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Terrigal Dive Centre Home of the HMAS Adelaide

Locality: Terrigal, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4384 1219

Address: The Haven 2260 Terrigal, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.terrigaldive.com.au

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25.01.2022 Hey everyone, Conditions and weather are looking great for this long weekend. This was our friend in the haven today. Come diving with us and help celebrate les having the shop for 47 years!!!!!! Plenty of vacancies await your name. Call us 43841219

25.01.2022 Here is a happy bunch of tech divers ready to dive The Adelaide. Why don't you make the Adelaide your dive next weekend. Phone now 0457841219 to book your spot.

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23.01.2022 Until I get the news letter up and running again, this will have to do. The conditions on the Adelaide today were fantastic and everyone had good dives. For this weekend, there are only wreck dive vacancies on Saturday and Monday. Limited vacancies for the 7.30 reef dive on Saturday as well. Monday: Vacancies again for the 7.30 reef dive. Then vacancies on most wreck dives. Call me at the shop 43 841219 Les

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23.01.2022 Guys and Girls, Just heard the visibility on the wreck is at least 15 to 20 metres, about 20 degrees, and the seas are FLAT!! Perfect diving conditions!!! NO ONE should miss out on these conditions!... Spoon Bay reef was absolutely beautiful as well this morning! Even the Haven is clear and beautiful! We still have spaces left for tomorrows dives all day, after so many bad weekends lets take advantage of the pristine conditions, cause tomorrows forecast is the same. COME DIVING!!!!! RING THE SHOP NOW TO BOOK FOR TOMORROW!!! 43841219!!!

23.01.2022 Just a little friend from our night dive on the weekend!

23.01.2022 Sometimes, we get some local visitors. Like this great little video of a Grey Nurse Shark on the Adelaide back in January. And winter is really GNS season, so come diving on the Adelaide again to see for yourself what marine life it is attracting.

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22.01.2022 So are we are ready for diving this weekend ? Last weekend we put a new mooring out on the Adelaide. This was followed by a terrific dive at Spoon Bay Reef. One weedy sea dragon was found, which was good, because we have not seen any around our local reefs since very big seas a few years ago. As I write this news letter, it is blowing hard from the South. It is forecast to ease off for the weekend. Make your bookings for the weekend now but please confirm on Friday to see wha...t the sea state is. Saturday 8.00 Pinnacle 25m a good dive even when there is a swell 10.00 Adelaide wreck, but we do need numbers for this dive. 12.30 Forrester’s Reef 26m 2.30 Adelaide wreck Sunday. 8.00 Sweep City 24m 10.00 Adelaide wreck if there is sufficient interest 12.30 2 Poles Reef 15m 21m 2.30 Adelaide wreck Please call us at the shop on Friday for the latest update on the sea conditions. Don’t forget, we do have ‘hot’ showers here, at the Dive Centre. Plus free coffee, tea and biscuits. Please feel free to just drop in for a chat. Try 43 841219 or 0457841219 Or book on line through our website www.terrigaldive.com.au Alternatively email us [email protected] STUFF Spoon Bay Reef, a dive site we visited last week, is notable for the abundance of benthic marine life. Marine life that is obviously out of its depth. This underwater cliff, that is probably no more than 200m long, is a mere 13m deep at the top and 16m at the base. The whole wall is covered in sponges, bryozoans, compound ascidians, tunicates and this is the most interesting, big stands of gorgonian corals. Anywhere else you dive on the Central Coast, these beautiful soft coral fans are not to be found any shallower than 18m. This is what I mean by out of it’s depth Gorgonian Coral Mopsella ellisii This species of gorgonian is found in four quite different colours. Red, pink, orange & maroon If you look very closely there are allied cowries similar to this one to be found on the branches, These small shells, 3 species in NSW, not much more than 10mm long, also have a colouration that matches the colour of the host gorgonian upon which they live. The late, well known naturalist, Neville Coleman experimented by putting 4 pieces of gorgonian (the 4 colours) in a fish tank. At the other end of the tank he put a number of the ovulid cowries of different colours. The result ? The cowries found their way to the matching coloured coral. This is why they are so hard to find in the wild. Happy diving Les

22.01.2022 Such a beautiful weekend with weather also brought the most amazing dive at the Cod Hole near the haven. Time for more people to see and appreciate these amazing creatures. Thanks to Geoff Dove for the video.

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21.01.2022 The hump back whales are back on the scene or should I say on audio.This weekend many divers on the wreck of the Adelaide reported hearing whale song but there were no sightings neither underwater, which would have been awesome, one from yours truly sitting in the boat. We often think of creatures, such as whales and dolphins, as beautiful to observe and most of us have an unfulfilled bucket list in diving, where an underwater encounter with Whales and dolphins features pret...ty high, particularly at the same time. Something I saw a few years ago, maybe, could make you re-think this wish. We were involved in some fish survey work with Dr., now (Prof), Bill Gladstone. As we entered a bay near Wybung Head. Just North of Norah Head we observed a large pod of dolphins frolicking in close to the rocks. Bill and his assistant kitted up and entered the water and, armed with tape measures and slates, disappeared beneath the surface, to start the survey Within a few minutes there was huge burst of air at the surface, as if there had been an explosion from down below. My immediate thought was that a hose line had ruptured and fully expected to see a very distressed diver come to the surface. Instead a large humpback whale broke the surface no more than 15m away from the boat. The blast of air had presumably been from the whale. What happened next was surprising, at least half a dozen dolphins, here I am just guessing because most are below the surface, rushed in and proceeded to, for want of a better word, to attack the whale. They swam at speed towards the side of the whale and at the last moment jumped over it. Some appeared to actually hit the whale others rushed at its mouth, just veering away at the last moment. This frenzied harassment continued at the whale for some minutes. The whale, then outnumbered by cranky dolphins, beat a hasty retreat from the bay. A bay that the dolphins obviously, for that moment, regarded as their territory. There again, perhaps they were simply trying to stop it beaching ? So next time you encounter a pod of dolphins underwater try not to look too much like a whale. Did the dive’s down below see any of this ? Not the harassment but Bill did have the whale swim into his transect and was able to tick it off as a sighting. Something that doesn’t happen very often. Les See more

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20.01.2022 LAST MINUTE FATHER'S DAY GIFT ? HOW ABOUT A GIFT VOUCHER TO LEARN TO DIVE, OR A DIVE ON THE HMAS ADELAIDE. NO NEED TO CALL IN. YOU CAN DO IT NOW OVER THE PHONE. THEN JUST PRINT OUT THE VOUCHER. PHONE 0457841219 ASK FOR LES

20.01.2022 Great trip with Terrigal Dive Centre Home of the HMAS Adelaide to Walindi Resort & M.V. FeBrina in Papua New Guinea. Thanks to Pete Davis, Sandi Davis, and Shane Caulfield for filming and sharing your amazing trip memories with us all. Stay tuned for our next dive trip if you want to make lifetime dive memories.

20.01.2022 Another video of The Galava Wreck Yesterday. apart from crystal clear water. the Galava sunk off Terrigal in 1927.

20.01.2022 After being closed since the big storm a few weeks ago, the Adelaide now open !! The other good thing is the weather forecast for this coming weekend is for good diving conditions. There will be 4 boat dives to the wreck both Saturday and Sunday. Call the shop 43 841219 to book your spot.

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19.01.2022 Hi, It just gets better, Viz on the wreck today 15m. The wreck is also boasting a new open veranda.

19.01.2022 Everyone, We are starting an open water course on the October long weekend, It will commence Saturday 3rd and run through to Tuesday. What a way to spend your long weekend!!!... Now is the time to get into it!! Ring to book on 43841219

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17.01.2022 TERRIGAL DIVE NEWS 17th August 2016 Last weekend’s diving had to have been the best for many weeks This weekend is forecast to be goo...d for diving with Westerly winds to calm the seas. Saturday 7.30 Reef dive, With the flat sea 1st point is an excellent dive. 9.30 Adelaide wreck, Some bookings but we can still take a few more. 12.30 Adelaide wreck Sunday. 7.30. Sweep City 24m 9.30. Adelaide wreck : there are still some vacancies. 11.00 2 Poles Reef 15m 21m 2.30 Adelaide wreck If this programme looks familiar you’re right it is the same as last weekend because we changed the reef dives on the day, last weekend and dived 2 poles reef instead of 1st point. Please call us at the shop on Friday for the latest update on the sea conditions. Don’t forget, we do have ‘hot’ showers here, at the Dive Centre. Plus free coffee, tea and biscuits. Please feel free to just drop in for a chat. Try 43 841219 or 0457841219 Or book on line through our website www.terrigaldive.com.au Alternatively email us [email protected] STUFF Annelid worms This family of worms are, for obvious reasons, called Feather duster tube worms. Sabellastarte Around the NSW coast the largest of our feather duster worms is this one Sabellastarte sp Whilst not as colourful as some of the tropical species it still possesses the lightning fast reflex to withdraw into its tube. When found around the local rocks and sand, the tube is soft but distinct. Which is why it was surprising to have one found out on the Adelaide wreck last weekend. It was tucked into a corner up on the deck head in one of the compartments down below. They are known to favour locations with good water movement, where the tentacles can pick up food particles. They are assured of good water movement on the Adelaide, as most of us know. Many divers who regularly dive the tropical reefs are familiar with the colourful so called ‘Christmas tree’ worms. These are in the worm family serpulidae Try to get close for a photograph and quicker than you can say ‘flash’ they disappear back into their hole in the coral Global Warming. If you watched Q & A on the ABC two nights ago you would have seen the eloquent Professor Brian Cox, an obvious global warming expert come up against one of our new senators, an ardent climate change denyer who is so well known that I have forgotten his name already. He obviously did not win the debate against the learned prof. This got me thinking, is there any middle ground between these two camps.? Look at it from a diver’s point of view. Global warming, sea levels rising. Hey is this all bad ? The sea becomes warmer. Good, I don’t have to travel so far North to dive with pretty tropical fish. The coral reefs start to extend further South. Endless Summer. Winter, if there is a winter, becomes shorter. Sea levels rise. Can you see a pattern arising here, if you will excuse the pun. Back to thinner wet suits. 4mm is so much easier to get on than my 7mm. Less weights on the belt. This has to be good for my back. Less compression on a thin suit at depth, so less time playing around trying to get my buoyancy just right. Sea levels rise. Now I don’t have a problem finding a 40m dive on the Adelaide for my deep dive students. Less distance to walk down to the water’s edge with all the gear on. The Water is up to the courtyard of the dive shop. I can tie the dive boat up to the hand rail around the dive shop courtyard. Perhaps the playing field will flood and we can turn it in to a marina. The rugby club closes and converts into a water polo club I can park my car closer to the dive site. Roll on global warming Just a thought Equipment It is not very often that something revolutionary come onto the diving market. Last year, at the ScubaPro dealers meeting, we were introduced to a new BC. I think there were so many new ideas built into this BC that it does deserve the title Revolutionary We were all sworn to secrecy but finally this week it has been released. I think it will make a lot of divers think again about what makes a good BC. Here is the HYDRO JUST 1 WEEK UNTIL DELIVERY RRP $1195 Safe Diving Les 0457841219 43841219

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17.01.2022 We are all smiling with the summer coming. Here's something that will make you smile too! You could win a brand new ScubaPro Mantis Dive Computer in our photo comp in time for Xmas! Simply follow us on Instagram and Facebook, submit a dive related photo (doesn't have to be an underwater pic) tag us @terrigal_dive and hashtag #terrigaldivecomp to enter. Enter as many times as you like and start entering now. Only use your own original photos so we can share them with our followers. Good luck.

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16.01.2022 Working on the priciple of If you don’t have something good to say, keep your mouth closed That’s exactly what has been the case for the past few weeks when it comes to diving. However the weather seems to have settled into steady Westerly winds, which calm the seas and the viz has come back to normal The Westerly winds allow us to dive locations like Spoon Bay reef & 1st Point. Dive sites which are beautiful but hard to dive when the seas are up. The boat has had a polish... and a coat of go fast paint. So we are ready for diving this weekend Saturday 8.00 1st Point. A great dive right in under the cliffs 19m to 26m 10.00 Adelaide wreck, but we do need numbers for this dive. 12.30 Spoon Bay reef. A beautiful reef with some of the best stands of gorgonian corals on the coast. 12.-15m A terrific 2nd dive. 2.30 Adelaide wreck Sunday. 8.00 Rock Lobster Reef area. 26m 10.00 Adelaide wreck if there is sufficient interest 12.30 Fifeshire reef 15-18m 2.30 Adelaide wreck Please call us at the shop on Friday for the latest update on the sea conditions. Don’t forget, we do have ‘hot’ showers here, at the Dive Centre. Plus free coffee, tea and biscuits. Please feel free to just drop in for a chat. Try 43 841219 or 0457841219 Or book on line through our website www.terrigaldive.com.au Alternatively email us [email protected]

16.01.2022 New post (Terrigal Dive News 10th September 2015) has been published on Terrigal Dive

15.01.2022 Hey Guys and Girls, Conditions are finally improving, had 8-10m vis on the wreck yesterday, and should only improve for the weekend. Give us a ring and book on for a dive, we have spots left on both days of the weekend. 43841219!

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13.01.2022 We have power again!!!! Shop will be open this weekend!

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12.01.2022 Yesterday I had a great dive on the Adelaide with Amanda from TUG. We were on the Prodive boat.. Conditions were the best I have seen for a long while. Viz at least 20m or more and temp by my gauge 22 degrees. I doesn't get much better. I shot some good video and will post it soon. Somebody said they had not realised I was still diving, Of course I am. Only 4 dives last week though, Message me for details of special courses that I am teaching or trips I can organise

11.01.2022 Hey everyone, Just letting everyone know visibility on the wreck today is about 10m, hopefully it can only improve from there haha Give us a ring and book for this weekend while you can, 43841219!!

11.01.2022 Hi, How about a Father's Day gift voucher like this for: A boat dive on the Adelaide, A refresher dive. A dive course. Call the shop 43 841219 and we can personalise a voucher to suit your Dad

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10.01.2022 This is the awesome ScubaPro Mantis. Retail price of $749 but you could win it for FREE! Enter our photo comp with any dive related photo taken around Terrigal,... follow us on IG, tag us @terrigal_dive and hashtag #terrigaldivecomp to enter. Competition closes Dec 23 and there are other great diving prizes as well including double dives with us at Terrigal Dive. Call us to book in for a dive, bring your phone or camera, start shooting and entering. Good luck. See more

09.01.2022 Terrific diving today at Spoon Bay Reef. This shallow dive has to be the very best wall of soft corals, sponges and ascidians to be found anywhere on the Central Coast. The added plus, on today's, dive was a weedy sea dragon. We used to frequently see these beautiful creature in this area but a violent storm a few years ago seemed to wipe them out, so it is good to see them back. Start thinking now about booking in for next weekend's boat diving 0457841219 Les

08.01.2022 Many of my friends have for the past few years been recieving a weekly news letter from me up dating dive conditions on the wreck of the ex HMAS Adelaide. There have also been short articles on my view of our local marine life. If you have noticed the news letter did not appear for the past couple of weeks, I apologise. I have experienced a computer meltdown and lost my data base. If you would like to continue to receive the news letter please let me know at [email protected] and I can rebuild my mailing list Les

08.01.2022 Hey Guys and Girls, Fine weather is finally upon us, and for those who forget that big yellow thing is called the sun haha Whos diving this weekend????... We have spots on the 7.30 reef dive, as well as the 9.30 and 12.30 wreck dive. Give us a ring and book now 43841219!!!!

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06.01.2022 Congratulations to another successful open water course on the weekend!!!!

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04.01.2022 TERRIGAL DIVE CENTRE 0457841219 We are off to dive 'Rock Lobster Reef ' tomorrow, it seems the water is clearer up North. Vacancies for the 9.30 dive. Ring us if you want to come. Commonly known as a pack horse cray.This is where this reef gets its name. These crays are found out in the open on the reef. They grow to a size where they probably figure that nobody is going to tackle them and they are probably right

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03.01.2022 Hey Everyone, Its that time of year as we all know, but we carry on. We are starting an advanced open water course on Thursday 31st December to run over four days. Give us a ring if you are interested. 43841219!!

02.01.2022 Everyone, We have an open water course kicking off this Saturday to run over the long weekend!!! If your keen or know of anyone who is give us a ring on 43841219!!!

02.01.2022 Hey everyone, As everyone is aware of the weather of late, Terrigal dive centre is still without power. We hope everyone is doing ok and ask for your patience as we work through this. If you still wish to contact us the phone is still working so give us a call on 43841219!

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02.01.2022 Today we would like to wish Les a very happy birthday!!

01.01.2022 Hey Everyone, Christmas is just around the corner!!!! If your stuck for last minute ideas, why not give us a ring and orginise a gift voucher!!! 43841219!

01.01.2022 Need we say more about todays dive?! Better call us to book in for this weekend.

01.01.2022 New post (Terrigal Dive News 21st May 2015) has been published on Terrigal Dive

01.01.2022 When facebook keeps messaging me to put something on my site, it's time to do so. I closed the Terrigal Dive Centre after 48 years of operation. Have I stopped diving ? Of course not. !! I am fun diving (when the weather permits) Doing 'one on one' instructing from openwater courses to speciality courses, nitrox, deep, marine life etc. Plus my private speciality : Teaching how to talk clearly underwater without the use of special equipment. Give me a call at any time, I really like to hear from friends that Fran and I introduced into our underwater world. Les 0457841219 [email protected]

01.01.2022 hey guys and girls, Don't forget fathers day is just around the corner, if your looking for last minute ideas, ring the shop for a gift voucher. we can make them to suit your Dads needs so give us a call 43841219!