J-Bay SCUBA
Dive logs, gear notes, and the AWS archive from Jeffreys Bay.
On Thursday 4 August we did some PADI Refresher courses at the Savoy Hotel in JBay. The knowledge section went quite smooth and then it was time for some "ice" diving. All the skills were refreshed and although the water...
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Saturday´s dive was cancelled due to brown muddy water still in the bay flowing from the Gamtoos river after the good rains we had and some guys were just too downhearted after another great performance by the Boks.....
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There was no wind, but the surf had picked up as we launched on Saturday morning from Jeffreys Bay main beach for our double tank dives to Geelbek Rock and Little Chelsea reefs. A warm 18 degrees at the surface was quite...
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On Friday the weather gave us a long deserved break and we launched at 19:00 for our night dive on Jagged Edge Reef. Danel did her first night dive with us and after being a bit sceptic now prefers night diving to diving...
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Most of us have been out of the water a week or two (or three), and by the end of last week, we were pretty desperate for a dive. We were planning to do a night dive for the past week, but when the evening came, there wa...
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Pramberg Reef: As we launched for our double tank dives on Saturday morning the water was a light brown colour due to all the rivers and streams running into the ocean after the rains we had. No one thought we would have...
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The Perfect Storm It's hard to believe that yet another Wild Side dive fest at Noordhoek has come and gone. On Wednesday as we loaded gear and prepared the boat the weather forecast wasn't in our favour with winds of up...
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Raggies Rest. Water temp was a balmy 17 degrees for winter, with viz between 5 and 10m. Depth varied between 8 and 12m. Sunday was a very interesting day. We had another full boat and only launched later during the day b...
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On Saturday we had some PADI Open Water Diver students who had to do some of their ocean skills as well as a Divemaster in training, and decided to do a shallow dive at what we call Discovery Channel Reef. As we kitted u...
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On Saturday we dived Moondrop Reef at the Wild Side. Big swell was running but it turned out to be a nice sunny day. We had approx 4 to 5m viz and the bottom temp was 14 deg. Due to lots of people suffering from flue we...
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Due to maintenance on the boat we didn't launch last weekend although it was perfect weather for diving. On Sunday I did a dive with ODI at Fort Raggie at 15:00 in the afternoon. The visibility was about 15m and the temp...
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On Saturday morning we didn't launch due to strong winds picking up but it rained and rained in JBay. About time is all we can say about it. The pool at the Savoy was filled to the edge and it was a cold rainy day when w...
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