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Location: Muscat (Oman)
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4 Mermaids Cove With 1 votes(s).
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6 Wall Street With 1 votes(s).

Marine Sightings:

Based on data from your reviews for Muscat. we know the following about the marine life you can expect to see.
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Reviews:

Here are the last 10 reviews for Muscat. Show all of them.

Visited Comments
April 2009 Omani Dive Centre really welcoming and friendly (didnt feel left out or anything despite having no buddy with me). Soon teamed up with Steffan, and we arranged to do all our week's diving together. Oman is nice easy diving, warm and little current. Absolutely pristine coral and teeming with sea life, very untouched. The taxi driver on the way back to the Chedi (very nice hotel!) asked me why our British Muslims were all so crazy, giving them all a bad name, he said.
Date posted: 27-Dec-2012 15:49 by: Shiva
March 2010 I saw the review from 2006 about the diving near Oman being average. We went to the Daymaniat islands last year and it definitely was. Visibility is low, the reefs are Ok but there is a lot of fishing net in some areas. Saw amazing numbers of fish though, masses of morays and a couple of turtles. Enjoyed my trip but wouldn't go back.
Date posted: 14-Apr-2011 14:15 by: mariedives!
February 2006 Diving was very average - was disappointed as was expectung to be taken to the Damanyiat islands as promised but we were not. Still Oman is a great country with plenty else to offer if you like ancient cultures, deserts and off-roading
Date posted: 11-Mar-2011 00:28 by: dmakarem
November 2006 Omani Dive Centre really welcoming and friendly (didnt feel left out or anything despite having no buddy with me). Soon teamed up with Steffan, and we arranged to do all our week's diving together. Oman is nice easy diving, warm and little current. Absolutely pristine coral and teeming with sea life, very untouched. The taxi driver on the way back to the Chedi (very nice hotel!) asked me why our British Muslims were all so crazy, giving them all a bad name, he said.
Date posted: 02-Jan-2009 19:51 by: OtherOne
April 2004 Good for rays, triggerfish, morays, cuttlefish
Date posted: 09-Feb-2008 05:54 by: Sam
August 2007 Oman is a lovely dive - learned to dive there in 2001 and have been back a couple of times since. Love it.
Date posted: 04-Jan-2008 23:08 by: Stonefish2
June 2007 the cyclone had recently done it's worst when we arrived. The people & dive centre worked incredibly hard to rebuild the damage on land. The visibility was not good but we did see lemon shark, turtle, sea snakes & all the usual reef life. Take extra sun screen as the temperature was well over 40c.
Date posted: 08-Jul-2007 21:11 by: Caz
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Date posted: 18-Jun-2007 16:56 by: Trevor
March 2006 Lots of Moray Eels of many different varieties. Fishes larger than their Red Sea equivalents, probably due to the plankton in the water, which in turn made the visibility poor. Large cuttlefish, stingrays, various nudibranches and lots of turtles. Divemaster described dive route and competant divers allowed to dive with buddy. This allowed us to go at our own pace and investigate what we were interested in. Only once met another dive group so no difficulty in finding your boat when you surfaced.
Date posted: 11-May-2007 21:44 by: Chris & Barbara
November 2006 Nice sheltered alcove to dive from. water was 29C in November! Water was clear and light - beautiful
Date posted: 28-Nov-2006 20:35 by: Genghis


Wreck Dives:

Here are the wreck dives we know of for Muscat.

Al Munassir
Ranked as OK by independant reviews Ranked as OK by independant reviews
An ex-Omani Navy tank landing craft purposefully sunk in 2003 as a haven for divers. The Wreck is easily accessible. From the upper deck there are two vertical lift shafts down to the lower deck where most of the rooms to port and starboard are open. The bridge including the wheel house, ops room and communications room can be explored.
8m / 26ft
30m / 98ft
Deliberately sunk: 21-Apr-2003 Wreck penetration is possible. Technical or decompression diving. More info...
Diver reviews for Al Munassir:
Every hole had a resident Moray. Large shoals inside the boat but difficult to see in poor visibility - 4m at best.
Date posted: 11-May-2007 21:51 by: Chris & Barbara who thought that: Anyone can dive this wreck.
Ranked it as: Ranked as OK by Chris & BarbaraRanked as OK by Chris & Barbara
Easy Access and good openings
Date posted: 19-Dec-2006 20:21 by: Roland who thought that: Anyone can dive this wreck.
Ranked it as: Ranked as OK by RolandRanked as OK by Roland
Easy access down a mooring buoy, propellers at 30m, lots of fish life around, I would dive it a few more times if I went back
Date posted: 04-May-2006 11:49 by: Jonathan who thought that: Anyone can dive this wreck.
Ranked it as: Ranked as OK by JonathanRanked as OK by Jonathan