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Last Update August 21, 2008

 

 

 

The desert island group we frequent in the N. Farasan Banks about 70 km west of Al Lith.

(photo of the ship’s GPS navigation screen)

 

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FARASAN BANK WHALE SHARK ENCOUNTER  June 5, 2008

I had waited all my life for this moment!!!

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Farasan Banks August 2004  The Adventure Begins (201 mb video-8mm)

 

Snorkeling the reef at Marmar Island

 

August 2004: Big Wind and Big Seas drive us to shelter at Abu Latt Island- an exumed fossil coral reef!

 

Abu Latt Island:  Dream Voyager offshore

 

Abu Latt Island: Successive fossil reef shoals

 

Reddog Daddy (Doug Cook) on top of the world on Abu Latt Island.  Where is Robinson Crusoe?

 

John Weatherburn sharing the adventure on top of the world on Abu Latt Island

 

Abu Latt Island Video  (110 mb) by James Vandervyver 2004

and geologic interpretation by Dr. Aus Tawil (Saudi Aramco)


Farasan Banks June 2005   The Adventure Continues (115 mb video- DV Digital)

 

Select Still Scenes from June 2008

 

 

Dhahran Diving Association

 

Diving the Saudi Arabian Red Sea with Dream Divers in Jeddah

 

 

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