OZDIVER July / September 2016 AUSTRALIA’S PREMIER DIVE MAGAZINE IT IS THE JOURNEY AND NOT THE DESTINATION - WWW.OZDIVER.COM.AU THE DESTINATION NOT AND JOURNEY IT IS THE DIVE RED SEA NINGALOO WRECKS II ZANZIBAR & PEMBA DIVING THE DIVING TITANIC AND THE BODY DAMPIER SYSTEMS STRAITS J uly / uly / S eptember 2016 eptember FREE Digital Diving Magazine - www.ozdiver.com.au Christopher Bartlett first dive the following day I looked back and saw that he was just dropping into the depths. Because we were diving on nitrox, our maximum operating depth was only 32m but he was deeper and still going. Editor-in-chief Johan Boshoff [email protected] I saw the dive master start chasing him Marketing down the wall before stopping – he was [email protected] Editor’s already past his limit on the maximum + 61 (00) 44 887 9903 operating depth and the diver, my buddy, Photographer just continued going deeper and deeper. I Christopher Bartlett & David Caravias Deco stop realised that he was now in big trouble… Contributing Editor Irene Groenewald so I folded up my camera and started the Johan Boshoff Proof Readers Diving with a buddy is always the best chase. At around 54m I caught him. I Irene Groenewald option. Or is it? I know that the first lesson took him up to where the dive master was Charlene Nieuwoudt that you get when doing open water is waiting – I knew that I was pushing the Izak Nieuwoudt being taught that if you “dive alone, you die limits but if I didn’t do it, what would have Administration Amilda Boshoff alone,” but is this always true? happened to him? [email protected] Creative Director Let me tell you a story about something that After the dive I asked him what happened, TheDiveSpot-OZDiver happened to me recently on a liveaboard. and he told me that he was going down Web Master Irene Groenewald At the beginning of a trip you are assigned and then he couldn’t remember anything Trianqular X a buddy. Mine was an oldest person on until the dive master was shaking him – he Publisher board who had advanced qualification and a must have blacked out. He asked me what Johan Boshoff number of dives under his belt. He did not depth I had to go to fetch him, to which TheDiveSpot-OZDiver look like a bad diver. So on the first dive he replied, “I am very impressed with my Distribution In GOD I trust. everything went well with no problems. heart pacer because it is only rated to Contributers Everything seemed okay with my buddy and 18m.” Christopher Bartlett, Nuno Gomes, David I thought that we would end up having some Caravias, R Bester, Beulah & Roland Mauz, Pieter Smith, Dr. Jean Vorster, Pieter Venter, Jill fun dives together. So is diving with a buddy better than diving Holloway, David Holloway, Quintin de Boer, Amilda Boshoff alone? I guess it depends on who the Neil Wiltshire, Pieter Herbs, Barry Coleman, After the second dive he came to me and buddy is. Don Shirley, Andre Crone. told me that he had a problem with his dive computer. At first glance I saw that he had not set his nitrox mixture correctly before The Editor & Publisher it’s FREE and it’s online the dive, and subsequently his computer Johan Boshoff had shut him out. 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Primary Contributors Christopher Bartlett Andre Crone Nuno Gomes Fiona McIntoch David Caravias Barry Coleman Peter Pinnock Gerrit Maritz 3 OZDiver Magazine www.ozdiver.com.au July / September 2016 4 COVER PHOTO Christopher Bartlett CONTENTS www.bartlettimages.com Regulars Through the Lens 3 – Editor’s Deco 87 – Photo Competition 4– The Team 91 – Photo School Letters 93 – Editing School 7 – Log Book Giant Stride Dive the Continent 97 – Nova Generation 9 – OZ News 111 – The Titanic 15 –Dive Ningaloo Reef Technically Speaking Weird and Wonders 119 – Gas Supply 31 – Bull Shark 123 – Q&A 33 – Mangroves 37 – Oil Spills Instructor Diaries 127 – Log Dive Med 39 –Body Systems Part II Gear Talk Dive the Globe 129 – Kitting Up 41 – Global News 135 – Reviews 47 – Dampier Straits 61 – Zanzibar & Pemba Safety Stop 73 – The Roundhouse 139 – Funnies Wreck Explorations Dive Operators 77 – Nothern Red Sea Christopher Bartlett 141 – Listings Dive Ningaloo - Pg 15 Dampier Straits - Pg 47 Zanzibar & Pemba - Pg 61 Northern Red Sea Wrecks - Pg 77 FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE 5 OZDiver Magazine www.ozdiver.com.au July / September 2016 6 Letters Letters Log Book Log Book thing”, I asked. “Okay” said the guard. wearing a wetsuit I asked him to tug the jacket off from behind, NEVER try on your wetsuit when there is no-one which he did. As the steam escaped into around to help you get out of it. the night air, he asked, “What is this for?” I replied, “To swim underwater”. He said, “Okay”, NEVER try to use a plastic coat hanger to try pull Christopher Bartlett KNOWING that there isn’t a pool in the complex! off your suit Lessons to be learnt: And last, but not least, NEVER do the above and Photos: NEVER look at your thighs in a mirror when expect people NOT to laugh at you! Don’t try this on your own! Having overcome the trauma of seeing my thighs magnified by the extra layer of neoprene By Nicole Brower rubber and it being a very warm evening, I needed to get out of the suit. I tried to slip out I doubt that this truly qualifies as a close call - of the jacket, one shoulder at a time. It was no sharks, no pirates, but seeing as I have ONLY impossible. The fresh rubber, determined to JUST started my PADI Open Water 1 course, and keep me covered, kept springing back up. have had limited experience, this was the closest call I have ever had! I tried to use a plastic coat hanger to hook the back of the jacket and pull it down. So much I ordered my tailored wetsuit from Cressi, just for plastic coat hangers, $10 for 10! As my a week before my first pool session. It was a frustration and exertion continued, my body rush for them to get it ready in time, but on the temperature rose. Sleeping in the thing was Saturday morning my suit was delivered. It was NOT an option. magnificent! A beautiful 2 piece, with front- zipping jacket and farmer john, in black and pink What if I needed the loo? I needed help to get neoprene. No shark would mistake me for a out of the suit. What were my options, seeing seal! that I live alone, short of getting out the kitchen scissors? Phone a friend? It was 11’30pm. I spend the day happily in the pool, learning the Phone the police? (As if they don’t have enough skills and doing the silly things that novice divers to do?) I was stuck. do. That evening, filled with the joys of nitrogen I decided to try on my wetsuit to see what I Finally in a hot and desperate panic I got into my looked like in it. (There are no full length mirrors car and drove down to the security guard in the Send your letter to us and win at dive pool). complex. As I neared the guard house I called a Marine Life Species Guide out of the window, “I need help”.