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Local Dive Reports 2011
| Site |
Date |
Report |
Sea Temp |
Vis |
Depth |
| Vobster |
17th December |
A trip to Vobster for the last dive of the year. A few hardy souls braved -5°C crossing Salisbury plain to reach our destination and then surviving the ice-covered concrete. The group split in two for the diving, with the first going off for a look round the aircraft and the crushing works while the other used one of the training platforms to carry out the Advanced Diver rescue drills for two students.
Visibility was poor by Vobster’s standards, only 3 metres. Water temperature 7°C. Depth 20 metres.
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7 |
3 |
20 |
| Dorset Weekend |
August 19th - 21st |
Shore diving in Studland bay looking for seahorses, visibility 1-2m, max depth 2.5m
Fast drift off Old Harry rocks, rays, dogfish and smoothhound, vis 6-8m, max depth 15m
Swanage Pier, tompots, vis 3-5m, max depth 3.5m
Aeolian Sky, tompots, pollock, bib, jewel anemones, vis 10m, max depth 30.7m
Black Hawk, corals, inquisitive wrasse, vis 8-10m, max depth 20m
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17
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1-10
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2-30 |
| Dive week |
July 11th-15th |
We dived each day though high winds forced us to dive from the beach on Tuesday instead of the planned dive on the Sappa. Occasional bright sunshine and winds mostly from the west, north and northeast.
Patch Landing Craft (17m)
Selsey Lifeboat Station (5m)
Tanks and Dozers (20m)
Plaice Beds Drift(13m) + East Beach Elf Garden (4m)
T'Pot (20m)
Not such a great week for the crabs and plaice! |
18 |
3-8 |
4-20 |
| Bracklesham Bay Landing Craft |
June 4th |
Comments :- Easterly winds again, so diving was contained to the West of Selsey. 11 divers out this morning.
Surface Conditions:- Strong NE winds, slight sea swell with good surface visibility |
15 |
2-3 |
7-8 |
| Lifeboat & Outer Mulbery |
May 13th-15th |
A few of us manged a sneeky dive on the Friday. A trip out to the Old Lifeboat Station.Saturday and Sunday we dived the Outer Mulberry as we could not do our planned dives due to the weather. Our trainee Dive Leaders received instruction as part of their continued training. Good dives but looking forward to the plankton clearing. |
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| Outer Mulberry |
May 8th |
Dived from Freedom, moderate SSW winds with a choppy sea.Heavy plankton in water reducing the visibility. Several Cuttlefish see. |
12 |
2 |
10 |
| Outer Mulberry |
Sunday 17th April |
A flat calm sea and no wind, perfect for diving We have changed the ground chain this week, so divers can swim from the mooring buoy straight to the bouyancy chamber Although the water temperature is still only 10degC, fish life is starting to return to the Mulberry Lump Suckers are in abundance (a shore sign that the water is still cold) The plankton bloom has started early and is reducing the visibility down to 5-6M |
10 |
5-6 |
10 |
| Selsey |
April |
Those of us that did not make it to Cornwall also had a busy time. We managed to squeeze in five boat dives from Freedom and a couple of shore dives. Dive sites included the Teapot, Outer Mulberry, the Obstruction and the lifeboat station. Beautiful weather. |
11-14 |
3-8 |
5-17 |
| CORNWALL |
April |
9 of us ventured west this year in what was to be the best Penzance trip the club has organized Flat calm seas with light NE winds all week, perfect conditions for getting wet!Dived every day on all the popular sites;
Low lee 18M
Alice Marie 27M
Lincoln 30M
Joshua Nicholson 19M
Mooreview 27M
Average visibility was 8M with at least 10M on the Lincoln Water temp a chilly 11degC Dolphins seen on the Runnelstone Reef as well as a Grey Seal on St Clements Island |
8-10 |
11 |
18-30 |
| Lifeboat |
April 8th |
Five of us dived on the 6pm slack.
The viz was 3-5 metres and the water was a not too bad 11 degrees.
Frisky nudibranchs were in abundance, eggs everywhere. Plenty of scorpionfish, pipefish and wrasse. The dahlia anemones appeared huge.
Carol was modelling her new drysuit - a lovely shade of amethyst. |
11 |
3-5 |
4.8 |
| Club Mombasa Holiday Dive Report |
January 2011 |
6 of us dived with Buccaneer Divers situated at Voyager resort in Mombasa
Most of our diving was on the outside of the reef, a 20 minute boat trip from the dive centre.
15 dives over the 2 week holiday
Water temp 26degC in light NE winds
As with all diving in the Indian Ocean there was plenty of marine life to see;
White tip Sharks
Turtles
Baracuda
Moray
Wreck diving was on the MV Dania, an artificial reef sunk several years ago, this site is the home to several Yellow Lip Grouper |
26 |
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