Dive | Date | Location | Max. Depth (m) | Dive Time (mins) | Dive Company | Remarks |
1 | 26/10/2002 | Dahab point, Dahab, Egypt | 10 | 35 | Seven Heaven | Introductory Dive. Entered from shore. Felt relaxed and loved colours of corals and fish. |
2 | 09/12/2002 | South reef, Watamu, Kenya | 12 | 35 |
Scuba Diving Kenya |
PADI Open Water No.1. Vis. ~8m. Boat dive. Blue spotted ray. |
3 | 10/12/2002 | Tewa reef, Watamu, Kenya | 14 | 47 | PADI Open Water No.2. Vis. ~8m. Boat dive. Nudibrancs. Partial & complete mask clearance, cramp removal, snorkel / reg exchnage, tired diver recovery, regulator recovery, fin pivot, AAS use & ascent, buoyancy check. | |
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Canyon, Watamu, Kenya | 18 | 36 | PADI Open Water No.3. Vis. ~15m. Boat dive. Shoals yellow snappers. C.E.S.A., clear full mask, fin pivot, oral inflation. | |
5 | Moray Place, Watamu, Kenya | 18 | 37 | PADI Open Water No.4. Vis. ~15m. Boat dive. Touched Giant white moray eel, white mouthed moray eel. Remove & clear mask, free descent no belt, remove / put on scuba set on surface, buoyancy, compass, remove / put on weight. | ||
6 | 15/01/2003 | Kande Island, Lake Malawi, Malawi | 11 | 58 | Aquanuts | Fresh water and altitude dive. Entry from dinghy. Various cichlids. |
7 | 21/02/2003 | A frame, Simonestown, South Africa | 9 | 35 |
ProDiver Cape Town |
Shore entry. Kelp forest, through tunnel. Visibility ~5m. Difficulty to equalise due to hood. Temp ~20C. Unpleasant dive. |
8 | Clan Stuart wreck, Simonestown, South Africa | 8 | 30 | Shore entry, trawler 40m length, visibility ~5m. | ||
9 | 01/05/2003 | 2 Mile reef. Sodwana Bay, South Africa | 14 | 40 | Coral Divers | Inflatable boat, sea temp 24C, visibility ~10m, 1st turtle, leapard moray, poorly organised. |
10 | 19/05/2003 | Manta reef, Tofu, Mozambique | 24 | 30 | Manta Divers | Inflatable boat, sea temp 24C, visibility ~15m, Adventure dive - 1st deep dive, |
11 | 10/12/2003 | Century Bay, No.3 Ribbon reef | 17.6 | 35 |
Explorer Ventures, Nimrod catamaran Live on board Great Barrier reef, Australia |
Mill pond conditions. Problems with my mask leaking. Visibility ~15m due to coral spawning. Sea temp ~26C. |
12 | Joaney's Joy, No.2 Ribbon reef | 9.6 | 16 | Advanced dive - Peak Performance Buoyancy, Visibility ~15m. Sea temp ~26C. Yellowfin goat fish, Parrot fish, | ||
13 | Steve's Bommie, No.3 Ribbon reef | 19.6 | 16 | Cicumnavigated bommie from bottom up in spiral, mask continually flooded so surfaced leaving Lorraine. Diagnosed mask too high, need space below nose. | ||
14 | 11/12/2003 | Tak's Mooring, Ribbon reef | 31 | 30 | Advanced dive - Deep. Shoals of large trevally. | |
15 | Clam Gardens, No.5 Ribbon reef | 9.6 | 44 | Advanced dive - Naturalist. Beautiful large clams, stag horn coral. | ||
16 | Tower of Tomoko, No.8 Ribbon reef | 19.4 | 32 | Wall at 19-15m, 2nd crevis into and return on top. Large schools yellow tailed fusilier. | ||
17 | Challenger bay, No.10 Ribbon reef | 10.7 | 43 | Advanced Dive - Night. Best dive so far. Big eye trevally kept company. Lion fish, epaulette shark, white tip reef shark, cuttlefish, red bass, barrimundi cod, leapard sea cucumber on tail spawning. | ||
18 | 12/12/2003 | Pixie Pinnacle, No. 10 Ribbon reef | 16.4 | 42 | Anticlockwise spiral up pinnacle. Purple & orange anthias, flame file shell. Shoals of barracuda and humbugs. Damsels, sergeant majors. | |
19 | The Monolith, No. 10 Ribbon reef | 19.7 | 43 | Advanced dive - Navigation. Did square route and 55 secs / 25m & 30 kicks / 25m. Surgeon fish. dorid nudibranc | ||
20 | Cod Hole, No. 10 Ribbon reef | 16.7 | 38 | Friendly Potatoe cod also maori wrasse, white tip shark, smooth flutemouth. | ||
21 | 10.5 | 39 | Curent increased so quite hard work, Box fish. Snorkelled 25m to boat to ensure >50bar. | |||
22 | 21/12/2003 | SS Yongala, near Townsville, Australia | 23.9 | 36 | Adrenalin Dive | Circuit of wreck, mast, cargo holds clearly visible. Very dense shoals of fish and fish larger than other sites. Trevally enormous. Snakes (that are poisonous) and bat fish. |
23 | 22.6 | 37 | Calm conditions, sea temp 30C visibility 10m, current developed from stern to bow. Guitar shark (shufflenose ray). | |||
24 | 20/08/2005 | Bokissa North reef, Vanuatu | 17 | 50 | Bokissa Island Dive | Boat dive. Sunny & calm. 12lbs weight. Sea 27C visibility 15m. Anne buddy. Explore length of reef near shore. Boat met at end. Good buoyancy except 2 sharp rises that recovered from. Saw Wahoo, flute, anemonefish. Good fan & brain corals. |
25 | 12/08/2006 | Seals, Jervis Bay, Australia | 19 | 14 | Abyss Diving | Boat dive. Sunny but choppy since near cliffs. Close encounter with several seals.; very freindly Excellent visibility. 16C. Waiting at anchor & clearing mask used much air. Anne aborted dive since not equalize. |
26 | 12/08/2006 | The Wall, Bowen Island, Australia | 14.5 | 28 | Abyss Diving | Boat Dive. Traversed wall off island. 15C. Sunny & calm. Hood and cold make equalizing difficult but OK. Watched turtle for couple of minutes. Weedy Sea Dragons and several Port Jackson sharks. |
27 | 02/09/2008 | Dili Rock, Dili, East Timor | 14 | 32 | Dive Timor Lorosae | Shore Dive. Trouble equalizing. 1 to 1 with Nicole who ran through refresher tests. Next dive could not equalise thus cancelled planned dives in east Timor. |