Thanks Paul. I know the area fairly well having been 4 years in Al Ain. I have even dived myself around there and stayed at Sandy Lodge. I knew it before the Meridien came.
In fact I was over there last September, and know the amount of building that has taken place in the last 5 years or so.
Of course, it is one of the areas where the HP42 Hannibal might have crashed in 1940, between Karachi and Sharjah. The big mystery. All points to it being in the sea, but one never knows! I never found it though.
However, getting back to the Wellington, if you have a friend who knows the situation in the 1970s I would be very interested to hear.
Laurence