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Posted on December 3, 2017December 3, 2017 by Admin

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2 days ago

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Just Peter Beaumont and I this morning.
6.30am, 25 Knot South Westerlies, Raining hard, 9 degrees out of the water and 12 degrees in it. Perfect conditions for a two hour dive then. Why do I do it to myself!!!
Im some sort of sadistic way I enjoyed it even though the crabs have buggered up my favourite dive site again. This time last year I was seeing 10-15 species of Nudibranch today it took me 1.5 hours to find the one and only one I saw - am i the only one who wishes the spider crabs would bugger off and aggregate somewhere else. ...

Just Peter Beaumont and I this morning. 6.30am, 25 Knot South Westerlies, Raining hard, 9 degrees out of the water and 12 degrees in it. Perfect conditions for a two hour dive then. Why do I do it to myself!!! Im some sort of sadistic way I enjoyed it even though the crabs have buggered up my favourite dive site again. This time last year I was seeing 10-15 species of Nudibranch today it took me 1.5 hours to find the one and only one I saw - am i the only one who wishes the spider crabs would bugger off and aggregate somewhere else.Image attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment
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3 days ago

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Love it

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1958: una escuela para los más osados ...

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1 week ago

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The only picture I could find of the VHB 54 ...

The only picture I could find of the VHB 54
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The fantastic conditions of late continued yesterday with light variable winds and flat seas. We didn't have a lot of interest so it was just myself and Peter Beaumont out on Sea Eagle.
We took advantage of the conditions and headed down to the Ships Graveyard. The intent was to dive the Batman but I had some sounder issues and we didn't find it. I did go and have a look but found only a shallow reef covered with sponge growth. As I was down there I decided to stay and had an enjoyable dive dragging the shot with me in case I found the wreck.
We got some help from Chris Taft, Vaughn Naylor and crew who were also diving in the graveyard and they kindly dropped our shot on VHB 54 for us and we dived that.
VHB 54 is one of several vessels bought to Australia in the 1950's by the Australian Dredging and General Works Pty Ltd. Other vessels include sister ship VHB 53 and the Dredge Beverwijk both of whom sit elsewhere in the graveyard. All were involved in a major dredging job in an area east of the entrance to the Yarra River.
VHB 53 and 54 were Hopper Barges and the huge wheels used to open the doors on the barge to allow the dredged materials to be dumped on board are still visible at midships on the VHB 54. The stern is pretty intact but midships is very broken. The ship was absolutely covered in fishwife with big schools of Bullseyes occupying the insides.
She was scuttled in the graveyard in 1970 and is sitting upright at 42m.
There were hundreds of Dolphins about yesterday and we saw 4/5 large pods between Barwon Heads and the Graveyard.
Every time we stopped they were all around the boat and I was lucky enough to get several close encounters while doing my deco.Sadly I had my camera clipped off so didn't manage any decent shots. ...

The fantastic conditions of late continued yesterday with light variable winds and flat seas. We didnt have a lot of interest so it was just myself and Peter Beaumont out on Sea Eagle. We took advantage of the conditions and headed down to the Ships Graveyard. The intent was to dive the Batman but I had some sounder issues and we didnt find it. I did go and have a look but found only a shallow reef covered with sponge growth. As I was down there I decided to stay and had an enjoyable dive dragging the shot with me in case I found the wreck. We got some help from Chris Taft, Vaughn Naylor and crew who were also diving in the graveyard and they kindly dropped our shot on VHB 54 for us and we dived that. VHB 54 is one of several vessels bought to Australia in the 1950s by the Australian Dredging and General Works Pty Ltd. Other vessels include sister ship VHB 53 and the Dredge Beverwijk both of whom sit elsewhere in the graveyard. All were involved in a major dredging job in an area east of the entrance to the Yarra River. VHB 53 and 54 were Hopper Barges and the huge wheels used to open the doors on the barge to allow the dredged materials to be dumped on board are still visible at midships on the VHB 54. The stern is pretty intact but midships is very broken. The ship was absolutely covered in fishwife with big schools of Bullseyes occupying the insides. She was scuttled in the graveyard in 1970 and is sitting upright at 42m. There were hundreds of Dolphins about yesterday and we saw 4/5 large pods between Barwon Heads and the Graveyard. Every time we stopped they were all around the boat and I was lucky enough to get several close encounters while doing my deco.Sadly I had my camera clipped off so didnt manage any decent shots.Image attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment
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