Newsletter: Weather to work with

Hi divers

Weekend dives

Friday: Shore dives at Long Beach, 9.30 am

Sunday: Meet at Simon’s Town jetty to visit Roman Rock at 10.00 and Photographer’s Reef at 12.30

Conditions report

For a change the weekend conditions look like something we can use for diving. A south westerly swell of a manageable 2.5 metre height, and very little wind, should give us far better conditions than we have experienced in the last few weeks. False Bay will be better than the Atlantic – the buoy off Kommetjie shows that the water temperature rose 7 degrees in the last 12 hours, which is not a sign of good visibility on that side. There has also been no south easterly wind today, and none is due tomorrow, so False Bay it is.

Weekend plans

We will launch from Simon’s Town jetty on Sunday, which looks like the better day. We will go at 10.00 to Roman Rock and at 12.30 to Photographer’s Reef. These will be nice, mellow dives as I will have students on board.

I am also diving Open Water students at Long Beach tomorrow morning at 9.30, so feel free to tag along if you feel able to be mostly ignored by me while I concentrate on the new divers! If you need gear, let me know as soon as possible.

Bon voyage…

… to Otti and Matthijs, who are heading home to the Netherlands this weekend after an adventurous stay of over a year in Cape Town. It has been great to share in some of their adventures. We send wishes for gentle travels and all the best for the birth of their daughter in April! Here’s a picture of them and some other smiley faces (and Christo!) on the boat earlier this year: