The weather cooperated for a change and a bunch of
us got a couple of good dives in on Saturday.

We did the Fawkner(44M) and the Rotomahana(39M) with
Dive Victoria. The visibility wasn't great, somewhere
around 5-10M on the Fawkner and a bit better on the
Rotomahana. The Fawkner isn't in particularly good
shape, but the boilers and parts of what I suspect was
the pilot house were semi-intact. There's a photo
of the pilot house at:
http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~gingrich/new_dive_photos/victoria.html

The shot hit the wreck about mid-ship on the port side
so it was fairly easy to find our way around the wreck.
One member of the team was experimenting with more
conservative profiles after some skin bends so we only
spent 20 minutes on the bottom and had a liesurely 25
minute ascent. (Only O2 deco gas)

Don,
There are some really nice pics there. Have you dived over here
yet?
Michael MB

MB <bflmbsomeathomewestnet.com.au> wrote:

Over here being WA? No, I've been in OZ for
26 years and still haven been to Perth, Darwin or
Alice.

I've got some time off in the first week of September
and I'm off to the Solomons. Planning on doing the Aaron
Ward out of Tulagi and whatever else is around worth
doing. What I'd like to do is mix it up between deep
wrecks and some shallower reef and other stuff, but
it may depend on what the other divers around are wanting
to do.

Thanks for the compliment re the photos -- if you
knew how many actual shots the few that are on the
page were selected from... Some dives I'm lucky to get
one or two I'm happy with.