{"id":239,"date":"2014-05-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsac406.weebly.com\/dive-reports\/victoria-stirred"},"modified":"2014-05-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T09:00:00","slug":"victoria-stirred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Stirred"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">The Vic Star was again our destination for last weekend &#8211; a decision I wasn\u2019t party to having missed last Tuesday at the club.&nbsp;When we got there we were not alone. The vessel we saw last week was still there \u2013 the MV Baghdad from Aqaba \u2013 presumably still oblivious to the fact that they\u2019re anchored only 100m from a major hazard to shipping. There was also a small inflatable with no-one on board but there were a couple of heads bobbing in the water 50m away. The man and his wife were not it turned out in need of assistance and they weren\u2019t very pleased to see us. He muttered a few words about his wife\u2019s privacy and they finned over to their boat where she climbed out in full abaya and swiftly wrapped a scarf around her head. The whole thing was slightly farcical and it was hard to avoid thinking that if privacy is this lady\u2019s ultimate concern then she\u2019s surely picked the wrong pastime.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>And on with the diving. Compared to a couple of weeks ago, the number of barracuda seems to have reduced but they\u2019re still there mainly around the stern, as are the jacks and the batfish. There was a solitary leopard ray on the sand near the prop and Mike spotted an eagle ray as he was swimming around the bridge. The sea was a bit choppy but not that bad and the current was minimal. It was also the opening of the \u201cboiler suit season\u201d. In other words it\u2019s time to put my wet suit away until December for diving on this coast at least. That said it was still a bit chilly at 22m and not everyone will be consigning the neoprene to the back of the cupboard just yet. The wreck yielded a depth-sounding weight and attached rope which will make an excellent shot-line.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>It was a turn-out (and consequential income) to gladden the heart of our treasurer \u2013 nine divers in total boosted by the welcome return of Sami and John Kyriakos.&nbsp;<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vic Star was again our destination for last weekend &#8211; a decision I wasn\u2019t party to having missed last Tuesday at the club.&nbsp;When we got there we were not alone. The vessel we saw last week was still there \u2013 the MV Baghdad from Aqaba \u2013 presumably still oblivious to the fact that they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dive-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}