Even with a brisk 35 knt South East blowing and bumpy surface conditions, we had three very nice dives on the Lermontov on Saturday. The the vis was up to 10 to 12 meters on the first dive and slightly less on the second and third dives. Fish life was pretty good with  number of carpet sharks seen on the top of the wreck and plenty of other reef fish.

Paul, Rob and Jann arrived from Mana in the North island in Derek’s 6.5m boat on Friday evening, I think they were grateful to make landfall given he choppy conditions in the Cook Straight, their return trip on Sunday was much smoother with the wind dropping off to less than 10 knots. Paul finished  Derek’s KISS rebreather course, with the last dive on Saturday turning into a night dive on the Lermontov, overall the rebreather divers completed 6 hours of bottom time over the weekend.

Congratulations to Hamish who joined the 1 hour club with a 75 minute dive on twins on Sunday morning, also learning the hard way on his first twin cylinder dive on Saturday that the left post on twins works in the opposite direction to the normal valve. Hamish’s eyes looked like he had been chewing beetle nut on surfacing from that little event. Katie started her PADI EANx course with me, completing two dives on 32% and visiting the engine room for the first time. Going by my own past experience and divers responses on surfacing after being in the engine room, I reckon it would have to rate as one of those special dives and one of the best penetration dives in the world.

Thanks to everyone for diving with Go Dive and helping with the domestic tasks up at the Lodge, it was a great help the absence of staff due to winter aliments.

safe diving

Brent

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