Mince pies and Great White
26 December While we were munching turkey and mince pies our treasurer was having a rather different Xmas experience. Over to PJ: “Just done the Great White experience, on a commercial boat out of Kleinbaii, near the southernmost tip of Africa. The location was a large bay with a backdrop of dunes and low […]
No dive x-mas
24 December Last week’s planned dive didn’t happen in the end. We had a boat ready to go but the weather didn’t co-operate. It might have been OK but no-one felt much like battling the waves on Christmas Eve. A dive will be going up for Friday all being well – hopefully we’ll have better […]
Dara, BCDS and His &Hers
17 December Last Friday we went out to the Dara. The dive had looked a bit touch-and-go earlier in the week as the storms that trashed other parts of the middle-east also affected the Gulf to some extent causing monster waves. The sea had relented by Friday but unfortunately the legacy was viz of 1m […]
East Coast& Camp-Out
10 December The big boat was out of commission last weekend as it was off getting its trailer welded up. Just the same, Brendan took a team up to the east coast for a dive / camp-out and he reports as follows: “We had a camp out on Friday night, 10 Dec and the weather was […]
From Karen’s Dhow& Big Pop Dhow to DibbaRock & Inchcape
20 November This weeks’ reports by Peter Jackson: Dibba Rock and Diving Inchcape 1, When your friends all disappear to the Red Sea, a chap still has to dive! So with son Oliver we drove to the East coast & Dibba Rock. Putting on all the gear, noticed Sarah and Simon, snorkelling by the beach, […]
Sharm Al Sheikh Trip over Eid Al Adha
Sharm Al Sheikh Trip over Eid Al Adha There follows an account of 406 on tour – Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt.The trip didn’t get off to the most auspicious of starts. No complaints about Royal Jordanian Airlines or the stopover in Amman but Sharm Airport must be a leading contender for the world’s most […]
Sports Divers and Petrofac beach clean
12 November As promised Friday was a training day with trainees and instructors heading for Hamriyah beach with SP 125 and the big boat going to the Dara. After a number of controlled buoyant lifts, rescue breaths and simulated CPR had been successfully completed we would be happy to see Sami, Cathy and Derek roaming […]
Poor Vis at Tanja’s Plates and Dara
5 November Last Friday we had a return trip to “Tanja’s plates” mainly because I wanted to have a look and the Dive Marshall usually gets what he wants. I think the conditions were less favourable than the first visit – there was a current running through and the viz was not great. Reels were […]
Slow Dhow from Dibba and the forgotten BCG
29 October Last week’s problems with the coastguard seem to have been resolved (thanks Sami) which is good news as the UHF locator they wanted us to install is a seriously expensive bit of kit. Thanks go to Brendan for doing the nitrox course last Tuesday. Nitrox 32 which we mix at the club is […]
The Germans at the Dara and Steel Plates
22 October I was in the UK last Friday but thanks to the reports of Mike and Sami, I can pass on the following: We had quite an interesting day last Friday. It first started with being very closely scrutinized by the coast guard at Hamriyah port, where they pointed to us that we are […]