{"id":431,"date":"2009-07-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsac406.weebly.com\/dive-reports\/july"},"modified":"2009-07-19T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T09:00:00","slug":"july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"July"},"content":{"rendered":"
Those of us who went to Al Sawadi in Oman in the last weekend of July had a couple of memorable dives on the Damaniyat Islands. As well as the monster rays and morays a whale shark came out to play with us put a few minutes. Thanks to Sergey the event was caught on camera and a few of these shots are shown below. This is just for your interest of course \u2013 I\u2019m in no way trying to make anyone jealous.<\/div>\n
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While this was going on, Uwe was taking a boat out to the Mariam Express. I believe the divers came back with a crockery set each.<\/p>\n

We dived the Neptune and Jumbo on the 24th – Derek (and family) did their best to entertain us by nearly losing a dive computer (dropped overboard \u2013 found on the seabed by Danny), a fin (dropped whilst getting into the boat \u2013 drifting off to Iran \u2013 retrieved by Marc doing a Michael Phelps impression) and a camera (found on the boat not having left it). This is not to mention coming up with \u2013 shall we say \u2013 a tad less than 50bar. Might take a while to tot up the fines for this one Derek! <\/p>\n

On Friday the 17th we went to check out some co-ordinates of potential wreck sites. The first one was indeed a wreck but stranded half way up a beach in Umm al Quwain. Not so much a dive more like a stroll at low tide. The second one proved to be in 35m of water and provided a few tantalising shapes on the echo sounder. We gave up this time but a return visit may be in order to find out what it is.<\/p>\n

After this we went to the nearby Dara where a couple of dives were rewarded by the appearance of a friendly turtle. While this was going on Mike Anthony was putting in some graft on the trailer which as a result is back in full working order \u2013 cheers Mike!<\/div>\n

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The dive on Friday the 10th seems to have been quite eventful. At least we can now say we’ve categorically proved that the boat floats a lot better with the bungs in. The viz on the Saraf wasn’t too good either I gather. (the Red Sea was quite nice though). <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of us who went to Al Sawadi in Oman in the last weekend of July had a couple of memorable dives on the Damaniyat Islands. As well as the monster rays and morays a whale shark came out to play with us put a few minutes. Thanks to Sergey the event was caught on […]<\/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-431","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\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsac.zelta.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}