{"id":198,"date":"2018-07-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsac406.weebly.com\/dive-reports\/june-28th-2018"},"modified":"2018-07-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T09:00:00","slug":"june-28th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Jumbo and Victoria Star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u200b    As I suspected, the party this week was smaller than the previous week with people leaving and others engaged elsewhere. However, we still managed to get a boat out and we headed for the Jumbo, which we have dived regularly but not in the last couple of months. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
    There was some doubt as to whether we\u2019d make it as the predicted sea state was less than optimal but once we were on our it wasn\u2019t as bad as all that and we persevered, albeit a bit more slowly than would be possible on a flat sea. The anchor scored a hole-in-one and wrapped itself around part of the bridge section, close to the stern.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
    The sea might have been a bit rough but under water was a different story with next to no current and reasonable viz of 7m or so. The Jumbo usually has decent fish life and there was a big shoal of jacks on the way down as well as snappers, batfish and on the bow, an anemone and clownfish (yes, that\u2019s one week after I said the Dara was the only place these were found on the west coast). Angela and I had a very nice dive, swimming in and around the wreck and later on, Peter and Marc had a similar experience. On the way up the line a particularly friendly batfish tried to eat my fins.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
    The sea state was picking up by this time so we decided against hanging around this far offshore (30km) and we headed back to the Victoria Star for the second dive. The fish life was less than the Jumbo but the viz was similar and the current still negligible.
\u200bAll in all, a very worthwhile trip. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A few words on recent developments:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Brian has sorted out the oxygen tanks and Allen has fixed them up in the equipment room. Some more work and training is needed before we have nitrox back but the project is moving.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In parallel with this, Polly has started revamping the website. This is early days and still a work in progress but it can be accessed via the link below. Any comments would be welcome.<\/span>
http:\/\/bsac406.com\/\u200b
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Chris Head writes:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Whilst writing I’d like to give you all advance notice of a one-day-dhow we’re running on the 21st September from Dibba up to the Musandam. This is for the DSDC anniversary and should be an excellent day out and a great Musandam introduction if you haven’t dived it before.<\/span><\/span>
I\u2019m assuming he won\u2019t mind us muscling in on this provided there\u2019s space.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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DAN insurance website: <\/span><\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.daneurope.org\/home<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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The Dive Club meets every Tuesday night in the Dive Bar. <\/span><\/span><\/span>
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See you there!<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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