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26/02/2020
A tad late – again – but, a pity not to share a few photos from our last trip North to Terry’s! After the Holibobs, illnesses, family commitments and a fairly hectic work schedule, it was great to have most of the ‘Gang’ back on board! With a great start to the day, we were greeted by a huge pod of dolphins (12-15), before we even arrived at the Coastguard Barge…unbelievable, I have never seen them that close to shore, before. The conditions both above and below, were in stark contrast to our previous trip: flat calm, 10m + vis, no BIG fish (apart from a few friendly hamour), and humongous tides and strong current. Hardly surprising with the Wolf Moon making its annual appearance the previous night! Nonetheless, my group of 3 rebreather-divers, managed to soldier on down, even if it did take us about 10 minutes to reach the bottom.☹ Although there weren’t many fish, the highlight was a huge shoal of Queenfish bombarding me and Robert at the Cleaning station☺ Photos by Danny (testing his new lens), so really looking forward to some of his work this season, and Karim…see if you can spot the extremely 'rare to Qatar’ nudibranch, which he has only seen, once before! Obviously, as a highly accomplished ‘nudi-spotter’, I obviously did☺ Weather not looking good, yet again, for the weekend, so Advanced Wreck training it is☺
The sheer number of fish at Terry’s today, more than made up for the lack of vis, for SCUBA-Q’s first dive of 2020. Hamour, Queen Fish, Jacks, Barracuda, Trevally – you name it, they were there…unbelievable! Two, one hour dives on the rebreather made it even more special…indeed, being bubble-free, is probably why everything, including a small shoal of eerie barracuda followed me and buddy, Robert, almost the length of the wreck. Despite all of the BIG stuff, the highlight for me, was a V friendly juvenile stingray who’d had its tail bitten off. I got within inches of it, and it just swam aimlessly (with a total loss of balance – probably, because of its missing tail), between me and Robert – so, so funny – and I have it on film☺ A bit scatty, no navigational-skills, zero buoyancy or trim, cute, but rather ugly, a small tail, and no hair, we have decided to name it ‘Patrick’!
16/12/2019
Forgot, we had 4 different rebreathers on board, perhaps a Qatar record? With 2 more joining, it will perhaps be a 'world record':-) For sure, someone will enlighten us! Hands off your hips sailor!
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