Comments: Mother of Mouse was reputed to be a dynamite site with strong currents, but we were there at a slack time and fish were also absent. We did see an eagle ray to start with, plus a big honeycomb moray, and a long mullet seaward we all thought might be a shark at first. Not a lot besides that and pretty coral. Not worth the day I should have been packing better for my trip.

Surface interval duration planned:

Surface interval duration actual: 2 hours

Comments: Turned out to be a sad dive. We were dropped on the submerged stack with plans to swim to the big one, but the current was against us, so we drifted east away from Stack and saw not much in the way of fish among the yellow and blue coral. A lot of plankton in the water so vis was very poor, and the plankton left a smelly seaweed mess. We we turned toward stack we had to fight current. Swam west nevertheless, judged we 'd missed it and surfaced south of it. Surface swam toward it, Charles not into it, swimming wide, missing the rock, not concentrating, resisting going below 6 meters. I went to 12, lost Charles, found him, snagged my SMB on a rock, had to surface a 2nd time to free it, getting pretty disgusted when Charles found a scorpion fish attached to the vertical wall. Unusual. Still we surfaced shortly after that. Poor end to a long, disappointing day.

Drove home, arrived at 10 at night., left at 11:30 for Dubai airport and South Africa. Discovered I'd left dive card with gear to dry.