Episode 8

Paddling with Salah Al Jabri and The Jewel of Muscat

Salah Al Jabri is an ambassador for Oman Sail, he served 26 years in the Royal Navy of Oman and in 2010 captained the voyage of the restored Arabian dhow, Jewel of Muscat from Muscat to Singapore.

Salah is a man of the sea and is joining Mark for 4 days paddling on the Oman 3165 Expedition. At the end of day 2 they sit down together on dry land under a tree and talk about Salah’s life on the ocean. They discuss the challenges of leadership, seamanship and the weather that the Jewel of Muscat voyage presented to Salah. Both Mark and Salah compare and contrast the transition back to life ashore or at the end of expeditions and look positively to the future about how they can inspire the next generation of young Omani seafarers with a museum that celebrates Oman’s rich maritime heritage

 Watch the story of the Jewel of Muscat

Discover more about the expedition and track Mark at Oman 3165

The Oman 3165 podcast is produced by Adventurous Audio

Sandwich Tern recorded by David Darrell-Lambert and used with permission under Creative Commons licence

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Oman 3165
A seventy-day, human powered carbon neutral journey around the coastline of Oman in a 5-metre boat

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The creative partnership behind Adventurous Audio is Pennie Latin Stuart and Dan Holland. We worked together as a team at the BBC for years—45 between us—producing an insane range of content, covering every conceivable topic from comedy to hard-hitting documentaries, food, the arts, science, music, sport and outside broadcasts, for just about every audio corner of the BBC - BBC Sounds and BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 4, Radio 3 and Radio 2.