HMAS Brisbane Sunshine Coast Scuba Diving Reports
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Dive HMAS Brisbane Report 12 February 2009 to 19 February 2009
Once again we have seen some beautiful conditions on the HMAS Brisbane amid some ordinary weather the past week or so. Yesterday was absolutely glorious with a good 15 metre visibility out at Shellacy Reef and 27C water temp. Congratulations to the open water students who completed their course and what a bonus to finish with conditions like that. The weather forecast had a lot of people scared off but with no wind and ‘flat as’ seas all day proved them wrong.
This weekend looks like a bit of a challenge. There is one glimmer of hope with one of the models predicting a drop off of the wind on Saturday morning, for a few hours, building again in the afternoon and then easing a bit on Sunday. The BOM prediction is for gloom and doom all weekend. As always, we’ll just watch it day by day, look at what’s happened today, what all the predictions are, and then look out the window and make a call.
The beauty of diving from here is that if the weather does go belly up suddenly, it’s a short ride back from the wreck of the HMAS Brisbane to safety into port. The other comforting thought is that our dive boat, 2EZY, can handle the seas very comfortably and being a twin hulled design, means that the vessel is quite stable and feels very safe in any sort of sea conditions. The room on the boat makes for quick and easy gearing up and entry into the water. The 3 ladders, 1 on each side and 1 at the stern, allow for quick and easy to exit the water as well.
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Dive HMAS Brisbane Report 30 January 2009
Some wind and swell may have put some divers off this past week, but for those who just want to get out there and dive, well, they reaped the benefits that’s for sure. 30 metres viz on the HMAS Brisbane on Monday and viz in excess of 20-25 metres for the rest of the week was only part of the spoils. The real excitement was that we had a visit from a 3 metre gentle giant, female grey nurse shark. She hung around for 3 days and then made her way off into the distance. She was obviously used to divers around as she was totally unperturbed by the diver’s presence. All divers were briefed to move slowly and to be sure that they didn’t intrude into her personal space. This caused some interest on behalf of the shark and she would very slowly and gracefully circle past the awe struck divers. This was then followed up by clear water again on Thursday and a visit by a 4 metre wide manta ray. This beauty played around in front of the divers for 10 minutes or more towards the end of their dive. Everybody was on a real high after all of the excitement.
This weekend looks like similar weather to what we’ve had during the week, diving the Brisbane. We’re all willing the clear water to stay. Some wind and swell will be present but for those divers who are organised with their gear and have everything adjusted and ready to put on when at the dive site, will not be troubled. Diving from our boat, 2EZY also makes diving in this type of weather a synch. Be aware of your position in the water in relation to the boat, be organised, get under the surface as quickly as possible and that takes any stress out of diving in a choppy sea. Dive HMAS Brisbane with Sunreef.
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HMAS Brisbane Dive Report 22.01.2009
Well the weather this year compared to the same time last year has been a welcome relief to both divers and scuba dive operators alike.
Apart from the odd windy day that whipped up some swell, the conditions, on the whole, have been good. Visibility has come good with 15-20 metres and water temp. on 25C on the incoming tide at The Caves. Viz (Visability) around Mudjimba Island drops a bit unless you are there on the flooding tide as well.
The diving on the HMAS BRISBANE has produced reports of 15 metre visibility with 25C water temperature. There’s still plenty of life on the BRISBANE with some species coming and going but there’s always something there to replace whatever moves away for a time.
There’s still plenty of fishing tackle being found on the ship too, in spite of the “no go” zone and promise of activity by the authorities which just doesn’t seem to be happening.
Dive Safe,
Greg
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There’s been some fantastic diving lately. Viz from 15 up to 25 metres on the HMAS BRISBANE and water temperature hovering between 23C and 24C go together well and make for some awesome diving.
Even Mudjimba Island has turned in some good viz as the water has been very blue recently. Plenty of marine life is to be found around the HMAS BRISBANE still, in spite of the illegal fishing that goes on. We’ve seen a number of our resident friends disappear, presumably on the end of a fishing line. It would be nice to see the authorities get serious about policing the area. We have so many rules to comply with to enable us to enter the conservation park and then more to comply with when we dive plus the thousands of dollars that are levied against all divers we take there, yet the policing is a question mark in my mind.
As has been found in many other areas when closures have been enforced, if maintained and policed, then there is a spill over in time, onto neighbouring reefs and everybody wins. This is what is supposed to happen with the HMAS BRISBANE but never seems to quite make it.
Dive Safe,
Greg
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Stiff northerlies that weren’t originally predicted for the weekend hit hard on Saturday. In spite of the wind, as there was no swell only a bit of surface chop, we were able to keep all of our Melbourne visitors happy.
Visibility picked up over the weekend to end up with a good 20 metres on the HMAS BRISBANE and water temp of 23C to match. Whale songs were heard from the late travelers heading south back to their home territory for the summer. One whale put on a great display for one of our dive groups, they were very impressed.
A night dive off Mudjimba Island went down well also. It was a bit slow getting across to the island but once there, the protection offered by the island made for a comfortable anchorage. A little less viz could be expected in close at the island but it sparked up again on the Sunday morning to give us 10-15metres.
We say good bye on Tuesday to the 3 groups from Melbourne who were here for a few days and by all reports, will be back again next Melbourne Cup weekend. Thanks for visiting our great Sunshine Coast.
Dive Safe
Greg |
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