ChristianG
22-03-2009, 07:55
A comment on another thread made me reflect on this. We all have memorable dives, and I'm sure that this has been done before here as well as elsewhere but, to my knowledge, not recently here.
I have, of course, many memorable dives including the hairy ones, but this one wasn't. Here goes:
A group of us were hanging about at Terrigal Haven (http://www.terrigaldive.com.au), what the bottom arrow points to. It was a balmy, totally windstill, day when one of us, I know him well but it doesn't matter here suggested that we should do a night dive and proffered Two Poles as the venue. We all thought this a particularly good idea and so it went.
There were three boats eventually to get all aboard, and we had marked the Dive Site beforehand (this is pre SatNav, hence the name of the Dive Site) consisting of the Terrigal Diver hardboat (IIRC FOC) and two ducks, some 15 divers.
The viz was impossibly good, some 25 metres at least and my burning memory was indicating to my buddy that he should turn his torch off. We were a little way from the other divers on the small wall, from which came the dim glow of torches. Then we looked up and there, nestled together, were the harboat and the two ducks, with a full moon glowing down to us between them.
Absolute bliss, neither of us wanted to surface - ever again.
For the technically minded it was a maximum 18 metre dive, unless you brought a shovel.
I guess that it's a telling example of the lack of need to go deep, not that I take heed of that.
I have, of course, many memorable dives including the hairy ones, but this one wasn't. Here goes:
A group of us were hanging about at Terrigal Haven (http://www.terrigaldive.com.au), what the bottom arrow points to. It was a balmy, totally windstill, day when one of us, I know him well but it doesn't matter here suggested that we should do a night dive and proffered Two Poles as the venue. We all thought this a particularly good idea and so it went.
There were three boats eventually to get all aboard, and we had marked the Dive Site beforehand (this is pre SatNav, hence the name of the Dive Site) consisting of the Terrigal Diver hardboat (IIRC FOC) and two ducks, some 15 divers.
The viz was impossibly good, some 25 metres at least and my burning memory was indicating to my buddy that he should turn his torch off. We were a little way from the other divers on the small wall, from which came the dim glow of torches. Then we looked up and there, nestled together, were the harboat and the two ducks, with a full moon glowing down to us between them.
Absolute bliss, neither of us wanted to surface - ever again.
For the technically minded it was a maximum 18 metre dive, unless you brought a shovel.
I guess that it's a telling example of the lack of need to go deep, not that I take heed of that.