The Diving Report

Season Summary

Laurie Campbell

Annual Cray Catch Competition

Hilary’s Yacht Club hosted the “2023 Cray Day”, including MAAC and ORSSC, it was a great success. A beautiful sunny Sunday in a lovely location. ORSSC will host in 2024.

Seven ORSSC Scuba Divers dived over the two days 4-5 March endeavouring to win the prize for the biggest Cray fish on the day, not to be this year with the winning cray by MAAC topping the scales at 2.4kg! A beauty.

A fabulous lunch, crayfish & salads was then shared with the attending members & guests. A fund raising event, tickets were purchased in abundance, with 4 of spot prizes going home with the ORSSC group.

Pt Perron - Dive Section Weekend 17-19 March

A few shades of ‘Green” were adorned on Friday 17 March, St Patricks Day, a colourful sight as some of the Dive Section attendees walked to the Yacht Club a few km’s from the Pt Perron Holiday Camp for dinner.

Thank you, Jan Gallagher for arranging this weekend again this year, no easy task organising up to 40 people - building The Village!!!

On Saturday morning, 7 Divers dived at ‘The Wreck Trail’. Visibility was great, allowing the group to locate the sunken treasures/wrecks. Some of the Scuba Dive students completed another section of the Advanced Open Water Divers qualification, well done.

Meanwhile, back at the camp, ’The Villagers ’were appearing, park runners took to the pavement, well done Lina. Push bikes were unloaded and trundled off along the beautiful coastline-a piece of hidden treasure!!! Jet Ski’s were unloaded and the Squid Catching boat was launched.

Stand up paddles board were pumped up and ready for a float across the calm sunny bay. There was an abundance of big blue crabs nestled in the sea grass in the protected area, taunting many a viewer. Dolphins and rays coming along to