Our pre-typhoon dive on Sat 15th Sep was cancelled at the last minute to allow the dive boats to take their places in the typhoon shelters and that turned out to be a smart move as DA3 rocked up unsullied on Tuesday 25th Sep. Our Captain and First Mate seemed in better spirits that usual. The fetching floral attire of the Captain perhaps reflecting his joy at his boat surviving the storm. Sadly, Mr Chris Roberts was not on board so there was no chance to start a "best wors

The weather for Sunday was forecast to improve all day to sunshine and it did. So from a grey start we headed from the jetty before 9am in another record loading of the boat. We had 7 divers and two passengers for the trip under the heavenly stewardship of Niven-a. Hell for a fish is up, whereas heaven for a diver is down. I say heavenly, more zen-like, meditative, persistent vegetative state. Sea state calm, wind undetermined, tide unknown we headed for the Dollos. The wat