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This year saw the club ventured back to the Red Sea, this time to the middle region, around Safaga. The members involved in this trip were:
| Rick Blatchford | Julian Danton | Simon Parker | Steve Thomas |
Jetting off from Gatwick to the notorious Hurghada we were eagerly awaiting our first sight of the liveaboard we'd booked for the week, our mouths slabbering at the promised luxury of the cruiser, the MV Oyster. On arriving at the dock we set eyes on her... a beautiful boat and certainly more luxurious than the previous years Princess Dalal (obviously we'd paid for it). Link to photos.
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DIVE CALENDER
| Dive No | Date | Dive Location | Dive Time | Max Depth | Decompression |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22/05/1999 | Ras Disha | 50mins | 12.1m | 2@6m |
| 2 | 22/05/1999 | Tobia IV | 57mins | 16.3m | 2@6m |
| 3 | 22/05/1999 | Tobia IV | 61mins | 12.4m | - |
| 4 | 23/05/1999 | Abu Kafan | 34mins | 45.7m | 4@6m |
| 5 | 23/05/1999 | Abu Kafan | 44mins | 35.0m | 4@6m |
| 6 | 23/05/1999 | Shabb Sheer - East Side | 58mins | 19.0m | - |
| 7 | 23/05/1999 | Shabb Sheer - East Erg | 50mins | 19.0m | 3@6m |
| 8 | 24/05/1999 | Salem Express | 42mins | 29.1m | 3@6m |
| 9 | 24/05/1999 | Salem Express | 41mins | 30.0m | 3@6m |
| 10 | 24/05/1999 | Salem Express | 32mins | 31.9m | 5@6m |
| 11 | 24/05/1999 | Middle Reef, Halhalal | 22mins | 11.7m | 2@6m |
| 12 | 25/05/1999 | Paradise Reef, Panorama | 51mins | 43.3m | 20@6m |
| 13 | 25/05/1999 | Panorama, West Side | 64mins | 34.1m | - |
| 14 | 25/05/1999 | Abu Hasshish | 46mins | 30.4m | 3@6m |
| 15 | 25/05/1999 | Small Gifton | 42mins | 15.4m | - |
| 16 | 26/05/1999 | Small Gifton | 42mins | 40.2m | - |
| 17 | 26/05/1999 | ? | 53mins | 20.7m | - |
| 18 | 26/05/1999 | Gota Abu Ramada | 62mins | 12.7m | - |
| 19 | 26/05/1999 | Gota Abu Ramada | 40mins | 12.9m | - |
| 20 | 27/05/1999 | Lucky Corina | 54mins | 33.2m | - |
| 21 | 27/05/1999 | El Mina | 40mins | 29.4m | - |
| TOTALS: | 6 DAYS | 14 locations | 985mins / 16.4 hours | Avg: 27 metres | - |
So, quite a bit of diving on this
holiday - upto 4 dives a day is quite exhausting but well worth it. For the
amount of diving we were doing it may have been sensible to take a day off - if
it were a two week break this would have been mandatory.
More information on the Safaga region of the Red Sea and the Salem Express can be found at the following links:
DiverNet
article: Danke schön, Safaga
DiverNet
article: Express exploration
DiverNet
article: Red Sea Secrets
DiverNet
article: Red Sea A-Z
All photos provided by Rick Blatchford other than:
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