Rotto visability sunday
Submitted by Reefmonkey on Mon, 2011-02-28 18:35
I was blown away on sunday by the vis on at rotto dived the south side at crystal palace with an open water group and took my camera down for some happy snaps. swell will be picking up again this sunday,so after two weeks of low swells now is the time to get out and and enjoy it and get away from the sea nettle plague along perths shore. First pic was taken at 18.5m on the sand line south of the dive site waiting for the group to descend. Never been on a local dive where we could see the surface so clearly at 18m felt like it was 9 meters the whole time!
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Dave J.
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great pics. looks magical
great pics. looks magical down there. i will get there one day, in the mean time i am stuck on the surface with a snorkle
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grayzeee
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fantastic. looks so inviting
fantastic. looks so inviting
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Paul G
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Looks great we dive 2 Rock
Looks great we dive 2 Rock and viz was crap
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Nauti Buoy
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Key Biscayne
Dived the Key Biscayne on Saturday- vis was incredible, bit of a current was running though. Great Dive!
Reefmonkey
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Awesome
Bet it would have been unbelievable offshore, trying to get on a charter in the next few weeks to the KB so hopefully conditions hold out
Dave J.
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looks awesome
how deep was that?
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Reefmonkey
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18
18 meters man, like i said never seen vis like that locally all those divers in the first pic are still on the surface except one just starting descent and also the diver in mid water
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aww duh! went straight to the photos hahaha
looks awesome i should be getting my divers ticket soon
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cuthbad
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wow. that first pic is
wow. that first pic is amazing mate!
Reefmonkey
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thanks man
got one thats a little better but can't see the surface coz of bubbles, that one goes better with the topic, prob put em up on fb wen i get around to it if ya wanna check em out
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will do mate
will do mate
silly
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awesome pics! looks like it
awesome pics! looks like it stayed clear on the south side.
did a double dive north rotto on saturday, Viz started out really good 15m then dropped significantly when that northerly current came through..
Reefmonkey
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2nd dive
yea we did our second dive on the north side vis was down a bit prob only round 10-15m but still good
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Great pic that first one.
Great pic that first one. Rotto blocking all the crap coming down in the current? Dived 15km north of Rotto last wednesday and had current pushing from the south. Think it must have been a big eddy of north water hitting Rotto.
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petervb
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wow amazing viswe dived sat
wow amazing vis
we dived sat at swirl & roe reef and it was nothing like that. The southern side of the island certainly looked a lot clearer on the way over though.
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in close was horrible
I went out on Saturday arvo and Vis was horrible. Out from Mindarie and got about 8 meters adn a washing machine with the swell. We had to come in close to dive as it was so green. Only did one dive and came up early as it was a waste of time. Horrid!
How do you pick visibilty and days? No swell, bugger all wind and mint days leading up to Saturday.... yet ?!?!?!?
Reefmonkey
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Saturday
Yea me and my girlfriend went out saturday and dived the three mile strip from mindarie, due west of the alkimos wreck, we dived 18m and had pretty good vis still around 15m or so but nothin like rotto some really good looking contour lines out there for diving.
I guess most people will have there own theories on vis, mine is low swell for and extended period of days without much of a seabreeze running. I dont generally think chop or seabreeze affect it that much unless its shallow water, in the deeper stuff i tend to think only if its high seas for some time and strength. i tend to think its more from swell/surge that affects vis deeper and as the guys above said strong currents, definately noticed the current diving off mindarie saturday and would explain to me why south side rotto was so good as it would b sheltered from the current.
Dave J.