Was not sure where to post this in the main forum or in the Gulf area of Middle East section, anyway this area seems appropriate.
We were the first boat to arrive at a popular dive site called "Martini Rock" which has a mooring for the dive boats. General practice is that if you are the second boat you tie on to the boat already on the mooring, third boat on to the second and so on if there are more boats.
There are several moorings at the UAE east coast dive sites intentionally put there to avoid anchor damage to the corals and the environment.
When I surfaced after my dive, one of the divers, Dave, from my boat was having a major verbal altercation with the skipper of of another boat that was sitting off to our port side.
Apparently this boat had used an anchor and narrowly missed the guy who was giving the guy what he deserved.
There is not really much recourse to incidents like this over here but personally I am going to report this to the Emirates Diving Association (EDA) and see what happens.
1. It is dangerous when divers may be and this case were in the area
2. There are moorings placed to avoid the use of anchors for the reasons mentioned above.
Dave, whom I had just met today for the first time, was really pissed off, however by the time the SI was over he had calmed down to enjoy his second dive. I then heard a story back at the dive centre of another incident where one of their guests was actually hit by an anchor at the same dive dive site a few months ago :shocked2:
Just wondering how frequent these incidents occur elsewhere.
We were the first boat to arrive at a popular dive site called "Martini Rock" which has a mooring for the dive boats. General practice is that if you are the second boat you tie on to the boat already on the mooring, third boat on to the second and so on if there are more boats.
There are several moorings at the UAE east coast dive sites intentionally put there to avoid anchor damage to the corals and the environment.
When I surfaced after my dive, one of the divers, Dave, from my boat was having a major verbal altercation with the skipper of of another boat that was sitting off to our port side.
Apparently this boat had used an anchor and narrowly missed the guy who was giving the guy what he deserved.
There is not really much recourse to incidents like this over here but personally I am going to report this to the Emirates Diving Association (EDA) and see what happens.
1. It is dangerous when divers may be and this case were in the area
2. There are moorings placed to avoid the use of anchors for the reasons mentioned above.
Dave, whom I had just met today for the first time, was really pissed off, however by the time the SI was over he had calmed down to enjoy his second dive. I then heard a story back at the dive centre of another incident where one of their guests was actually hit by an anchor at the same dive dive site a few months ago :shocked2:
Just wondering how frequent these incidents occur elsewhere.