Ain Al Heet Cave

Ain Hit Cave is not only famous as a site for diving in the desert. The oil men immediately spotted the Bahrain cap-rock above the entrance.

In 1902 King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud stopped here to water his camels before recapturing Riyadh with his tiny force of 40 men. Thirty-six years later the same king brought two oil engineers to the very same spot for an outing. One of these men was Max Steineke who noted that the water level in 1938 was up at the entrance level (137 meters higher than it was in Greg Gregory’s 2002 survey). This was a l  ...