Diving

The Docks Dives

I've dived at The Docks 6 times:

Dive number Date Site Location Area Country Wreck Freshwater Depth (m) Bottom time (min) Total time (min) Divers Quality Summary Equipment
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First dive Last dive 		24 Feb 1991 The Docks NW of Point Perpendicular Jervis Bay Australia 20 0 49 Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries, Graham Russell Three stars Better than this morning's dive. Took off a heap of lead and was much more comfortable. The water was also lighter because the sun was higher. Saw a blue devil fish in the docks, then swam south-east over jumbled boulders with lots of sponges and coral. Found a cuttlefish (as usual) and Graham saw a shark.
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First dive Last dive 		23 Jun 1991 The Docks NW of Point Perpendicular Jervis Bay Australia 20 39 39 Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries, Maria Branson Four stars This was probably the best dive of the weekend. Must have been a different part of the site from last time, because the scenery was much more impressive, with several swim-throughs. Started out by heading under a huge toblerone-shaped boulder. Underneath was a 1 foot puffer fish, and then, as it narrowed down, a Port Jackson shark, which pushed its way out past me. Then it was in and out of several caves, with beautiful gorgonia and squidgies. After squeezing through one swimthrough I looked back to see Cathy follow and Maria get stuck. In one cave I came face to face with a very large wobby. Just for good measure we found a 2 foot long cuttlefish. Perfect dive.
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First dive Last dive 		2 Nov 1991 The Docks NW of Point Perpendicular Jervis Bay Australia 18 35 35 Iain Hosking, Cathy Cunningham, Cathy Humphries Three stars Back in Jervis Bay, and back to The Docks. A grey day, but good to get back in the water again. Saw cuttlefish and the usual fish. 82, Arctic. Valve seemed to be leaking air into the suit - had to pull the hose out.
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First dive Last dive 		13 Sep 1997 The Docks NW of Point Perpendicular Jervis Bay Australia 19 39 39 Iain Hosking, Andrew Kennedy Three stars Much less swell here, so much more relaxed before and after dive. Dropped in and swam to shore. Big swimthroughs with shoals of nannegai, plus umpteen other varieties, including leatherjacket, wrasse, cale (charcoal grey fish with a hump back, about wrasse size), groper, morwong. Andrew believes he saw a grey nurse shark, but I didn't (as usual). 82 cu. ft. Damper, still not cold. (Water temperature supposedly 16 degrees).
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First dive Last dive 		21 Sep 2002 The Docks NW of Point Perpendicular Jervis Bay Australia 20 36 39 Iain Hosking, Andrew Kennedy, Charlie Oldfield, Martin Zolfel Three stars Beatiful sunny day. Water murky (full of long, jelly blobs). Good swimthroughs. Port Jacksons, morwong, stripey, bullseyes, hawkfish, wrasse, leatherjacket, yellowtail, boarfish, moray and last but not least, a weedy sea dragon. MV "Indulgence" owned and run by Adrian (Cornish) and Annie (a great cook!). Organised through Frogdive, $340. Wet suit, Arctic
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First dive Last dive 		21 Sep 2002 The Docks NW of Point Perpendicular Jervis Bay Australia 20 35 38 Iain Hosking, Andrew Kennedy, Martin Zolfel Four stars NE of previous spot. Started with squeezing into a cold, wet wetsuit (first time in 11 years). Swam to the point on compass bearing and Martin immediately saw another weedy sea dragon. It allowed us to get right up close to it - fascinating. Then Andrew found a numbfish, swimming free. He didn't touch it. We enjoyed the sunshine in the shallower depths, and navigated on a reciprocal bearing back to the boat. Fish: boarfish, scalyfin, wrasse, etc as this morning's dive. A pair of moray eels in the one hole, crimson-banded wrasse, senator wrasse. Wet suit, Arctic.