CDA Licence No 81 Issued 04/09/2017 cda_licence_81_dsdc.pdf
DSDC in Dubai
DSDC is a group of divers, based in Dubai, who love Scuba Diving. We are not a holiday company or a dive centre, we are a not for profit social club with a major diving habit. All our divers have their own kit and are already qualified. Although we are mainly a British Sub Aqua Club, we welcome divers from all agencies.
We meet weekly, mostly on a Monday, to socialise and plan the next weekend’s diving click here How to Find Us. The club has access to boats on the West and East coasts and frequently charters fast boats and Dhows in the Musandam. Occasionally members organise club trips abroad. As most of the sites around the UAE that we visit regularly are over 20m deep, we highly recommend anyone who is Padi Open Water to get their AOW before joining our club.
Because we contribute towards the costs involved in using the private boats, and need to stay licenced, we charge a membership fee, which starts at 1300 aed for a year for divers, but if you are a regular diver, club diving is still good value for money, especially when you add in the network of
people that make up the club. There is nothing better than driving out of harbour for a few hours, knowing it is totally your choice where you are going and how long you will stay out.
In Dubai we have access to the many wrecks the Gulf has to offer, from Ludwig and Lion City off Abu Dhabi, to the more accessible Neptune and Jumbo and north to the Dara and Victoria Star. Unfortunately the Energy Determination is currently off limits due to border issues, but we have
dived there in the past and we are slowly starting to be able to dive there again.
Off Fujeirah we have days where we do not go far and stick to Deep Reef, with its sea snakes and corals, and Inchcape 10, which is within sight of the harbour and has its own shoal of fusiliers and a couple of resident porcupine fish. Other days we head up to Inchape 1 at 30m or Coral Corral, which
is much much shallower and has some fabulous table corals. For the technical divers, the Ines is very accessible. If the sea is flat and you start early, you can even get up to Dibba Rock.
DSDC has a good relationship with one of the Musandam charter companies, so we sometimes charter day dhows, which take around 20, or fast boats, which hold 8 divers, from Dibba. These are more cost effective than just signing up for a public boat and we have a little more say on the sites.
The day dhows offer chilled out diving with room for families, while the fast boats have gone up to the Coins to Fanaku and Salamah Islands in the past.
The club relies on members to organise diving and so we work together, forming strong and lasting friendships who offer advice, help with new skills and can be called on for anything from thoughts on the next piece of kit, possible new dive sites, or even relocating pets!
Hope to see you at a social soon, or even better, on the water.
Petra Walker
Chair Desert Sports Diving Club
DSDC in Dubai
DSDC is a group of divers, based in Dubai, who love Scuba Diving. We are not a holiday company or a dive centre, we are a not for profit social club with a major diving habit. All our divers have their own kit and are already qualified. Although we are mainly a British Sub Aqua Club, we welcome divers from all agencies.
We meet weekly, mostly on a Monday, to socialise and plan the next weekend’s diving click here How to Find Us. The club has access to boats on the West and East coasts and frequently charters fast boats and Dhows in the Musandam. Occasionally members organise club trips abroad. As most of the sites around the UAE that we visit regularly are over 20m deep, we highly recommend anyone who is Padi Open Water to get their AOW before joining our club.
Because we contribute towards the costs involved in using the private boats, and need to stay licenced, we charge a membership fee, which starts at 1300 aed for a year for divers, but if you are a regular diver, club diving is still good value for money, especially when you add in the network of
people that make up the club. There is nothing better than driving out of harbour for a few hours, knowing it is totally your choice where you are going and how long you will stay out.
In Dubai we have access to the many wrecks the Gulf has to offer, from Ludwig and Lion City off Abu Dhabi, to the more accessible Neptune and Jumbo and north to the Dara and Victoria Star. Unfortunately the Energy Determination is currently off limits due to border issues, but we have
dived there in the past and we are slowly starting to be able to dive there again.
Off Fujeirah we have days where we do not go far and stick to Deep Reef, with its sea snakes and corals, and Inchcape 10, which is within sight of the harbour and has its own shoal of fusiliers and a couple of resident porcupine fish. Other days we head up to Inchape 1 at 30m or Coral Corral, which
is much much shallower and has some fabulous table corals. For the technical divers, the Ines is very accessible. If the sea is flat and you start early, you can even get up to Dibba Rock.
DSDC has a good relationship with one of the Musandam charter companies, so we sometimes charter day dhows, which take around 20, or fast boats, which hold 8 divers, from Dibba. These are more cost effective than just signing up for a public boat and we have a little more say on the sites.
The day dhows offer chilled out diving with room for families, while the fast boats have gone up to the Coins to Fanaku and Salamah Islands in the past.
The club relies on members to organise diving and so we work together, forming strong and lasting friendships who offer advice, help with new skills and can be called on for anything from thoughts on the next piece of kit, possible new dive sites, or even relocating pets!
Hope to see you at a social soon, or even better, on the water.
Petra Walker
Chair Desert Sports Diving Club
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