Michael Werle
Had an intro dive on the Great Barrier Reef in 1998, loved it, so went up to Darwin to visit a mate for a couple of weeks and do my Open Water certificate. From there I spent a week in Indonesia, then a few more dives in Brisbane and my Advanced Open Water and Wreck Specialty certificates. After that I moved to the UK, where it's too cold to go into the water. Finally got some diving in again when I visited Heron Island with a mate in 2012. Now trying (and failing) to go diving at least once a year. Just moved to Tokyo in 2018 and have picked diving up again. I even decided to bite the bullet and get my own BCD & Regulator and this has been a great incentive to go diving more often - nearly every weekend so far!
Places I've Dived
- Total number of dives not on diveboard:
This number is added to the total number of dives logged in Diveboard (public+private) for the stat "Total number of dives". - Dives published:146
- Total dives count:146
- Dives this year:0
- Total underwater time on Diveboard:4 days 17 hrs 43 min
- Most dives on Diveboard in:
Australia - Deepest Dive:
41.4m in Moreton Bay Area, Australia - Longest Dive:
96 min in Maumere, Indonesia - Pictures in logbook:1
- Number of species spotted:2
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Favorite Dives
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2018-11-25 Japan Izu Peninsula, IOP
IopBuddy-dived with Phil, but tagged along with Florine and Shengnan. Florine had told us about a great site with large soft coral. Had to wait a little while for Shengnan to sort out her buoyancy, then for a first stop we headed to the postbox. I posted a card to Tanya and another card which I had taken down from another diver and nearly lost! We then swam to the cave, had a poke around that, then kept going. I was a little confused because when we looked at the map, Florine had insisted that was the spot. We kept following Florine until Shengnan was down to 110 bar, at which point I signalled that I would take Shengnan back, but it got lost in translation and the entire group turned around. Found a huge anemone with lots of clownfish, a couple of the standard ones and a big group of the smaller black-and-white ones. I had always thought these were the young, but Florine later said they're a different species. We then spent a very long time at ~5m; in retrospect we should have spent some more time elsewhere as we all came back with over 60bar left.
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My Certifications
- PADI Enriched Air Diver (Dec 2014)
- SSI Advanced Adventurer (Dec 2012)
- NAUI Advanced Open Water (Jun 2001)
- NAUI Open Water (Aug 1998)
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