Sydney, Australia

Harley Mellifont Dived on: Clifton Gardens - 8m, 120min Posted on 03/04/16 at 09:06

Went with Greg for a dive at Clifton Gardens. The dive went for about 2 hours in total, we saw lots of cephalopods like octopus and cuttlefish, pygmy leatherjackets were courting and fighting off competing males, there were plenty of nudibranchs, a painted anglerfish and a tentacle held my hand! Oh, and there were seahorses and green moray eels too. All in all a really great dive. Towards the end of the dive I began to get cold, but I kept filming and got a lot of great footage. I also manage to find a scuba knife, so now all I need is to find a holster and my kit feels more and more complete all the time. I tried different settings with the gopro this time. I used 2.7k resolution at 30fps and spot metering. I think I'll keep these settings. The extra resolution helps a whole lot, and I don't miss the higher frame rates. Spot metering seems like it helped keep exposures in reasonable ranges given the spot lights we've been using on the dives.

Maddy Dived on: Bare Island East - 12m, 55min Posted on 25/03/16 at 09:00

First dive with my newly repaired regs and tank! Finally my own kit. I feel really secure because I know how to put it all together and we adjusted my BC so I wasn't rolling around in the water like I was last dive. First dive at the east side of the island. Pretty easy entry but I find getting down the rocks on the way to the water pretty hard carrying so much weight. I read some articles about buoyancy and trim, so I decided to try and cut my weight back. 2 pounds less and my buoyancy and trim were a lot easier to maintain. I think I've been fighting the weights on other dives, which is exhausting. My second stage also doesn't bleed air anymore. I had the same amount of air left at the end as the boys! We saw a giant cuttlefish guy and a tiny little boxfish that looked like a well propelled bubble, lots of big swarming schools of catfish, and some beautiful red and purple and gold fish.

Gary Dived on: Bare Island West - 14m, 53min Posted on 11/11/18 at 17:45

Wind ENE, blown out at south Maroubra- very flat at Bare Is. saw sting ray, fed urchin large Grouper Followed ridge West at 10m just past the boat ramp, saw amazing overhangs - with deep caves (up to 20m viz). Saw quick Port Jackson on way back. Easy shore dive. Low tide at 17:35.

Ruthy Dived on: Bare Island - 11m, 47min - With Simon Smith from Deep 6 Diving Posted on 09/10/99 at 12:40

Saw 3 weedy sea dragons! A scorpion fish, 2 greedy blue gropers, Port Jackson shark. 1 of the sea dragons was a male with eggs. Excellent dive. Ran into some creepy jellyfish while doing compass navigation on the surface. Arrr!

RichardA Dived on: Old Mans Hat - 23m, 36min - With Ben from Pro Dive Manly Posted on 03/12/17 at 09:33

very cold underwater booked for Magic Point but due to murky water because of recent rain moved to alt site