Logbook Scuba Dive # 88 - The Cave - Lonsdale Wall

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Date:	Entry Time:	Dive Time:	Max. Depth:
Sat, 10-Mar-2007	14:07:00	27 minutes	32 metres
Dive Location:		City / Island:
The Cave - Lonsdale Wall		Port Phillip, VIC
Country:		Dive Master:
Australia		Andy Lowther
Dive Shop:		Dive Trip:
-		-
Buddy/Buddies:
Karen
Dive Details:
Entry:	Boat Name:
Boat	Midnight Rambler
Start PG:	Entry Time:	Exit Time:	End PG:
-	14:07:00	14:34:00	-
Altitude:	Rep. Dive:	Surface Interval:
0 m	Yes	03:37:00
Max. Depth:			Avg. Depth:
32 metres			19.20 m
	Dive Time:		Deco. Dive:
	27 minutes		No
Conditions:
Weather:	Air Temp.:	Water Temp.:
Clear	20 °C	19 °C
Water:	Waves:	Current:
Salt	No Waves	Medium Current
Visibility:	Horizontal Vis.:	Vertical Vis.:
Bad	-	-
Equipment:
Weight:	Dive Suit:	Dive Computer:
16 kg	Wetsuit 7 mm	Suunto Vytec DS
Equipment used on this dive:
Apeks ATX100 Regulator \| Apeks ATX40 Octopus \| Apollo Bio-Fin Pro \| Apollo Ecodiver Dive Boots \| Buddy Surface Marker Buoy \| DUI Weight & Trim 2 Harness \| Faber 15L Steel Cylinder \| Mirage A250 Wrist Slate \| Neptune Scorpion Gold 7mm SemiDry Wetsuit \| Northern Diver Mini Metal Wreck Reel \| Northern Diver Superstretch 2mm Neoprene Gloves \| Oceanic Spinner Pointed Dive Knife \| Oceansuits 3mm Hood \| OMS Compact Quick Dump Weight Pockets \| OMS Dual Bladder, Banded Wing - Rec \| OMS IQ Pack BC Harness \| Princeton Tec Impact XL Dive Light \| Sonar Explorer Blue Silicone Mask \| Suunto CB-Two-In-Line Combo Console - 1 \| Suunto Vytec DS Dive Computer \| Waterborne Safety Strap - Vytec

Instructor: Andy Lowther Boat: "Midnight Rambler", Tom Wende, OzDive & Boat Charters Second dive of the SDI Deep Diver course. Dive plan: 16 minutes of bottom time. Rule of thirds: 80, 160, 240 bar. Conditions were a lot calmer than on our first dive earlier in the day. Once the dive site was located, those of us on the SDI Deep Diver course went in first: Andy Lowther (Instructor), Davel Kelly, Matt Kelly, Karen and myself. Andy was the one who knew how to find The Cave, so everyone else on the boat was following us. We did our safety check at 5 metres and then headed to the bottom. Visibility was bad at about 2 metres. Once we had gathered on the bottom we did a mask off, mask on, mask clear drill again. Then Andy let us all to the cave. It was obviously a very interesting site, but the bad visibility meant if was difficult to see anything. As we arrived at the entrance to the cave, I'd reached my 160 bar turn around point. Holding hands with Karen we entered into the cave and through it to the exit. I managed to find the ceiling of the cave with my head a few times! Once we had all exited the cave we started our ascent. Andy dropped his reel and shot his SMB at 15 metres. We did a safety stop at 5 metres and then surfaced. With everyone back aboard we headed back to Portsea and a defriefing at the Portsea Hotel. Then Dave Keely, Matt Kelly and myself went and had icecreams, before heading back to The Scuba Doctor in Rye for air fills and to swap yarns.

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