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After the previous Dara 50th anniversary weekend, last Friday was a lot quieter \u2013 we ended up not going out at all. The reason for this was the forecast that \u2013 although superficially benign \u2013  also included the words: \u201cpossible thunderstorms with 8 \u2013 12ft waves in the vicinity of the storms\u201d. As we discovered a couple of months ago, not only are those sort of conditions highly unpleasant but can blow up very quickly indeed \u2013 certainly before you have time to get divers out of the water. I decided that discretion was perhaps the better part of valour for this one.<\/p>\n

With a space to fill, I can instead write a few words about a new wreck we\u2019ve dived several times recently. The MV Taha is located not far from the Neptune and it sank at the end of last year in circumstances currently unknown. It is an Iranian registered cargo ship of 54m length lying on its starboard side in about 20m of water. The vessel was carrying among other things a lot of car and truck tyres and a considerable quantity of diesel engine oil. Uwe and Lamjed are thinking of ways to remove the oil drums from the wreck \u2013 these would otherwise corrode over time releasing their contents into the Gulf.<\/p>\n

The ship\u2019s telegraph and steering wheel have been liberated and await restoration but anyone hoping for a festival of brass will be disappointed \u2013 the ship\u2019s fittings are not so much \u201cHarrods\u201d but more \u201cPricebusters\u201d. The viz has been pretty good on our visits so far and there has been plenty of fish life. It\u2019s nice to have a new target and there\u2019s still the engine room to find. Thanks to Cathy who originally found the co-ordinates.<\/p>\n

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Anyone who happens to have a copy of this month\u2019s Outdoor UAE magazine will have seen a report on Geoff\u2019s trek to Everest Base Camp. He\u2019s raising money for cancer research and if anyone feels like supporting the cause go to: www.justgiving.com\/geoff.patch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the previous Dara 50th anniversary weekend, last Friday was a lot quieter \u2013 we ended up not going out at all. The reason for this was the forecast that \u2013 although superficially benign \u2013  also included the words: \u201cpossible thunderstorms with 8 \u2013 12ft waves in the vicinity of the storms\u201d. As we discovered a couple […]<\/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-382","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\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}