Dive Log
A log of my visits to the underworld of our oceans.
A handful that stayed with me.
Dahab point, Dahab, Egypt
Introductory Dive. Entered from shore. Felt relaxed and loved colours of corals and fish.
Kande Island, Lake Malawi, Malawi
Fresh water and altitude dive. Entry from dinghy. Various cichlids.
Tak's Mooring, Ribbon reef
Advanced dive - Deep. Shoals of large trevally.
Challenger bay, No.10 Ribbon reef
Advanced Dive - Night. Best dive so far. Big eye trevally kept company. Lion fish, epaulette shark, white tip reef shark, cuttlefish, red bass, barramundi cod, leopard sea cucumber on tail spawning.
SS Yongala, near Townsville, Australia
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.
Every dive, in order. Depth and bottom time on the right.
Introductory Dive. Entered from shore. Felt relaxed and loved colours of corals and fish.
PADI Open Water No.1. Vis. ~8m. Boat dive. Blue spotted ray.
PADI Open Water No.2. Vis. ~8m. Boat dive. Nudibranchs. Partial & complete mask clearance, cramp removal, snorkel / reg exchange, tired diver recovery, regulator recovery, fin pivot, AAS use & ascent, buoyancy check.
PADI Open Water No.3. Vis. ~15m. Boat dive. Shoals yellow snappers. C.E.S.A., clear full mask, fin pivot, oral inflation.
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.
Fresh water and altitude dive. Entry from dinghy. Various cichlids.
Shore entry. Kelp forest, through tunnel. Visibility ~5m. Difficulty to equalise due to hood. Temp ~20C. Unpleasant dive.
Shore entry, trawler 40m length, visibility ~5m.
Inflatable boat, sea temp 24C, visibility ~10m, 1st turtle, leopard moray, poorly organised.
Inflatable boat, sea temp 24C, visibility ~15m, Adventure dive - 1st deep dive,
Mill pond conditions. Problems with my mask leaking. Visibility ~15m due to coral spawning. Sea temp ~26C.
Advanced dive - Peak Performance Buoyancy, Visibility ~15m. Sea temp ~26C. Yellowfin goat fish, Parrot fish,
Circumnavigated bommie from bottom up in spiral, mask continually flooded so surfaced leaving Lorraine. Diagnosed mask too high, need space below nose.
Advanced dive - Deep. Shoals of large trevally.
Advanced dive - Naturalist. Beautiful large clams, stag horn coral.
Wall at 19-15m, 2nd crevis into and return on top. Large schools yellow tailed fusilier.
Advanced Dive - Night. Best dive so far. Big eye trevally kept company. Lion fish, epaulette shark, white tip reef shark, cuttlefish, red bass, barramundi cod, leopard sea cucumber on tail spawning.
Anticlockwise spiral up pinnacle. Purple & orange anthias, flame file shell. Shoals of barracuda and humbugs. Damsels, sergeant majors.
Advanced dive - Navigation. Did square route and 55 secs / 25m & 30 kicks / 25m. Surgeon fish. dorid nudibranc
Friendly Potato cod also maori wrasse, white tip shark, smooth flutemouth.
Current increased so quite hard work, Box fish. Snorkelled 25m to boat to ensure >50bar.
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.
Calm conditions, sea temp 30C visibility 10m, current developed from stern to bow. Guitar shark (shufflenose ray).
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.
Boat dive. Sunny but choppy since near cliffs. Close encounter with several seals. very friendly Excellent visibility. 16C. Waiting at anchor & clearing mask used much air. Anne aborted dive since not equalize.
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.
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.