SALALAH, SOUTH OMAN DIVING HOLIDAYS

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Diving In Dhofar

After a return into a glorious past through the ruins and after the enchantment of the nature, it’s time to enjoy the beautiful beaches and the crystal-clear waters of the Indian Ocean.

This Dhofar Coast is an ideal diving holiday destination during the cold European winter. The season for diving Dhofar is October – May. The other half of the year the southeast monsoon (Khareef) brings rain and unsettled conditions. The temperature of the water most of the year is round 23-24 degrees.

As most of the dive site are shallow (max. 15 meters), this area is great for divers that are looking for long relaxed dives with lots to see and to photograph. Diving is pretty much undiscovered here and therefore the corals untouched. Marine life is typically Indo-Pacific offering a variety of macro life, and schooling fish; you could often see turtles, giant morays, all kinds of rays. There are also three wrecks at a max. depth of 10 meters. The wrecks have been there for more than 100 years and therefore fully overgrown with corals. Many of the potential sites accessed by boat are yet to be fully explored, offering something for the more adventurous diver, as most diving has been conducted from the shore until this point.

Diving the Dhofar Coast is either Liveaboard diving in Oman, with the opportunity to range around sites beyond the reach of most day boats, or Landbased diving in Dhofar based in a comfortable resort hotel with both day boats and shore diving available. We offer landbased diving from bases in Mirbat, set on a remote stretch of coastline, and from Salalah, close to Salalah town itself.