With the Southerly weather bomb blasting Wellington and the East coast of the South Island on Friday, all the Christchurch based dive shops headed up to Marlborough to dive with their students. Testament to how protected the Sounds are from such weather events and that even in the most severe weather conditions diving is still good and safe.

Both Saturday and Sunday were sunny and clear with water visibility in the Inner Sounds hovering around 6 to 8 metres. However that is nothing to the 30 metre plus visibility we encountered in the Riwaka Caves yesterday. The Riwaka resurgence would have been the lowest I have seen it for quite some time, leading to very clear water existing cave, if I had a straight view and a super powerful light I reckon I would have been able to see 50 plus metres.

LIMESTONE POOLS INSIDE THE RIWAKA CAVES

Interestingly, in the back chamber there seems to have been a large rock fall brining down part of the roof, along with some rather large boulders. The main limestone formations though remain untouched thankfully.

Next weeks Lermontov Lodge trip still has two places on it if your keen, some of the team are planning some deep penetration so should be a good weekend. I can be contacted on 0800 GODIVE if your keen on coming along.

Have a good week.

cheers

Brent

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