Diving on the Outside

17th May 2007

Great boat, great crew, great location…Love the seal and the scooters but I’ll leave Doc to elaborate!!! I shall return…Muito obrigado. Charles B

Outside is better than inside. Great diving but the crew is even better. Captain Mick does the best ‘head jobs’ at night. Lyn repairs all malfunctions. Ken & Ken take care of the tanks and Carly Carly’s cooking is from Heaven with a capital H. Your flying Dutchman, Rene.

This is my fourth trip and it gets better and better.

Discovered the motorized scooters and they are fantastic.

Zoom zoom around at 100 miles an hour with hardly any finning.

No wonder I never ran out of air. Covered ten times the territory!!

Best kept secret in the diving fraternity.

Complimentary as well. Unbelievable.

Better than sex.

I want one.

Gourmet food ad liub.

Lyn looked after me as usual. Oxygen is great for hangovers !!!

The Manly mob are a great lot of fun divers.

Can not wait to come back.

Dear Mick and Lyn please put me on your standby waiting list.

Thank you for a lovely fub filled weekend.

Best Wishes

Doc.

(Dr Stephen Secheny) 17 to 20 May 2007.

 

Thank you for a great weekend I really enjoyed the boat, meals and crew.

All six dives we went on were fantastic.

Thank you very much Dave.

Once upon a time there was an intrepid and excitable diver. This divers mission in life was to travel the earth exploring the wonders of the underworld and documenting for the less fortunate known as non divers.

This diver whilst on his extensive travels stumbled upon a place known as Jervis Bay. Given he was looking to explore the ocean he noticed a worthy sea vessel named OceanTrek. He felt this was the hand of fate and quickly paid his fare and boarded the vessel.

The lines were cast and Priscilla pushed off headed for the Mother Ship…. Once aboard, the safety briefing was done. "Now don’t forget your regulator and if you see any really large sharks hide under a rock!". Words of wisdom from the fair maiden Lyn.

The lights went out, the drinkers drank and the sleepers slept. The sun rose on a ruggedly windy day and the action began.

Out intrepid diver hit the water at Crocodile Head Cove and was almost overcome by the surge. His breathing was erratic and wild, his nostrils flaring in his mask as he struggled for supremacy over the elements. In the end the watery depths triumphed.

Luckily our heroes luck changed and changed fast. The second dive saw him leaping in at Spider Cave. The leap of faith was truly complimented by the scooter thrust in his hands. He quickly thumbed the button and bubbles full of thrills exuded from his regulator. What did he see on this dive? Who cares! He was the man of the hour and no surge could stop him!!

Dive 3 saw our man and his buddy breaking new ground at Ruined lighthouse Cove. Unexplored as it was they made it there duty to scout the area and map it out. Well how about just scout it and have lots of fun. They bumped into giant cuttlefish. It was friendly to them but the Ivan and Dave didn’t find it quite so accommodating. They moved forward through large schools of fish, glorious fans, amazing scorpion fish, large Morwong and many other unsuspecting locals. Another great dive.

Then it was up top on Ocean Trek. Soaking rays, building strength ready for the next challenge known as the night dive. Only the hardcore would be able to contend with the doom.

Being the thinker he was he borrowed a fellow divers light known as "under water fire". The team of 6 descended slowly. One beam of light pierced the watery shades with 5 small pin pricks of lighting following. They wandered those rocky depths searching for life of which there was an abundance. There were Weedy Sea Dragons, Cat Eels, Giant Sea pike, Bream and a plethora of other amazing creatures. We all survived intact and ascended without loss of life or limb. What a successful day!

Day 2 saw an early rise for sunset. It was a superb occurrence with the Suns rays illuminating the earth around our adventurer.

Dive 1 saw an ambush style attack. Our paratrooping divers struck the water in quick succession. 1,2,3,4,5 and on and on . The fish didn’t have a chance. There was so much commotion a Seal tried a sneak attack but of course our sheer numbers overwhelmed him and he ended up swimming with us instead. We saw more weedies, loads of schooling fish and of course the Doc. The vis was incredible as was the dive. Of course we were triumphant.

Dive 2 was following in the footsteps of dive 2. After the success of the sneak attack of dive 1 we tried it all again. We hit the water in a wave and dropped quickly to 25 meters. There were more weedies, fiddler rays, Eastern Blue Devil fish, Scorpion fish and on and on and on. It was a fitting way to end the conquering reign of the quintessential explorer. Great people, beautiful diving and of course glorious Jervis Bay!! Thanks guys.

Tim Lassig – QLDer at heart, but Sydney Resident

20/5/2007