{"id":247,"date":"2014-03-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsac406.weebly.com\/dive-reports\/wreckless-search-before-diving-nasteran-sha"},"modified":"2014-03-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:00:00","slug":"wreckless-search-before-diving-nasteran-sha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Wreckless search before diving Nasteran &#038; Sha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsite-youtube\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:10px;\">\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube-wrapper wsite-youtube-size-auto wsite-youtube-align-center\">\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHLZXUXNVMc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">It was another calm day on the water on Friday which was handy as we had some wreck hunting to do. A cargo vessel \/ dhow had gone down in flames a week earlier and we\u2019d acquired some (we hoped) reliable co-ordinates from contacts within Sharjah Port. That is something we won\u2019t ignore as it\u2019s always good to have new targets. In this case though, we spent over an hour doing search patterns without seeing anything other than flat seabed. At this point we decided to abandon the search for now and see if we could get better information.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>Since we were only 2km from the Nasteran at this point we decided to dive that instead. The Nasteran is an upturned landing craft that never used to be very exciting. As time goes by and more openings appear in the hull there will be more places to explore inside the wreck.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>We had a guest diver in the shape of Chris Head, my opposite number at DSDC. Chris had brought his re-breather along \u2013 possibly the first time we\u2019ve had one on board a 406 boat. Chris explained a bit about the equipment including the importance of making sure all the hoses are properly connected. Get this wrong and the lung fills with water meaning that the hapless diver has no alternative but to climb back on board, drain the water out, mutter about being an idiot and a dickhead before rolling back in. We\u2019re grateful to Chris for sharing his experience with us and we particularly enjoyed his practical demonstration.&nbsp;<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>Maybe we weren\u2019t expecting much but the Nasteran was an excellent dive. There were five or six marble rays swimming around the vessel and a large shoal of barracuda that swept over the upturned hull. The viz was above average \u2013 say 6 or 7m \u2013 and we had a few excursions inside the wreck. PJ was out with us for the first time in a while so we\u2019re looking forward to his new video (a small extract above).<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>For dive two we went to the Sha (aka Barracuda Barge) mainly because it was close and we haven\u2019t dived it for a while. So long in fact that no-one could remember what it looked like. It\u2019s actually a small barge split into two parts a short distance apart. It\u2019s an attractive dive with well established fish life but not one that you\u2019d travel a long way to visit. Still it made a change even if the water was beginning to feel a bit cold by the finish.<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another calm day on the water on Friday which was handy as we had some wreck hunting to do. A cargo vessel \/ dhow had gone down in flames a week earlier and we\u2019d acquired some (we hoped) reliable co-ordinates from contacts within Sharjah Port. That is something we won\u2019t ignore as it\u2019s [&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-247","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\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}