Inchcape 2
“I had planned to dive Inchcape 1 and 2 a week ago with my son, with Freestyle based directly opposite Dibba Rock. Unfortunately Oliver couldn’t join me, and after a very delayed start, Kelvin of Freestyle was unable to locate the marker buoy for Inchcape 1. It became apparent that the very high tide had […]
A rare treat
a ball of juvenile lined eel catfish This comes to you from the not-so-sunny UK where I’m spending a couple of weeks. The diving goes on regardless and the dhows were visited last Friday. Mike tells the story: “Due to a couple of unforeseen events our numbers were depleted by four from the nine whom […]
MV Taha and a calm sea after all & diving in Qatar
The weather looked a bit touch and go last weekend and with Simon having a second attempt at marshalling – the first having been abandoned due to rough seas – we were thinking that maybe he was a jinx. We went for it anyway and although a bit lumpy on the way out there was […]
Karen’s Dhow
The first order of the day on Friday was to have a look at some co-ordinates for the Darya-Vand XI which was on the same chart as we used last weekend to find the Moraffi. After that successful search we had some hope but this time we were out of luck – nothing but sandy […]
MV Dara and a lot of nets
Much better weather this weekend but we went back to the Dara to recover the SMB abandoned there last week. We also went to look at some copper pipes that were spotted by Rob near the bow. These are distorted into some weird shapes presumably as a result of the fire that engulfed the vessel […]
High waves, a lost SMB and jet skies…
The forecast wasn’t looking too promising last Friday so we planned a Dara dive, the thinking being that it’s not too far and so less chance of a complete abandonment. The waves were indeed on the heavy side but we got out there in one piece (actually two pieces – we took both boats) and […]
And now for something completely different
And now for something completely different. It wasn’t meant to be – the Zainab was the plan and we had 10 divers signed up and ready to go but the weather didn’t cooperate. There was a breeze whipping up the sea and we weren’t long out of Umm Suqeim 2 before we realized we were […]
Martini Rock and Inchscape 2
At the weekend we made a trip over to the east coast to dive Martini Rock. We hadn’t been there for a while and it made a change from the Gulf. It also enabled a larger than usual number to go out – we had 16 divers in total plus Forrester who’d offered to drive […]
A change of plan, plenty of fish – and dolphins!
Not a bad weekend at all! It didn’t go exactly according to plan – the original targets were the Neptune and Jumbo but after half an hour heading into a worsening sea state, we diverted to the dhows which at that point were only ten minutes away. We went first to Karen’s dhow which used […]
Ideal diving conditions at the Dara!
Last Friday we went back to the Dara for the first time since the 50th anniversary dive last month. We packed all ten divers into the big boat which made it a bit cramped but the wreck isn’t far away from Hamriyah and the sea state was forecast to be very calm as indeed it turned […]