Understanding, enjoying and caring for our oceans
I was staying at the Point Turton Caravan Park during a heatwave at the end of December 2007. I wanted to dive at Magazine Bay on this trip. I may have gone there late on 30th December to do just a reconnaissance snorkel to see what the area was like. […]
To quote Sara Criddle from Facebook, “It’s still there!” I refer to the Western Crested Morwong, Goniistius gibbosus (aka WA Magpie Morwong), that has been sighted at Port Noarlunga jetty and reef this year. As I reported in Observations made during our recent dive at Port Noarlunga Reef, “Western Crested […]
Our dive plans at Port Noarlunga reef on 24th March didn’t quite go to plan, but then we had a chance to make a few observations during our swim back to the jetty in low visibility conditions. One such observation concerned this Zebra Fish that had quite a ‘hump-head’: – […]
As I reported in my (forthcoming) April 2023 column “Southern Waters” in Dive Log magazine, I don’t have any cave diving experience myself, other than snorkelling in Piccaninnie Ponds and diving in Ewens Ponds. (The header image was taken from a TV screen) Me at Picaninnie Ponds I only ever […]
Whilst diving at the old Rapid Bay Jetty on 25th October I saw the first decent aggregation of the Great Spider Crab, Leptomithrax gaimardii that I’ve seen for some years now. There were probably more than 200 crabs seen by us today, and there would have been more outside our […]
We held our CAPT. Nobby Buckley Memorial Dive at Edithburgh Jetty today (22nd December 2021). Let me explain. I made my first dive trip to the Yorke Peninsula in June 1979. It was a (MARIA) club trip to Edithburgh; probably the first time that I had seen the jetty there. […]
Diving with Old Friends by Robert Rath Diving under the old Rapid Bay Jetty is often just like catching up with old friends, mostly good fun but sometimes leading to unexpected and beautiful surprises. Normally divers avoid currents, the biggest risk being swept off a dive plan and getting lost. […]
A B-17 Flying Fortress called “Black Jack” has been laying 48m of water off of Papua New Guinea since WWII. I had not heard of “Black Jack” at all until I picked up an old video cassette titled “Black Jack’s Last Mission” at a second-hand goods shop several years ago. […]
David Muirhead and I did a dive with three others at Rapid Bay jetty on 9th March 2018. Three of us dived whilst two women just snorkelled. It was a sunny day, and the sea was flat calm. The water was 21-22°C and the vis was fair. My bottom time […]
We did our inaugural Annual Scoresby Shepherd scuba dive on Saturday the second of October. We had stated during Scoresby’s final farewell from PIRSA/SARDI last March that we would hold an annual dive in Scoresby’s name. Dr Scoresby Shepherd Dr Scoresby Shepherd AO was born 22/1/1935. His Officer of the […]