Sunday morning i got to share a dive with a first time drysuit diver. There is nothing better than when a person gets out of the dive and says things like. WOW, warm toasty, is this sweat. Keeping people diving in Melbourne is challenging at the best of times, seeing someone discover drysuits you just know that have a lot of ewarm comfiortable diving adventures ahead of them.
Haveing not dived under Portsea pier for a while it has certainly chnaged dramatically just like above the water. A steep slope now as you enter from the beach, very soft sand makes entries and exits tricky. The surge has definately increased and there are rocks where rcks never used to be. Having said that though we still mangaed a good 60min and Jen got to play around withher drysuit, inflating deflating, simulating lots of problems. We also got time to see the stuff pictured here and some other things as well. During our dive we saw, sea dragons, globefis, scalyfin bioth adult and juvenile, red bait crabs, common stingarees, pipefish, juvenile magpie perch, a couple of shaws cowfish and some nice greelip abs which inside Port Phillip are proctected.