Great weekends diving up the Mussandam at the weekend (19th & 20th June)
We went out with Sheesa Beeach
Sea a but choppy and with springs it meant that White rock was the furthest north we could get - even then we could only dive it around slack water at midday.
Queen of the Mussandam was with us at Ras Kaisah with another group, but turned south after the first dive - I'm guessing looking for more sheltered less challenging diving
Water temps have been a steady 27 - 28. Coolest was on Lima at 30m where it was 25. Visibility wasn't the best I've seen this year at all. Very free with maybe 5m - 10m at max
It seems to be a good Whale Shark season. So far we've spotted one in Jan on Deep Purple (Ras Mussandam), In May on white Rock we had 1 at 6m and two others down at 40 at the same time. This weekend we had what we thought was one on Ras Kaisah (Friday) which both waves of divers saw. However looking at the videos they were two different beasts (one had a damaged tail fin)
On Mother of Mouse on Sat we saw another one.
Over the previous two years I haven't seen one at all despite diving the same sites around the same frequency.
Not sure how many others have been spotted by other groups especially around Octopus, Lima Rock and perhaps Ras Marovi?
Had Dolphins playing around the boat at Ras Sarkin - I dropped in the bay with a faint hope of seeing them underwater. Apparently they came towards us, but the vis was so bad if they'd have been more than 6m away we wouldn't have seen them.
The rest of the group had a high current mediocre dive on the sea wad side of the point, whereas in the bay we had very little flow, but lots of life. 2 large Rays, 2 eagle rays, turtles and schooling barracuda.
Next heading up there in Sept hopefully two trips
We went out with Sheesa Beeach
Sea a but choppy and with springs it meant that White rock was the furthest north we could get - even then we could only dive it around slack water at midday.
Queen of the Mussandam was with us at Ras Kaisah with another group, but turned south after the first dive - I'm guessing looking for more sheltered less challenging diving
Water temps have been a steady 27 - 28. Coolest was on Lima at 30m where it was 25. Visibility wasn't the best I've seen this year at all. Very free with maybe 5m - 10m at max
It seems to be a good Whale Shark season. So far we've spotted one in Jan on Deep Purple (Ras Mussandam), In May on white Rock we had 1 at 6m and two others down at 40 at the same time. This weekend we had what we thought was one on Ras Kaisah (Friday) which both waves of divers saw. However looking at the videos they were two different beasts (one had a damaged tail fin)
On Mother of Mouse on Sat we saw another one.
Over the previous two years I haven't seen one at all despite diving the same sites around the same frequency.
Not sure how many others have been spotted by other groups especially around Octopus, Lima Rock and perhaps Ras Marovi?
Had Dolphins playing around the boat at Ras Sarkin - I dropped in the bay with a faint hope of seeing them underwater. Apparently they came towards us, but the vis was so bad if they'd have been more than 6m away we wouldn't have seen them.
The rest of the group had a high current mediocre dive on the sea wad side of the point, whereas in the bay we had very little flow, but lots of life. 2 large Rays, 2 eagle rays, turtles and schooling barracuda.
Next heading up there in Sept hopefully two trips
