Superb visibility Wednesday 27th October

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After 2 days of south westerly winds, we descended to superb visibility at Cathedral, with at least 25m visibility.  4 raggies were spotted at Cathedral.  A superb drift dive along the outside edge up towards Pinnacles, where, now and again, the waves were breaking on the Pinnacles, indicating the remainder of a rough ocean. Our […]

Wednesday 27th October 2010

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After 2 days of south westerly winds, we launched with a light north easterly starting to blow.  At least 20-25m visibility on the reefs, a moderate to strong S – N (reverse) current, water temperature 22 degrees C.  We had swell and surge at some points due to 2 days of south westerly winds.  At […]

Tuesday 26th October

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Today is the 2nd day that all boats have been blown off the water by the buster south westerly wind that came through in the early hours of Monday morning.  By 09h00, the wind speed was 20 knots, picking up to 25 knots by 11h00 and gusting up to 40 knots in the late afternoon. This morning […]

5 shark species in just 2 days!!

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Well what can we say………………….we have had the absolute privilege of 5 shark species in just 2 days of diving.  Here is how it goes…………..Yesterday, raggies @ Landers on the reef dive.  2 Zambezi (Bull) sharks & 15 blacktips on the baited dive. Today’s reef dive at Cathedral produced 12 raggies in the amphitheatre, 3 […]

Dive conditions 13th October

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Despite a weather forecast of a strong NE wind, we awoke to no wind, which remained for the most part of the day!!!!  What a nice difference from yesterday.  On our reef & baited dive, there was NO current, visibility around 20m and water temperature of 21/22 degrees C.  Simply stunning day on the ocean […]