North Stradbroke Diving

Just as a quick aside, I went diving on the weekend with a bunch of uni people on North Stradbroke. It was an amazing couple of days weather wise.

Dive 1:
Site: Flat Rock
Start pressure: 220 bar
End pressure: 50 bar
Bottom Time: 50 min
Rate: 3.4 bar/min
Max depth: 26m
Visibility: +20m
Conditions: Calm, light swell

Dive 2:
Site: Manta Bommie
Start pressure: 230 bar
End pressure: 55 bar
Bottom time: 47 min
Rate: 3.72 bar/min
Max depth: 13.1m
Visibility: 20m
Conditions: Strong current outside of dive site, some surge

Fauna: Manta Rays, leopard sharks, wobbegong sharks, Octopi, small rays, green turtles, nudibranchs, Moray Eels, puffer fish.

Highlights: Lying face down in front of a leopard shark and just watching it. Watching Matt B razz up a puffer fish so it blew up. Manta ray (even though it was in the distance). Swimming with a turtle.

We stayed on North Stradbroke over the weekend and had a great time just hanging about. After the trip I think we were all pretty exhausted and needed another weekend.

Photos from the weekend can be found here

Desperately wanting a housing for my D200 now.