Muscat, the capital city of Oman, sits just north of the Tropic of Cancer, on the coast of the Gulf of Oman between the Arabian Gulf in the west and the Arabian Sea in the east. The coastline offers ...

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I was six metres under the sea when Dr Matthias Hammer tucked me firmly under his arm. I wasn't about to argue – mainly because I couldn't speak – but also he was bigger than me and a former soldier ...

Adam Ruck attended a PADI open water course in Oman "Congratulations on deciding to dive!" said my instructor Doris, dumping a heavy textbook on my desk at the Oman Dive Centre, on a narrow inlet half ...