Dive Number: 162 05/06/11 10.41, St Leonards Pier
Wind: westerlies???
Tide: 4hr after 0.33 low tide at the heads (10.33 slack)
Conditions: Choppy, surgey, current-tity, nasty conditions.
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: 13c
Bottom Time: 30minutes
Max Depth: 8.7m
Air usage: 70bar/1000psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: For some reason i decided to dive cottage on slack…its never worked for me before and it didn’t work for me today. In fact this was probably the worst conditions i’ve ever dived cottage and it made for a really unenjoyable dive. The most dangerous part of diving cottage above a 0.70 or so tide is that the shoreline reef is submerged, so you can easily be pushed onto the reef by the swell, especially on exit when the swell is up and stirring up the sand. This old Ug boot is about as good as it got. I ran into a couple of melbourne-ites after the dive who needed a second dive and were keen on on diving cottage regardless of how bad i told them it was. They didn’t show up on the news, so i presume they survived the journey.
Camera Details: Canon 100mm , single SS200 strobe.
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