we were back in the Arabian Gulf on Friday. The initial target was the Taha but when we got there we found a boat already moored there and some spear-fishermen on the surface right over the wreck. Deciding to leave them to it, we headed instead […]
Mountain Camp-Out and Dibba Rock
Last weekend we went for the camp-out up in the mountains and a very good trip it was too. We all reached the site thanks to detailed instructions from Mike and despite the GPS co-ordinates being a full degree out. Anyone trusting the numbers would have found themselves only 2km from the Taha wreck – […]