William Dawes - Saturday 7th May 2011

The signs were worrying and all surf websites were excited, which wasn’t good news for The Sydney Project as 4-5m swells continued to roll up the NSW coast. A week out of heading down south surfers were excited about another pulse to come up from the Tasman.

With just two days to go weather reports gave some hope of the oceans calming down and by Friday 6th May 2011 forecasts predicted 2m ocean swell over the weekend rising again on Sunday. A perfect dive window for the Williams Dawes and WTF wrecks.

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Mate, I think you better take the suit off and go for it!!

And so the weekend began with a bang, after some hassles with organising the boat and accommodation in Forster, on arrival and it was smooth sailing.

NSW was suffering a heat wave during that week, and originally the dive operator was going to book us into a motel, which we found out before leaving Sydney had broken air-conditioning.  Michael Kalman and Damian quickly jumped on the net and booked us an alternative place, which turned out to be quite good and comfortable. But with early wake up to load the boat at 6A.M, they were not in a hurry to go to sleep, with Louis yet to arrive from Brisbane.

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After touch and go with weather, we finally did get a dive on the WTF and what a great dive it was.

The four of us that went: Dave Apperley, Craig Challen, Stephen Loneregan and I, were still rather worried about the strong winds on Friday, but decided that the only way to check this is by getting out there, and assess the conditions on open water.

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After several setback with weather in 2010, we finally were ready to travel down South to Bermagui, and dive on our mystery wreck that we trying to identify.

By Friday we ended up with just 3 bottom divers, with Dave not getting his cells on time have killed his chances of any diving. Everyone arrived in Bermagui on Friday and had dinner at the pub, except for me being unsocial bastard who stayed in the bar to watch the Footy (Ed Note: Watching the Doggies loose I suspect)!!!

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