by Samir Alhafith 

Expedition Date: May 10th & 11th 2008

by Andy Dell

Expedition Date: April 19th 2008

by Stephen Loneragan

Dive Log              May 2008              Issue 238

by Samir Alhafith

Dive Log          April 2008        Issue 237

By: Andy Dell

Oh – you mean the SS Wear? Well… the week of May 7 was one full of an old feeling that had been lacking for a while, anticipation mingled with a healthy dose of nervousness. Something new was on for me: a dive to 120m on the SS Wear.

By: Mark Spencer

Expedition Date: February 17th & 18th 2007

The Sydney Project dive team comprised Samir Alhafith, Kevin Okeby, Mark Spencer, Fritz Breuseker, Phil Gray, Mike Wynd, Michael Kalman, Tony Keen, Mark Eaves with Barry Brock (a neighbour and friend of Kevin’s) providing valuable and appreciated assistance on the boat.

By: Samir Alhafith

Arriving above the wreck site and finding that dark blue water always brings out the excitement of the chance of that elusive yet perfect dive. It’s the dive that you are always yearning for, where the water is so clear you can see the bottom, and the wreck,  from just a few metres down, with no current allowing a diver to just glide down, flying in free fall as if he were a bird.

By: Dave Apperley

PARTICIPANTS:  Paul Garske, David Apperley, Samir Alhafith

By: Samir Alhafith

At the time when a group of Sydney Project divers were diving the new wreck Wear of Montague Island, new information came from Rocco “Rocky” lagana a local fisherman in Bermagui that he have a position for what he believes is a large wreck. Keith Appleby was able to pass the area and verify the position on the GPS. This took him just two tries to confirm the site, and all that was left was to dive it to make sure that it’s a wreck.

By: Samir Alhafith

When you talk about ship wrecks the term “bringing it back” one would assume I’m talking about artifacts that divers dream on recovering. But no, what I’m talking about is bringing back the wreck back to life in a totally different way.

By: Samir Alhafith

You’re so quick to tell me I’m wrong and that I shouldn’t do it this way or that way. Why not? Who are you to tell me this? You are not my mother!

By: Samir Alhafith

It is supposed to be fun, I think to myself, so why do I feel like jumping off the boat and making for the shore? Why can’t I just sit here and enjoy the Sun, the blue water and the crisp morning air? When will they stop looking at me, pointing at me, and calling me names? Is the abuse a part of the charter that I was not told about?

By: Samir Alhafith

How do circumstances trigger something to happen in the future, which you may not necessarily realise at the time of it’s happening? I believe strongly that in life things happen for a reason, and this is just one small example of  this.

By: Andrew Cronan

It started innocently enough, as these things normally do, I was just chatting to Paul Garske on Barry Hallet’s boat returning from one of the Long Reef wrecks when he mentions a new wreck down south that hasn’t been dived before and would I be interested? A couple of email exchanges, a few forms to join the Sydney Project, an initiation that involved a goat and a tank of heliox and I am on my way to Bermagui for the October Long Weekend.