Jana Murray tagged posts

Bu Rashid Island, Oman

Exciting site as 150m wall, non-existent in UAE, and covered in stunning coral. Immediately saw 3 devil manta rays. Also giant barracuda, large shoal of yellow tail barracuda and black-tip sharks.

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Um Al Farin Island, Oman

Challenging dive but good for experience. Site was in shade as sun behind mountain so vis poor. At the headland there was a very strong down current (to 50m). We managed to make our way back gripping the coral and avoiding the stonefish but it was nerve-wracking. The girl who has been described as having gills, guzzled air.

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Inchcape 1, United Arab Emirates

Wonderful dive site. Quite apart from finally meeting Fred, the giant honeycomb moray, there were so many snapper they blocked out the light overhead completely.

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Lima Rock (North Side), Oman

Stunning island with beautiful yellow and purple coral and many shoals. Incredible visibility, especially given the storm above. It had been rumoured the vis was excellent here but we had not believed it. We put the anchor down too far away from the island and descended to 29 metres (can go down to 60m here as shelving) and swam back in to average 22 metres for the dive. The island is protected so can be dived in bad sea conditions. Saw a beautiful feathertail stingray and Mario filmed him swimming away.

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Coral Gardens/Shark Island, United Arab Emirates

2 dive sites combined – went from 26m up to 12 m after 20 minutes hence the long dive time.

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Martini Rock, United Arab Emirates

Amazing dive as so much life. Saw: marbled torpedo ray, leopard whip ray, large shoal barracuda, remora, mating cuttle fish, masked porcupine fish, turtles and all the usual large shoals and pretty fish.

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Anenome Gardens/Shark Island, United Arab Emirates

Very poor weather but tranquil and beautiful below. A remora attached itself to me for half the dive. Was terrified as I didn’t know what it was! Saw the biggest moral and turtle. Two level dive over to Shark Island at 5-12 metres.

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Inchcape 2, United Arab Emirates

Very relaxed wreck dive. Saw at least 5 large lionfish around the base of the ship and hidden rays on the sand.

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