Weather forecast for the 25th/ 26th/ 27th of February, 2017 - AWESOME... Come and see the sharks this weekend!

So we're pretty excited here at Dive Forster - take a look at these forecasts!

Windguru Forecast as at 23rd Feb - 13:30hrs

Willyweather Forecast as at 23rd Feb - 13:30hrs

February heralds the arrival of the BEST Diving conditions here - our peak SCUBA season will now continue right through to early June, where the expectation is warm water and awesome visibility. 

We should also see the Grey Nurse Shark numbers increase as they head to aggregation sites at Latitude Rock, Spot A, the Pinnacle and Big and Little Seal Rock to procreate. 

In addition to this, we've also got our year 'round huge fish stocks thanks to the Marine Sanctuary Zones. 

This weekend will be an incredible chance to get in and experience flat seas, clear water and ++++ sharks! 

Get in touch with us via email: dive@diveforster.com.au or call us (02) 6554 7478 to book in. 

Gabs! ✌ 🌝 🐠
gabby@diveforster.com.au
(02) 6554 7478

23rd February, 2017 

Awesome video of Grey Nurse Sharks at Seal Rocks!

Dive Travel with Dive Forster

Owner of Dive Forster at Fisherman’s Wharf, Ron Hunter, has been organising and running Dive Tours all over the world for the last twenty-five years.

During this time Ron recognised a demand for properly escorted tours to the best, iconic, unique and often out of the way dive locations. 

Over the last twelve years Ron and his team have escorted tours to these “best of the best” destinations, many of which had not been experienced by Australian groups previously. These SCUBA diving tours are now predominantly on liveaboards, without a doubt THE best way to enjoy great diving. 

Ron has always endeavoured to include an adventure component, as well as great SCUBA diving into the tours, and now is also including photographic workshops on many of the tours. The adventure and photographic components have become so popular, that there are now a number of Photographic Safari tours to Africa every year, with an optional diving component included.

Stay tuned to the Dive Travel section of our blog to receive regular updates on new destinations. 

Seal Rocks TURNS IT ON!

Have we got exciting reports for you!

Seal Rocks has turned ON in the last week, with some very lucky divers heading down there on Sunday for some shark packed diving.

First dive in at Little Seal Rock had 2 massive Grey Nurses and plenty of fish. The vis could have been better, with only around 10m. Water temp was 19 degrees. 

The second dive at Big Seal Rock was what impressed everyone.

There were no less than 30 sharks in the western gutter, all swimming in and out and around our very happy divers. Our divemasters lead their groups over to the fish bowl where king fish and grey nurses flitted around, a bit stirred up. What was stirring them up? We don't know. We couldn't see anything, but the Nurses started hiding behind our group of divers so there was something out there in the blue. Everyone came up whooping and cheering after that dive - boy was I sad that I was shop wench on that day. The Vis was about 10 m at Big Rock as well, water was a bit warmer at 21 degrees.
We got in yesterday for a dive at Spot A and a dive at the Bait Grounds. 

Heaps of eels and even an Octopus at Spot A, vis was okay at 5- 8m, water temp varied between 22 degrees down to 19.

We headed in shore to the Bait Grounds on a hunch we'd find sharks, and we did!

As we descended the mooring line we were met with two sea cows casually travelling along the sandy bottom.

One of our divers knelt on the bottom and got promptly zapped by a numb ray. What a shocking start!

Just as I began to lead the divers around the site, a Grey Nurse cruised past less than 2 metres in front of the group. And as we explored the area, this was pretty typical, with not a minute going past without spotting a shark! Incredible! There was a massive eel in one of the holes with two cleaner shrimp sitting on top of him. So much life and colour on this dive site, and all with a max depth of 9 metres! Woo hoo!!

Headed off to Seal Rocks on Friday, and diving locally out of Forster tomorrow. You'll have to book though, its pretty special at the moment, and there aren't a lot of places left!

Keep those bubbles popping,

Gabs
Dive Forster at Fisherman's Wharf

p.s. those of you who may be interested in joining us for a dive on the S.S. Satara drop us a line or throw in a comment, we're putting together a boat load to do it sometime soon!

Seas are flat flat flat!

6 lucky divers headed out yesterday onboard the Avanti to check out the Pinnacle and Latitude Rock. We headed out at around midday after conducting some very exciting dolphin swims.

The Pinnacle was very green and murky on top to around 10 metres, but cleared up nicely to around 15 metre vis on the bottom. Heaps of kingfish and one huge snapper circled around above us as we explored the rocky outcrop. No Grey Nurses (that we saw), however there were heaps of Wobbegongs and a couple of rays.

Latitude Rock was super flat, so we were able to get right in close to the island to explore the inner gutter. No sharks in "The Pit" on the northern side of the island yet, but they were swimming in the Kelp Gutter just off the rock. We spied at least 5 sharks here, one of them close to 4 metres and the biggest shark I've ever seen! 

One of the sharks however had around 2 feet of wire trace and a sinker at the end hanging from his mouth. Will take a pair of bolt cutters down and try to cut it off nice and short tomorrow. 

The boat is down at Seal Rocks with 15 divers on board while I'm stuck in the shop (lucky things). Will let you guys know what it was like down there.

Just keep swimming!

Gabs

Dive Forster at Fisherman's Wharf

Sharks at Latitude and Eeeeeeeeels at Spot A!

Well we were at it again today, heading out with some lucky divers to Latitude Rock and Spot A.

Spot A went off today, with around 28 eels (both green, mozaic and white spotted)  Plus the massive ball of Bullseyes snoozing in the gutter on the sandy side of the rock was cool to swim through! Vis was 15 metres, dropped to 10 metres at the end of the dive.

Latitude Rock was better than yesterday, with at least 8 Grey Nurse Sharks chilling out in the gutters, as well as the usual suspects: bait balls, Wobbegongs, Port Jackson Sharks and of course the resident Blue Grouper(s). Visibility was 15 metres, water temp was 22 degrees. Diver's smiles: huge!

We're diving out of Forster on Saturday, and we've got Seal Rocks scheduled for Sunday (this dive is almost full though, so you'll need to book - everyone is super keen to get in the water down there!)

Keep blowing those bubbles guys!

Gabs
Dive Forster at Fisherman's Wharf

Christmas and New Years Diving

Hello everyone in the SCUBA Diving Community,

Well, after eating far too much yesterday for Christmas Lunch, all the divemasters here are going to have a tough time fitting into our wetsuits for this weeks SCUBA Diving!!

The forecast is looking spectacular for the next week, with light southerly winds flattening our seas and cleaning up the water. We're diving every day on demand during the next month (weather permitting of course) and my oh my is it shaping up to be an absolute ripper of a season.

We headed out to the Pinnacle for some maintenance last week, with some much needed repairs being conducted on the mooring line. Of course, the Kingfish, Jewfish, Snapper, Rays and Sharks kept us entertained while we were hard at work, so it wasn't too bad a way to spend a few hours. The visibility on top was a bit murky, but at about 15 metres things cleared up to about 20m vis, water temp was around 22 degrees.

We were out diving on Christmas Eve, doing another dive at The Pinnacle, and then a dive each at Latitude and then Spot A. Two Grey Nurses were spotted at Latitude in the outer gutter, as well as a massive eagle ray and a couple of giant bait balls. Was a bit surgy in at Latitude close to the rock, so most of the dive was spent further out in the deeper water. Visibility was around 10m, water temp 23 degrees. Should see an increase in Shark Numbers with the flat seas and south-east/west winds.

Spot A gets more and more colourful each dive, with Moray Eels and Wobbegongs mixed in with every colour sponge you could think of. Too early for the Grey Nurses at Spot A, but we should see them head out there around March/April (Just in time for Easter!). Was a bit cooler at Spot A compared to Latitude, water temp dropped to around 20 degrees, vis was similar - around 10m.

Looking off the headland this morning we noticed the water looking a lot clearer - fingers crossed it continues to clear up over the next few days.

Its a overcast and raining at the moment, with a light breeze. Still a bit of residual swell around from yesterday, but its forecast to die down during the night.

Diving is on tomorrow (27th) 8.30 for 9am. Looking forward to getting in the water, thats for sure!!

Any of you travelling up to Forster, or travelling anywhere for your holidays, please drive safely and watch out for these wet roads - after a big dry spell like we've had they can be super slippery after rain and dangerous so knock a few kms off your speed!

Hope to see you diving soon,

Gabs,

for the Dive Forster at Fisherman's Wharf Team