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January 27, 2018

2018 Ocean Film Festival

Hi all

We will once again be attending the Ocean Film Festival.

This year it will be showing at Peninsula Cinemas, Rosebud at 7pm on 24th March in addition to a couple of dates in the city.

We are heading down to Rosebud. If anyone else its interested in attending then tickets are available at http://oceanfilmfestivalaustralia.com.au. You can also check out some trailers

Ian Scholey

January 27, 2018

Welcome to our latest New Members

Hi all

I have been busy diving with our latest batch of membership applicants. Everyone breezed through their check out dives so we will confirm their membership at the next Committee meeting. Please join me in welcoming the following to the VSAG diving family:

Mark Howells

Federico Sevilla

Matthijs Smith

Dylan Smith

Pic – Mark enjoying his dive at Golden Arch

Pic – Federico, Matthijs and Dylan are all smiles after a double wreck dive on Ex HMAS Canberra & the J4

Ian Scholey

December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas

On behalf of the VSAG Committee I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May Santa deliver you new dive gear and hopefully we will see you in the water over the festive season.

Ian

December 24, 2017December 24, 2017

Graveyard Dives

Hi all

We will be joining Redboats www.Redboats.com.au for a couple of nice looking Ships Graveyard dives over the next couple of weeks. If anyone is interested in joining us we will be diving the Pioneer on Saturday 30th December and the Milora on Saturday 6th January. Anyone interested please book yourself on and let me know you are coming.

Ian

December 17, 2017December 17, 2017

Club Pony Rigs

The club now has two pony rigs for the use of club members. One will be at my place in Frankston South and the other with Peter Beaumont in Mornington. Please contact either one of us to book them.

We will have them with us when we are out in our boats.For those who like to dive solo we would like you to use these if you don’t have your own redundancy. Feel free to grab one if you want to try them out and get your trim right before heading off solo. Please note that solo diving is only to be undertaken by suitably trained/experienced divers.

Ian

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VSAG added 13 new photos.

2 days ago

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. ...

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Count me in for that thought 🙂

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3 days ago

Love it

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1958: una escuela para los más osados ...

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1 week ago

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

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Did well to find it!!

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1 week ago

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. ...

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