{"id":405,"date":"2010-11-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsac406.weebly.com\/dive-reports\/poor-vis-at-tanjas-plates-and-dara"},"modified":"2010-11-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T09:00:00","slug":"poor-vis-at-tanjas-plates-and-dara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Poor Vis at Tanja&#8217;s Plates and Dara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph editable-text\" style=\" text-align: left; \"><strong style=\"\">5 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Last Friday we had a return trip to \u201cTanja\u2019s plates\u201d 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 \u2013 there was a current running through and the viz was not great. Reels were mandatory if you wanted to have any chance of finding the anchor on the way back. The aesthetic pleasure of seeing piles of steel plate on the seabed can be a little overstated but the area has become an artificial reef with plenty of fish life including some hammour and at least one monster barracuda. I\u2019d like to see it again in better conditions.<\/p>\n<p> Second dive of the day was the Dara which is only 5km away. Again the viz was very poor.<\/p>\n<p> Anyone thinking of launching from Hamriyah be warned \u2013 the coastguard is very keen. After the hassle two weeks ago both boats are equipped with letters from the Wanderers authorizing us to use the boats and the phone number of a senior coastguard who can confirm that the UHF locator is not required. On the plus side he accepted inflated BCD\u2019s as life jackets.<\/p>\n<p> Overheard on the boat after the first dive:<br \/> \u201cDid you see that white fish I took a photo of?\u201d<br \/> \u201cYes I saw it\u201d<br \/> \u201cWhat was it?\u201d<br \/> \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d<br \/> \u201cIt wasn\u2019t moving much\u201d<br \/> \u201cIt was dead\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 November Last Friday we had a return trip to \u201cTanja\u2019s plates\u201d 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 \u2013 there was a current running through and the viz was not great. Reels were [&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-405","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\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}