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Lake Jindabyne Dives

I've dived at Lake Jindabyne 2 times:

Dive number	Date	Site	Location	Area	Country	Wreck	Freshwater	Depth (m)	Bottom time (min)	Total time (min)	Divers	Quality	Summary	Equipment
362	19 Mar 1988	Lake Jindabyne	The flooded town of Jindabyne	Snowy Mountains	Australia			16	35	35	Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries		The weekend's diving was organised by out local dive shop, Scuba Warehouse, and it included accommodation in caravans, water skiing and heavy drinking. Cathy and I survived this unusual introduction to Australian diving with only minor heatstroke. Visibility so-so, water green. Submerged trees were the highlight of this dive but we also found the remains of a house and a bottle dump. Altitude was 300m so the correction is ¼ of measured depth. In practice the dive ended due to a severe case of buoyancy.	24lbs lead, hired BCD
363	20 Mar 1988	Lake Jindabyne	The flooded town of Jindabyne	Snowy Mountains	Australia			14	35	35	Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries		While others accepted a penalty due to the previous night's drinking (Arriving late means you're an 'F' diver; drinking late means you're a 'B' diver...) we adopted a simpler approach by using RNPL tables as usual. This dive was much better than the previous day's. We saw more: the foundations of a house, with fence, doorway, gate and windows; a veritable forest of trees below the thermocline (visible as a light line in the water); bottles; a cow bone; freshwater sponges and waterweed. After the dive we headed west through Kosciusko National Park to Albury. A good weekend.	24lbs lead, hired BCD.

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Country

Wreck

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362

19 Mar 1988

Lake Jindabyne

The flooded town of Jindabyne

Snowy Mountains

Australia

Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries

The weekend's diving was organised by out local dive shop, Scuba Warehouse, and it included accommodation in caravans, water skiing and heavy drinking. Cathy and I survived this unusual introduction to Australian diving with only minor heatstroke. Visibility so-so, water green. Submerged trees were the highlight of this dive but we also found the remains of a house and a bottle dump. Altitude was 300m so the correction is ¼ of measured depth. In practice the dive ended due to a severe case of buoyancy.

24lbs lead, hired BCD

363

20 Mar 1988

Lake Jindabyne

The flooded town of Jindabyne

Snowy Mountains

Australia

Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries

While others accepted a penalty due to the previous night's drinking (Arriving late means you're an 'F' diver; drinking late means you're a 'B' diver...) we adopted a simpler approach by using RNPL tables as usual. This dive was much better than the previous day's. We saw more: the foundations of a house, with fence, doorway, gate and windows; a veritable forest of trees below the thermocline (visible as a light line in the water); bottles; a cow bone; freshwater sponges and waterweed. After the dive we headed west through Kosciusko National Park to Albury. A good weekend.

24lbs lead, hired BCD.