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sglake, walter... I have not yet had the opportunity to teach a JOW course and therefore have not read up on the standards for that course. Nor did that question come up in my GSAP exam. Now, I wonder if you can honestly admit to reading the inst manual cover to cover. I also wonder if you have...

I feel MISLED! My whole life as an instructor I believed the depth limit for a PADI Junior Open Water diver aged between 12 and 14 was 12m/40ft! On a trip the other day I was speaking to a fellow instructor who challenged me to find that restriction anywhere in the PADI instructor manual. Well...

Just dived Hablayn, Octopus Rock and Lima Rock with Freestyle Divers. There was red tide up there but not the thick **** you get around Dibba and Khor Fakkan. Under 2m it went back to normal. Saw leopard shark, loads of giant honecomb morays, turtles. Nothing too exciting, but the enormity of...

Eric, I recon you have gone and got your hopes up so high for a diving holiday to Oman that any level of professionalism would have dissappointed you. Boats being confiscated in this neck of the desert is not unheard of. The coast guard change their rules on a weekly basis without informing...

Hey there I had the same situation a few months ago. I found a solution with Freestyle Divers. They also had a minimum amount of passengers however they had a minimum revenue for the trip of 1000dhs. Therfore you and your wife will just need to pay 500dhs each if no one else books on, and, if...

If anyone is interested, The guys at Freestyle Divers organise a fantastic day trip up to the Musandam by either fast boat or Dhow. The Dhows are slower but are alot more spacious. The fast boats can get you further up the coast. The are open to enquiries! Just give them a call on 09...

The sharks are definatly back on Dibba Rock. We saw 4 there yesterday. We decided to go with Freestyle Divers as they are right in front of the Island so it would not be a long boat ride, just in case there was any red in the water. The water was clear (6m-7m) and the team there said it had...

Just to let you know that the red tide seems to have gone. I was diving Dibba Rock yesterday with Freestyle Divers (00971 9 2445756) in the Royal Beach Hotel and we saw 4 blacktips, too many turtles to count, ++. I went to dive the Dara ,which is an old wreck off the coast of Umm Al Quwain...