We're on our last day of our Fiji trip and what a trip it has been!! Volivoli Beach Resort has been absolutely amazing in taking us out to some of the best soft coral dives we have ever seen anywhere in the world!! ?????? Thank you to our to the amazing dive staff Akema, Tex, Jesse and Lela for making every dive a breeze and each one more spectacular than the last!! ??? And thank you to all the divers who joined Ron on the trip this year: Anannya, Brad, Daina, Max, Paul, Petal, Richard, Shane, Shelley, Sof, Tracy! ???? We've seen sharks, rays, soo many macro critters, octopuses, big and small shrimps and so many tropical fish, it really blew our minds! Check out the video for a selection of what we've seen and if you're keen to join us on the next one, surf to our website for all our upcoming trips (we have Truk, Raja Ampat, Tubbataha Reef and Komodo all coming up)!! ???? ? www.divingadelaide.com.au ?? Fiji Overseas Dive Trip (videos of the shark dive extension to follow soon!)

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Last month we enjoyed a week of diving in the Solomon Islands. We flew via Brisbane to Honiara and then on to Munda in the Western Province with a group of 18 divers! Our group was split over 4 boats with 2 guides and a boat driver and we explored many of the wrecks in the area! There are plain wrecks to explore, a big Japanese shipwreck and obviously lots of reefs and wall dives! This video is about all the wrecks we have dived on during our time in Munda: - F4F-4 Wildcat - Airacobra P-39 - Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless - Kashi Maru Online Store: http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au Dive Centre Website: http://www.divingadelaide.com.au

Wooop, we had the most amazing holiday in the Philippines in June, diving at Malapascua Island (with the thresher sharks), Moalboal (with lots of turtles) and Oslob (with 14 whalesharks!!). This is the second video of the trip, not about the sharks, but about all the other things we've seen on the trip!! With lots of pipefish, countless nudibranchs and heaps of other macro critters, it was a stunning trip that we'll never forget!! Thanks Roger, Jenny, Merv, Richard, Sam, Gill and Rob for joining us on the trip, we can't wait for the next one!! Keen to join our trips next year? Dive with bull, tiger and reef sharks at Fiji in August or join our luxury liveaboard in Palau in July for big animals and WWII wrecks!! Fore more information, please visit: http://divingadelaide.com.au/calendar/overseas-trips/

Last week we have enjoyed a week of diving in the Solomon Islands. We flew via Brisbane to Honiara and then on to Munda in the Western Province with a group of 18 divers! Our group was split over 4 boats with 2 guides and a boat driver each and explored sites like the Airacobra, Wildcat and Dauntless plane wrecks, the Kashi Maru wreck as well as lots of wall dives and the best dive of the trip: Mbigo Mbigo with lots of sharks, manta rays and eagle rays! We had some rough weather along the way, which is very unusual for this time of the year, but the diving was still absolutely incredible! :)

Wooop, we had the most amazing holiday in the Philippines last week, diving at Malapascua Island (with the thresher sharks), Moalboal (with lots of turtles) and Oslob (with 14 whalesharks!!). With lots of pipefish, countless nudibranchs and heaps of other macro critters, it was a stunning trip that we'll never forget!! Thanks Roger, Jenny, Merv, Richard, Sam, Gill and Rob for joining us on the trip, we can't wait for the next one!! Keen to join our trips next year? Dive with bull, tiger and reef sharks at Fiji in August (more info to follow soon!) or join our luxury liveaboard in Palau in July for big animals and WWII wrecks!! Fore more information, please visit: http://divingadelaide.com.au/calendar/overseas-trips/

We went out for a day of scuba diving with Donegal Charters (Richard Kee) to the island of Inishtrahull in Ireland's far north. It was an absolutely beautiful day with 20+ degrees and calm waters with little movement! The common seals were a little bit shy at first, but soon their curiosity won and they kept coming in for a closer look! Awesome experience and a stunning day out! http://www.divingadelaide.com.au http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au BACK IN SUMMER by Nicolai Heidlas Music https://soundcloud.com/nicolai-heidlas Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported- CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/sGsC98vR4Q4

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http://www.divingadelaide.com.au http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au Awesome dive in the "Southern Shallows" - the southern part of the Port Noarlunga Reef! This part of the reef is harder to reach than the northern part (which can simply be dived from the jetty) and therefore not dived that often. Brett and Ron decided to explore the whole southern part of the reef, including the gap (where marker number 8 is located) - a dive that took us 86 minutes with a maximum depth of 18.3 metres in the gap (the average depth is only about 4-6 metres). The conditions were great with about 10 metres visibility and a little bit of surge. We dived it on a sunny Autumn day when there was a dodge tide (minimal tidal movement). The water temperature was 20 degrees Celsius. Video shot at Port Noarlunga Reef South Australia 30/03/2015 (C) Ron van der Marel Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Brett Blackwell (Diving Adelaide Divemaster) This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 in a dive housing

www.divingadelaide.com.au www.onlinedivegear.com.au The wreck of the Glenelg Dredge (officially "The South Australian") was built in 1911 in The Netherlands and arrived in Adelaide about a year later. It was purposely sunk in 1985 as an artificial reef for divers and fishermen to enjoy. The ship sits in just under 20 metres of water in an upright position and is easy to navigate around. There are big holes in the wreck, so it's easy to penetrate and as the deck sits in approximately 14 metres you can do a nice long dive on it. The site has heaps of bullseyes on it and today when we dived it there were about 10 cuttlefish underneath the wreck! You can also find plenty of the other usual suspects and the wreck itself is covered in soft corals, so there is more than enough to explore. We had about 10 metres visibility on the wreck itself, there were no currents and the water temperature was around 15 degrees Celsius. www.divingadelaide.com.au www.onlinedivegear.com.au Video shot at The South Australian (Glenelg Dredge) South Australia 09/06/2014 (C) Ron van der Marel Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Shane Lees (Diving Adelaide Divemaster Trainee) Brett Blackwell Chris Rapson This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 in a dive housing.

www.divingadelaide.com.au www.onlinedivegear.com.au The wreck of the Norma is now well over 100 years old. It sank after it was hit by the barque Ardencraig, who misjudged the distance between the two ships due to extremely heavy rains. Right after the two collided and the Norma sank (within about 15 minutes), the Jessie Darling came to the rescue, which hit the at that point very shallow wreck of the Norma and also sank. The Jessie Darling was later re-floated and repaired. The incident with the Jessie Darling made the authorities decide to dynamite the site, to limit the risks of this massive wreck in the shipping lane. Because of this, the wreck site is very spread out. It took us well over 30 minutes to circumvent the whole site. There is an amazing amount of fish life on the wreck, mostly bullseyes, but also heaps of whiting and other schools of fish. You can clearly identify big parts of the ship. I've heard from different sources that there is a wobbegong shark living in the bow of the ship, but the three times that I have dived it I have never found it. As you can see in the video, there is a marker/plaque in the middle of the wreck site, that tells the story of the Norma. This dive site is usually quite murky, so we were very happy with the 10 metres visibility that we had when we dived it. There wasn't much current and the water temperature was about 22 degrees Celsius. Video shot at The Norma South Australia 09/03/2014 (C) Ron van der Marel / Brett Blackwell Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Denise Kuijlaars (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Brett Blackwell Boat: Flinders University Underwater Club (FUUC) This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 and a GoPro HERO3, both in a dive housing

http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au http://www.divingadelaide.com.au The Glenelg Blocks are a well known dive site, but not many people dive it from shore. The blocks, which are located about 600m off shore from popular Glenelg Beach, are obviously a fair swim out from the beach and because the jetty doesn't have a lot of life on it, the blocks and jetty isn't a popular shore dive. On a day of flat calm seas, blue skies and the sun high in the sky, Kingsley, Brett and Ron decided to have a look under the jetty and make the swim to the blocks to have a look around. As this dive site is only 5m. deep and so close to shore, most divers we know rather do a different dive site, instead of the blocks (and if you've paid your dollars for one of the dive charters to take you out, that makes a lot of sense). The blocks is a great training site though and it reminded us of Port Noarlunga Reef in a lot of aspects, such as fish life, depth, growth and more. In between the jetty and the blocks (which is about 500m), there is not a fish to be seen. Well, maybe one or two, but not very many. However, besides the algae there are heaps of crabs, plenty of nudibranchs, seastars and other small marine life (we even found a pipefish) to be found here, so if you are going to do this dive, make sure you keep your eyes open. If you follow straight west on your compass from the jetty out, you will cover the area where the old jetty used to be. Besides heaps of lead (sinkers), there are quite a few bits and pieces of the jetty to be seen down here. Don't expect to see the complete remnants of the old jetty to be seen down there though, as most of it must have simply washed ashore over the years. The visibility was pretty good a little bit further out (about 8m), we were surprised by the temperature which was already up at 21 degrees in the shallows and 20 degrees near the blocks in mid-December and all in all, we would consider this a good dive site, considering that it's literally on our doorstep. Video shot at Glenelg Jetty & Blocks South Australia 05/12/2013 (C) Ron van der Marel Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Kingsley Griffin (Diving Adelaide Instructor) Brett Blackwell This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 in a dive housing.

http://www.divingadelaide.com.au http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au We drove all the way out to Rapid Bay to dive with a group of our ex Open Water students and their friends (7 in total) on the old Rapid Bay Jetty! The plan was to do a double dive and explore as much of the jetty as we could and to get to at least the T-section to see the massive schools of fish that are always swimming in between the many pylons of the T! As soon as we arrived, we recognised the "milky glow" that Rapid Bay can have after heavy rainfall and we feared the worse, but a quick walk on the jetty revealed that the visibility at the entry point was still quite good (we could easily see the bottom), so we decided to kit up and get ready for the first dive! The visibility was great on the first dive (about 10m) and there wasn't any current running (which was lucky, as a group of divers exiting the water said that they had to work hard as there was quite a strong current while they were diving)! The visibility on the second dive was a bit less (the tide was now going out, so the milkyness was being washed out, so we had a "murky 5-10m visibility". We did get to the T-section on the second dive and even had a quick look around the old pylons behind the T and the massive a-frame that has been on the inside of the T for ages. The water temperature was a steady 18 degrees Celsius. Video shot at Rapid Bay Jetty South Australia 08/12/2013 (C) Ron van der Marel Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Denise Kuijlaars (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Peter Bai Scott Ren Yuyu Xu Rachel Feng Hualong DaHe Bella This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 in a dive housing

http://www.divingadelaide.com.au http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au This was simply one of those days that is hard to beat. After being in contact all day with the question whether or not to go for a quick afternoon dive, Diving Adelaide Divers Damian and Ron decided to head down to Hallett Cove to explore the reef and see what's out there! Visibility had been amazing for the last couple of weeks, so we didn't expect anything less this Monday afternoon, but we couldn't have expected that we were in for such a massive surprise! After a cruisy dive on the reef, we suddenly saw a big dark shape moving in the distance on our way back in. Not quite sure what it was, we decided to keep the camera rolling and go in for a closer look and within seconds we realised it was a super curious and playful dolphin that seemed just as happy to see us under there as we were to see it! For both of us this was the first time ever to see a wild dolphin under water and we have to say that there isn't much that we've seen before that compares! What an amazing experience! The visibility was still great (between 10 and 15 metres), there was a slight current running and the water temperature was about 17 degrees Celsius! Video shot at Hallett Cove Reef South Australia 25/11/2013 (C) Ron van der Marel Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Damian Bishop (Diving Adelaide Divemaster) This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 in a dive housing.

http://www.divingadelaide.com.au http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au South Australia really has it all. Where else can you simply walk in from the beach, swim out for a bit and dive a 125 year old historical shipwreck like the Star of Greece! After hearing so much about it, Brett, Denise and Ron went out for a very long dive on the wreck and the reef right next to it. The reef gets down to about 8 metres and is not a bad dive by itself (besides the usual suspects, we found two very uncommon nudibranchs, quite a few crabs, a flathead and some big schools of fish on the reef). After a nice and cruisy dive on the reef you get to the shipwreck, which actually covers quite a large area (the ship was an iron three master, so it must have been massive!) and there is heaps of life on it! There used to be a buoy on this wreck, which made it easy to find, but unfortunately that is gone now (November 2013). At low tide though, when we dived it, you can see one of the masts sticking out (only about 40 centimeters or so) which makes the wreck easy to locate. You can also keep heading north along the beach in about 3.5 metres of water and you will find it. The day we dived it we had beautiful visibility (about 10-15 metres on the reef and more above the sand). We didn't encounter any currents and the water temperature was around the 17 degrees Celsius. Video shot at Port Willunga South Australia 24/11/2013 (C) Ron van der Marel Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Denise Kuijlaars (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Brett Blackwell This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 in a dive housing

http://www.divingadelaide.com.au http://www.onlinedivegear.com.au Nothing better than getting out to the Rapid Bay Jetty on a Sunday afternoon with the sun high in the sky and the ocean being like glass! Diving Adelaide instructors Grant and Ron went for a double dive on the old jetty to see whether the pregnant leafy still had the eggs on his tail! Right after jumping in we went straight for the T-section, where we encountered the usual massive schools of fish and a few playful morwongs. In the "grids" behind the we found our dragon and it won't take long now until we can spot young dragons again, as the eggs on its tail had all popped! The visibility was incredible (probably about 15 metres), there almost weren't any currents and the water temperature was about 17 degrees Celsius! Video shot at Rapid Bay Jetty South Australia 17/11/2013 (C) Ron van der Marel Divers: Ron van der Marel (Diving Adelaide Owner/Instructor) Grant Moyle (Diving Adelaide Instructor) This video was shot using a GoPro HERO2 in a dive housing.