Monday 29 September 2014

29th September 2014 - Flinders Puts on a Great Show Yet Again!

Another great weather weekend treated us to more fabulous diving! Friday we headed out to Flat Rock and had two awesome dives at Turtle Caves. With viz at 20m on the first dive and dropping to 15m on the second, divers were mesmerised by huge schools of large and friendly Batfish, big wobbys, eels and all the usual critters that keep us entertained on our dives at Flat. 

Saturday DiveQuest headed back out to the tip of Moreton to have another crack at diving the Cementco. Unfortunately there was a huge current which meant we had to resort back to Flinders Reef. But what a show it put on! Amazing viz, no current and flat conditions, our divers just loved the day diving! Our next crack at Cementco will be Saturday 18th October for an Advanced Only Dive Day! Third time lucky right? 
Photo by Owen Neve
Photo by Rowan Coe

Sunday DiveQuest was back at Shag Rock for 2 more enjoyable dives with a boat load of eager students either starting or completing their courses. We would like to congratulate Kelsey and Jason who completed their Open Water Course over the weekend and Liz, Mellissa and Daniel who completed their Advanced Courses with us! Congrats guys and we can't wait to have you diving with us again soon!  

We are off on another Advanced Only Dive Day on Saturday 18th October, this time our destinations will be aimed at Cementco and Smiths Rock with 6 spots still left on this trip! For those who aren't up for some tricky diving, we will also be heading to Cook Island on Saturday 18th October with 9 Spots Left.

We have scheduled a special 3 dive afternoon trip on Saturday 15th November, heading to Flinders Reef with the last dive being a NIGHT Dive!   5 Spots left on this trip!

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Monday 22 September 2014

22nd September 2014 - What a Weekend!



Mark Patterson's photo.
image by Mark Patterson
What a fantastic weekend of diving we were treated to! Even though the swell picked up a little more then expected on Saturday we had our first successful Advanced Only Dive Day! We headed out to China Wall, where we explored extensive kelp forests and the Rebreather Guys even ran into a 2.5m Tiger Shark! Lucky guys! You can check out the video on our Facebook page. Our second dive of the day was at Henderson's Reef, unfortunately the visibility wasn't in our favour but this site has lots of awesome swim throughs and gutters! We can't wait to get back there and dive it with better viz next time! Our next Advanced Only Day is Saturday October 18, where we will be aiming for Cementco and Smith's Rock!!!!
Photo
Image by Rowan Coe

Sunday DiveQuest was privately chartered and we wandered off to Flinders Reef. Dive 1 of the day was a wonderful surprise on a beautiful reef just north of Flinders. With incredible viz and plenty of healthy coral and fish life we enjoyed a spectacular dive. Due to the current picking up towards the end of the first dive we moved back to Flinders' itself for a nice 2nd dive. With amazing viz still and whales singing to us underwater everyone had a wonderful time playing with friendly turtles, cuttlefish and the beautiful fish life and coral the Flinders is so well known for! 

We are off on another Advanced Only Dive Day on Saturday 18th October, this time our destinations will be aimed at Cementco and Smiths Rock with 7 spots still left on this trip! For those who aren't up for some tricky diving, we will also be heading to Cook Island on Saturday 18th October with 9 Spots Left.

We have scheduled a special 3 dive afternoon trip on Saturday 15th November, heading to Flinders Reef with the last dive being a NIGHT Dive!   8 Spots left on this trip!


DiveQuest has some busy weekends coming up, so if you're wanting to dive in the next few weeks make sure you get in early to avoid disappointment.  

Tuesday 16 September 2014

15th September 2014 - Amazing Diving Conditions

Photo 1 taken by Tori Templeman
Finally a break in the weather allowed 3 amazing days of diving over the weekend! Friday we completed one dive at Turtle Caves before heading around to the other side of the rock for a dive at Shark Alley. 3 Grey Nurse, one over 3m in length! Saturday we had to utilize Shag Rock for the 1st 2 dives as we were depth restricted to 12m with Day 1 of an Open Water Course and the Coral Gardens (shallow site) mooring buoy at Flat Rock has disappeared. Third Dive of the day was an awesome drift dive from Turtle Caves to Coral Gardens, Flat Rock. We were lucky and saw a huge school of BIG Barracuda, a 2m Grouper, Guitar Shark, Bull Ray, and 1 very friendly turtle and came in for a nice close look. Sunday we were back at Turtle Caves for 2 more enjoyable dives! Viz averaged 15-20m over the weekend and whales sang their beautiful songs while we were on our dive!
We would like to congratulate Jeremy, Carly, Liz, Mark, Graeme, Jerry and Roger who completed their Open Water Courses, Jodi and Tori who completed their Advanced Open Water Courses and Rowan who completed his Deep Diver Specialty with us over the weekend.

DiveQuest is heading out to North Straddie Friday with limited space available, and we are keeping our fingers crossed for good weather on Saturday as we again try for an Advanced Only dive site, this time to China Wall and Henderson's Reef! Saturday is fully booked. Sunday is also fully booked with a private charter scheduled.
 We are off on another Advanced Only Dive Day on Saturday 18th October, this time our destinations will be aimed at Cementco and Smiths Rock with 7 spots still left on this trip! For those who aren't up for some tricky diving, we will also be heading to Cook Island on Saturday 18th October with 9 Spots Left.
We have scheduled a special 3 dive afternoon trip on Saturday 15th November, heading to Flinders Reef with the last dive being a NIGHT Dive!   8 Spots left on this trip!


DiveQuest has some busy weekends coming up, so if you're wanting to dive in the next few weeks make sure you get in early to avoid disappointment.  Go to www.godive.com.au to see what trips we have coming up.

Monday 8 September 2014

8th September 2014 - Spring is Here!

Photo by Emma Simkin
Another poor weather weekend set in over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We still managed to get out to Shag Rock on Friday and Sunday, however our first Advanced Only Dive Day on Saturday to Gotham City had to be postponed :(
Friday and Sunday we dived Shag Rock, with 5-8m viz we were able to get out of big seas and tuck in close to the rock for 2 dives each day. 

We would like to congratulate Joe, Ross, Clint and Erin who completed their Open Water Course on Sunday. We would also like to congratulate Chris who finished his Advanced Open Water Course with us on Sunday.
Sunday we also dived the exHMAS Brisbane, with rough conditions on the surface, however 15m viz underneath, our divers enjoyed 2 enjoyable dives on our favourite local wreck. We would like to congratulate Rick, who completed his Wreck Specialty and Paul who completed his Advanced Open Water Course with us on Sunday. 

We are off on another Advanced Only Dive Day on Saturday 18th October, this time our destinations will be aimed at Cementco and Smiths Rock with 7 spots still left on this trip! For those who aren't up for some tricky diving, we will also be heading to Cook Island on Saturday 18th October with 9 Spots Left.

We have scheduled a special 3 dive afternoon trip on Saturday 15th November, heading to Flinders Reef with the last dive being a NIGHT Dive!8 Spots left on this trip!

 DiveQuest has some busy weekends coming up, so if you're wanting to dive in the next few weeks make sure you get in early to avoid disappointment.  Go to www.godive.com.au to see our calendar of upcoming events and dives.

Tuesday 2 September 2014

1st September 2014 - Nigel Marsh Photography Clinic !

Saturday kicked off the much anticipated photography clinic hosted by Nigel Marsh. see his website here www.nigelmarshphotography.com/ where eager divers bought in their cameras and were able to fine tune the settings to get that perfect shot!
Sunday the weather calmed down and 2 enjoyable dives were had at Shark Alley off Flat Rock, with viz between 10-15m. Sadly only 2 sharks cruised by but our photographers were kept busy snapping beautiful shots of Nudis, Turtles, Sea Urchins, Anemone Fish, Clams and more all while listening to whales sing their beautiful harmonies. It was a great day on the water and we are looking forward to seeing stunning pictures taken from the dives!
Saturday under low viz we also had students out at Shag Rock completing courses. Big Congrats to newly Advanced Open Water Certified Divers, Kris, Karmen, James and Rodney!
This week is an exciting week for DiveQuest! She will be heading out Thurs - Sunday with Saturday heading out for our first Advanced Only dives to Gotham City and Flinders Reef! Yippee! DiveQuest is currently fully booked each day except Thursday. On Sunday we are also off to dive the exHMAS Brisbane with limited spaces still available.
DiveQuest has some busy weekends coming up, so if you're wanting to dive in the next few weeks make sure you get in early to avoid disappointment.  
Go to www.godive.com.au for more information.





NO JOKE! Tec Diving will soon be coming to Go Dive! We are in the throws of discussing possible dates with our Tec Diving Instructor Extraordinaire, Pierre De Villiers! Watch this space (and our Facebook page) for more details in the coming weeks!   



Photos above taken by Chris Fry and Matt Wilson