Conditions have been ideal for diving lately. Visibility has been hovering between 15 and 25 metres which is just extraordinary. The water temperature did drop to 22C but has come up to 23C again. The sea conditions have been excellent with little swell and very little wind. Some forecasts have put some of our local divers off but we watch the weather closely, look at a couple of other predictions other than the Bureau of Met,

 take all predictions on board and then make our call. The Buoyweather site has been very accurate with their wind and sea predictions we’ve found. So we’ve been able to get in some great diving that maybe we would have cancelled if we hadn’t taken all aspects into consideration.
Dive Safe.

We’ve lost so many days due to poor weather since Christmas eve, loosing more days through wrong forecasts is just a bit hard to cop. The huge Queensland Groupers have been spotted on almost every dive, Eagle Rays, crays, nudibranchs, anemone fish sweetlip and more. The divers have been coming back grinning after every trip. The Gneering Shoals has produced some excellent diving of late too. The viz  there has been consistently good, 15+ metres. Some very impressed divers who have dived many Great Barrier Reef and overseas high spots, have expressed their amazement at the quality of diving that we’ve got here off our Sunshine Coast.

We’ve had many overseas visitors and a group of divers from a Newcastle Dive shop who have all gone away from here happy with the diving that they have experienced. The night dive on Saturday night was a winner once again. Doing a dusk dive on the HMAS BRISBANE first and following it up with a night dive once the sun has set, is the formula for a great dive, as this one was.
Here’s hoping that the weather holds for the coming long weekend.