>>>> Hoges in WA wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> hehehe
>>>>>> I'd call you a wimp too, except I haven't been in the water since May
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> June...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mick G
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ha!
>>>>> Sprung!! Dive all year round in Melbourne!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking of your planned trip today.
>>>>>
>>>>> Guess why?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because it was bucketing down, the ovals are all under water, the
>>>>> wind's howling in and it's freezing cold.
>>>>>
>>>>> How cold was it? It was so cold I actually wore my Mountain Designs
>>>>> gloves on my morning walk in Albany yesterday and stuck on my woolly
>>>>> hat.
>>>>>
>>>>> You might be lucky late August but on today's form, I would not be
>>>>> joining you - I'll wait to read about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nah, it'll all blow over by the time you get here.
>>>>> Hoges in WA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Hoges Have you dived the perth lately? How is she progressing?
>>>>
>>>> Michael MB
>>>
>>> nonononono.
>>> I don't do deep-ish dives in cold-ish water - 6.5cm of stent in my
>>> "Widowmaker" artery.
>>> Warm and shallow is my territory now, although I will be stretching that
>>> for the Liberty ship in Tulamben in Sept. (going back for my third visit
>>> in 28 years).
>>
>> Have fun it's a great dive ( as you know ). Didn't think it was that deep
>> depending on where you were, must look up the log book.
>>
>> PS Make sure you pack your own boogy board bag.
>
>
> From memory, it's about 110 at the bottom end, maybe 120? My log shows
> 28m - I went to the top of the stern, not down to the props/rudder (if
> they're there)
Thats about right I also got 28m at my deepest point, also did a second dive
sticking to the middle section that was about 18m. I've got in my log people
that there were people snorkeling at the shallow end that was only in 3-4m.
Have you dived the Wall at the other end?
>
> Last dive there was a giant event - my wife was attacked by a trigger fish
> that hammered into her mask and cracked it plus her nose and forehead.
> Regs, bubbles and junk going in all directions. It attacked another dive
> also, but both incidents were up the sharp end.
Bugger of things Trigger Fish I got attacked in the mask by one while
snorkelling in the lagoon at Lady Elliot Is with the kids. My eldest tried
to push one away that was having a go at her and it took a chunk out of her
finger right on the tip so there was blood everywhere. Iirc these where
black triggerfish, always thought of them as a glorified leatherjacket but
have more respect for them now.
