I had a look at the forecast for this weekend and spoke to Graham and we decided it looked a good time to dive the Adelaide. I had a few friends (Matt Dalton & Greg Rose) that were interested in joining BWAC and waiting for the chance to dive the Adelaide. I spoke to them and they were keen.
I booked the boat with Michael Foster and asked him if he knew of anyone else that may like to dive with us, Arthur and Ulrike agreed to come along and Mike Wilson is going to boat sit for us (Thanks Mike).
I booked the mooring for 12:30pm as my son was playing rugby league in the morning.
We got to Terrigal have at 11:30am and it was a busy as ever, And after a good morning dive, Geoff asked if he could come along also.
We loaded the boat and headed out, the weather was warm for August and it was a little cloudy. When we got to the mooring 2 there was another boat stilled tied up, as we were a little early we started to gear up while we were waiting.
Graham, Matt, Greg and myself jumped in and swam over to the mast buoy, the water look blue and reasonability clear with a north running current and a 1m swell(Viz was about 10-12m), descending to the deck we past the mast and headed to the bow as I wanted to take some video footage around that area. After taking some video footage of Matt sitting on the bow we then headed below the bow and into the ship, Graham and Matt disappeared for a few minutes and headed to the sand at the bow to have a look before entering the ship.
We headed towards the middle of the ship I was videoing this as passed though room after room til we came across the missile launcher hole where Matt and Graham headed in deeper, Greg and myself were diving with Nitrox and did not want to exceed our depth limit, after a few minutes they were back and we continued towards the bridge.
At the bridge I videoed the captains chair as boy’s moved in and out of it. At this point it was time to head to the surface, after doing our safety stops we surfaced and the current slowly washed us back to the boat.
At the boat the other group was already on board and ready to go home.
We all had a great dive and there was no canoe rides (this is our saying for DCS) and I would like to welcome our new members Matt Dalton and Greg Rose.
Thanks for the photos, Matt. Almost as good as being on the dive, although I’ll still look forward to doing it in real life!!! Regards, JOHN.