Well heaps has been happening here at Scuba Shack with Specialties well on the way. The Night Diver Specialty students will be finishing their night dives on Monday evening and the Deep Specialty students will hit the water off Too Easy on Saturday. Good luck guys and have fun!
We are now taking bookings for the Advanced Adventure Course for 8th and 9th August so be quick as only 4 spots are left on that one.
Just a reminder if you wanted to come along to the Clair meet and greet drinks at the Beachcomber on Friday night please dont forget to call the shop. And if you cant get enough of us, Clair will be hosting a sausage sizzle on Sunday after the club dive at 1pm. BYO Drinks.
For those keen for another trip away we have a Nelson Bay Extreme Specialty Weekend coming up.. So keep your eyes open for that one! Its a must do weekend!
Those who are lucky enough to be coming along to the Coolidge with me, your final payments are due. Can you please make arrangements to come in and get that all finalised.... WOOO HOOO CANT WAIT!
Well thats about enough from me. Hope to see many of you on Friday night. Until then "Race you to the Surface!"
LAST WEEKENDS CLUB DIVE DEBRIEF
Warren, Demster, Justin (the new trainee DM) and myself (Allen) all jumped in the water just before 11:00 am for a drift dive in Swansea Channel. The water was a brisk 16 degrees ( but I didn't feel it in my Super Semi Dry) and the vis was great at around 8 mtrs, the current was steady and made for a nice paced, leisurely drift dive in great conditions. There was quite a bit of marine life around, the usual suspects such as squid, occys, morays and quite a few fish. Try as I might I couldn't find the Pineapple fish anywhere. When we exited the water 50 minutes after entering it everyone was commenting on what an awesome dive it was and how keen we all were to jump back in and see what the bridge had to offer.
After a short break Jeff arrived and poor Justin had to go and work (oorh! Sorry Justin). So Jeff, Demster, Warren and I jumped in at 1:00 pm for what was a really fantastic dive under Swansea Bridge with vis up to 15 mtrs it was absolutely awesome, there where baby cuttlefish, snapper the size of Marlin (well almost), a whiting that was the biggest I have ever seen and just fish life everywhere. Including an Occy that was busy building his little garden around his home and was quite protective of a large shell he had, well until Demster wanted it more and the Occy gave in and swam off in a flurry :-).
Due to the small tide of 1.23 mtrs we were able to enjoy a 56 minute dive under the bridge in what was absolutely amazing dive conditions. I haven't had 2 great dives in a row like that in a long time (well not in Australia anyway). I can't wait to see what next weekend has in store.
CONGRATULATIONS NEW STUDENTS
Congratulations to our newest certified divers - Kelly, Chelsea,Jacob and Josh!
Saturday took us to mingara pool for the start of their in- water antics and after several hours of bubble blowing and playing around with their scuba gear. I knew, as their instructor..I was on a winner! This was going to be one of those courses we love to teach...!!!
After the pool we headed down to Terrigal Haven for their first Ocean Dive experience and we had absolutely brilliant conditions. The guys did really well ...although during a buddy check, Jacobs buddy (who shall remain nameless, but was male) got a little confused with the tank valve...(easy to do) and turned Jacobs air off instead of on...nice...Jacob is still alive to tell the story so all ended well!!
We headed back to the Haven on sunday only to find that conditions were nowhere near as pleasant as the previous day and a fair sized swell had picked up but vis wasn't too bad and the surge on dive one and two was tollerable ...however when it came to our third dive the surge was quite strong (think Tsunami!!) and by the time it came for us to turn around and head back we found that as hard as we finned not much was happening...time for some new dive skills to be taught.... the 'grab a rock and pull yourself along to shore " method was introduced , One of the girls mastered this skill beautifully and then added her own twist to it ... this was called the "the every man (or woman) for himself' method!!
She roared past us like a steam train over the top of me and on to shore!! Infact she did not stop when she hit the shore and i can honestly say that I have never seen anyone crawl up a beach as fast in my life!!!!! I am sure she would have kept going on to the car park if we had not stopped her!! Don't worry , they all enjoyed the experience and Kelly has even signed up to do her advanced course in August! Well done guys and I hope to see you diving with us again soon! - Clair
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