Monday, March 28, 2011

OSWI - Lilli Pilli & Camp Cove

Another OWSI course this weekend with no photographs this time:

San Souci- pool
Lilli Pilli - Saturday afternoon
Camp Cove Sunday- a late day!

Robbie and Kate
Simona and Christian

Robbie Girdler

Kate Silver

Kelpie who didn't tag himself on FB


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Monday, March 21, 2011

Poor Conditions cancel diving

March 19th was scheduled to be a dive at Voodoo but on the day a reported 4M swell from what appeared to be every direction closed out most sites.
The King tide from the moon being the closest it has been to the earth for 20 years meant The Monument and Sutherland Point would have been out of the question.

All things considered, despite the huge rainfall it was a dry weekend as far as diving was concerned.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Open Water 5th & 6th March 2011

This weekend Brett Poole and  I took 5 students through their PADI Open Water certification and 1 person on a DSD (discover scuba diving)

(Left to Right) Kate, Soojin, Ben,Alex, Brett,  Maria, Me and Jeff

The weather was quite cloudy and the swell was up which is good and bad respectively for diving. We spent the first 2/3 of Saturday in the pool completing confined water dives 1-4 before heading off to Lilli Pilly for our first open water dive.

The whole crew off for their first open water dive at Lilly Pilly

The visibility was quite good and I managed to get a few pictures of the students on their first dive. Brett and I took the group along the shark net at Lily Pilli and out across the reef. There are some really nice areas along here and the visibility was about 5M which was OK given the ocean conditions and the rain.
Jeff DeLong
Alex Overholt







Maria with Alex in the background
Soojin Chung with Brett just out of shot
Kate Godwin
Ben Godwin


Alex, Jeff, Maria and Brett
Day 2 had a perfect diving day for us at Bare Isalnd. The visibility was 15- 20 M at times, a treat usually only reserved for the colder months.
We completed open water dive 2, 3 and 4 and everyone successfully entered the ranks of PADI open water scuba diver.
They are a really nice group of people and I would love to go diving again with them. I know Maria, Jeff and Alex are all going back overseas soon so I wish them well and hope they have many great dives.

Me, does my face look fat in this- Newsflash! :)




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