For anyone who thinks that sharks are anywhere near the most dangerous thing about diving, check out the scene on the road, we figure about 10 minutes after we passed the very spot in dense fog trying to make our 10 a.m. meet-up time 3 hours away in Dibba, Oman. Fog is not at all unusual on the coastal road between Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the early morning, drivers here blast through it at 140 km per hour, and this kind of dozens-of-cars pileup has happened twice in the last couple of years on the same highway.
But we made it to the coast safely where we got in the boat with Nomad Ocean Adventure and ran up Musandam where we dove Ras Morovi and Pearl Island. We had two very nice dives, no students (bless em :-). On the first one we got to go all the way around Ras Morovi down to 30 meters at the far end. Lots of Moray eels, a huge crayfish well exposed between two rocks, and in the cave I always check in, behind the veil of fish fry that are also always there, a ray hiding with his tail sticking out so I would know he was there.
The second dive on Pearl Island was another pleasurable one. I like this site. I always do it the Michael Diver way, north around the point and then east across the sand to pick up the far island. It was full of big fish all aswirl. We were first in off the boat both times and seemingly had the ocean to ourselves except where we encountered others toward the end of each dive coming the other way.
Very relaxing and enjoyable for just Bobbi and I for a change :-)
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