Dive Report

Hi everyone, The dive section had an excellent dive trip down to Busselton back in December, 50 members from the dive section made the trip down to Legacy house for the weekend. 22 of 50 members travelled down on Thursday to get an early start to the weekend, after settling into our accommodation that evening we all went to Amelia Park restaurant - a lovely way to start the weekend. On Friday it was time for the food shopping for the Saturday night roast dinner and Sunday recovery breakfast. As the rest of the members made their way down on Friday a few members went to a local winery for lunch and a few of us did some reconnaissance to the marina so we knew the way the next day for the charter thank god for GPS and not my directions. But the main reason for the weekend other than drinking and eating was diving on the HMAS Swan. We had 12 divers for the double dive on the Swan wreck which lays in 30 meters of water off the coast of Dunsborough. We boarded the Swan Dive Charter at 8am for the 50-minute cruise across geographies bay to the dive site. The dive boat can take 22 divers so with our 12, it left room for 10 more paying passengers of which 2 were free divers.

I don’t know what they thought as they watched 12 supreme athletic divers trying to get geared up with yells of can you zip me up is my air turned on can you pass me my weights and so on but I am sure they are still talking about that dive. The dives were great as every dive is we had two dives on the swan we all buddied up and enjoyed some great conditions and exploring the wreck. After the dive, it was back to Legacy to finish preparing the food for the roast dinner. The theme this year was Hawaiian and everyone got into the theme with bright coloured Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts. The roast dinner went down a treat enjoyed by everyone, I would like to thank everyone who helped out with preparation and cleaning up - many hands made light work. The recovery breakfast on Sunday of bacon eggs was a treat. I would like to thank Rick and Tricia Green for organising our stay at Legacy House and thank you to Graham Hindley for organising the dive charter.

On Saturday 22nd January Dave Baronet, Graham Hindley and Rob Addams organised a dive trip to Rottnest Island with excellent weather and good dive conditions word has it they all had a great day. Upcoming events: • Point Perron 28th January • Cray day weekend 19th-20th March • Rottnest weekend 26th March

Erick Erhard

Rear Commodore - Dive Section