Capt Nitrox

Captain nitrox 

Port Phillip Wall Dive, very good vis on a great part of the wall.

View of divers at 15 metres from 1 metre below surface

Buddies on this dive were Lynne, Simon and JJ

Dive 294

Dragons Lair

Dragons Lair

(Catchup with Alicia back from the UK )

Despite the name sounding very similar to a number of the wall sites inside the heads, this dive site is just outside of the heads and sits in around 10-20 metres with bommies being the major landscape features and weedy sea dragons proving the name.    

Although a passable dive on a really good day , the location and close proximity to shore means on any sort of conditions it is simply a terrible dive site for a boat dive, with strong surge, low vis and generally uninspiring landscape, and especially as on this dive the shot line was on the outer rim of the bommies due to conditions close in.    

One of the few dives that I will definitely try to avoid in the future as not worth the investment of a boat dive, I also do not recommend it as a dive site for OW divers, simply due to the nature of the dive and the general disappointment they experience when so many other great dive sites exist to grow their excitement for the sport exist. Diving buddy on this dive was Stephen , with group being Simon, Alicia Rick and Amanda. 

Dive 293
Time:39 minutes
Depth 21 metres

The Grotto

The Grotto Dive

A Dive Vic boat dive near the heads of port phillip bay, starting at 12 metres with a nice easy slope downward to around 25 metres. A great dive for both new divers and experienced with a diversity of marine life including blue devil fish, rays and lots of great soft corals, swim throughs and trenches.

Dive 292
43 minutes
24.1 metres.

Buddies: Lynne, Mary-Anne, Jonathon

Blairgowrie & Rye Pier Dives

Blairgowrie and Rye Pier diving

An ideal day of diving piers in melbourne.

Start at Blairgowrie see all the Nudi's and a blue ring octopus!  then lunch and refill at RYE followed by a relaxing pier dive at Rye with nice big smooth rays and sea horses, followup with a quick celebration drink at rye pub! 

Thanks Greg for organising!

Scallop Dive

Quick Scallop Dive on Christmas Eve.

With Lynne,

A Scallop dive is an interesting way to collect scallops if you are interested in eating them.
A fisheries licence is required , so get it on line before hand .
The dive site is just off rye and then drifts back toward Sorrento in around 10 metres.
Just remember to look for ones that close as you approach so you know they are alive,
Also think about who is cleaning them afterward!
Due to nature of dive no photos of dive itself.

Blairgowrie Pier with a new strobe!

Blairgowrie Pier.

With Craig Morton and Craig Slattery.
As always an interesting dive.
But even more fun trying out my new Sea and Sea strobe.

Dive 288

Time 1:15 minutes

Camera rig: sony rx100, Recsea housing, Sea and Sea YS-D1, Sola 2000, Ikelite pro2800  , UW fish eye.

(first use of D1 strobe, so some shots learning rather than interesting, overall very happy for first use)

Quick Recovery dive

Quick recovery dive at mordialloc with JJ,
dive objective to recover boat bow rail lost by friend in recent mishap.
Camera for this dive was simple canon s95 rig, with hand held sola light.

Mordi play dive with JJ

Play time with JJ.
A quick dive with JJ to do some shots for his xmas cards.
Vis was very poor after the rains in recent days.

Dive 286

Time 45 minutes

Flinders Pier

Flinders Pier
With Craig and Steven.
Even though it was raining in Melb and windy.
The offshore wind at Flinders meant it was flat seas.

Sea Dragons, Rays and plenty of Fish life, make for a great dive.
  

Blairgowrie

Welcome to Summer 2014!!
Blairgowrie Pier

Great dive to welcome summer with
Craig +2, Lynne, Simon, JJ, Remi, Stephen

Dive 284

Time 75 minutes