Dive Site - The Pinnacles
| Dive Site - The Pinnacles | |||
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| The Pinnacles | Phillip Island, VIC | ||
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38 m | Advanced Open Water |
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| - | Salt | 0 m | |
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| 38° 34.363′ S 38.572717° S 38° 34′ 21.78″ S |
145° 20.226′ E 145.3371° E 145° 20′ 13.56″ E |
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| The Pinnacles are located in the South Eastern area of Phillip Island, well outside Port Phillip Heads and East past Point Nepean in Bass Strait, Victoria. The Pinnacles are a collection of large pinnacles of rock rising from a rocky bottom at 38 metres up 9 metres from the surface. The height of these bommies has attracted large amounts of fish life and they are also covered in lovely coloured soft corals and sponges. This dive site is probably an underwater extension of the land-based site of The Pinnacles granite formations found in the Phillip Island Nature Park, Cape Woolamai. DIVING THE PINNACLES Best done as a boat dive launching from Newhaven on Phillip Island, as it's a long way from The Heads and Point Nepean. Use a plough or sarca anchor in preference to a sand anchor. Anchor in the deep section and check that the swell and wind is holding your anchor line clear of the rising reef structure. FINDING THE PINNACLES Thanks to the work of Peter Beaumont and Packo the GPS marks for The Pinnacles were updated on 5th May 2018. Peter reports the given longitude of 145° 20.226' E is a deep anchoring point some distance west of the 8 to 9 metre soundings at the top of The Pinnacles. Packo suggests first-timers who are sounding for the summit might try somewhere about 15 to 20 metres further east at around 145° 20.240' E. |
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