Dive 2000 Dive Club - Sydney :: Terrigal Double Dive Day

Dive 2000 Dive Club has embarked on a series of Sunday dive days that provide opportunities to explore Sydney, Central Coast and South Coast dive sites and providing the opportunity to have social picnics between boat and shore dives at these excellent dive locations.

Our March Magic Point, Maroubra Double Boat Dive to see the Grey Nurse Sharks and BBQ lunch was a great success. Our April Kurnell, Botany Bay Treasure Hunt delivered good diving, a sensational BBQ and wonderful prizes which included a trip on the five star Mike Ball Spoilsport Live aboard dive vessel, MV Spoilsport.

Last weekend club members and non members met at Terrigal. 90 minutes scenic drive up the expressway north of Sydney and yes, it’s a hat trick! Flat calm seas, blue sky, blue water and a great combination of shore dives and boat dives.

The shore dives straight off the sheltered beach at the Haven produced a variety of marine life; most impressive were the giant black stingrays that are resident in the bay. These gentle giants with wing spans of two meters enthralled our divers as they flew past in the sunlit 15 meter visibility.

The boat dives provided access to some very interesting dive sites including a cavern, sponge garden reefs, marine life encounters including the Giant Australian Cuttle, free swimming morays, schools of pelagic fish and rare nudibranchs.

The Terrigal Dive centre team and Dive 2000 team supplied mouth watering chocolate cake, cookies and a bottomless supply of hot plunger coffee or tea which was consumed on the sundeck overlooking the sparkling waters of Terrigal Haven.

Les Graham, owner of Terrigal Dive Centre skippered his dive boat while Kevin Deacon, owner of Dive 2000 Dive Centre provided shore support. Few of the dive participants would know that both Les and Kevin are among the very few original dive industry pioneers of scuba diving in Australia. Both have over 40 years experience and over 10.000 dives. Dive 2000 Instructor Scott Igyarto led his open water dive class through their final course dives while Dive masters Cherie Deacon and Patrick Dwyer enjoyed leading qualified divers during the beach and boat dives.

We look forward to more adventures back on the central coast, especially when the navy destroyer HMAS Adelaide is sunk in 30 meters depth at Terrigal next year to provide an artificial reef and a great wreck dive.