Dive Gloves are vital to ensure that you stay warm whether you dive in a wetsuit or a drysuit. Granted, in warmer climates and even during the summer in the Southern Australia, you may be able to get away without diving gloves but even a thin one will increase your warmth drastically.
Choosing the thickness of diving glove is quite easy — the colder the water the thicker the dive glove! Getting the size right is the vital part, because even if you wind up with a small air space at the end of the finger in your dive glove then the air within that space will get cold, very cold!
Our best selling dive gloves in the shop for local conditions are the Apollo Proflex 2 mm Dive Gloves. They provide a good combination of warmth and dexterity. Serious hunter gatherers prefer a pair of Apollo Apollo Kevlar 3 mm Commercial Dive Gloves because the kevlar palms provide great protection.
In order to get you the perfect glove fit, please download and print our Glove Size Chart (PDF file, 1 page, 120 Kb), which will help you to be able to get the right size.
Disclaimer: The Glove Size Chart has general guidelines only. Sizes are not guaranteed.
Note: When printing the PDF file, set "Actual Size", or scaling to "none", in order to get an accurate measurement.
The Scuba Doctor dive shop has a great selection of quality dive gloves for scuba diving at affordable prices.
Reef Dive | Boat access
Depth: 2 m (6.56 ft) to 25 m (82 ft)
Level: Advanced Open Water and beyond.
Larkin Cove, on the eastern side of Wilsons Promontory, is a safe site suitable for scuba diving from a boat and snorkelling from the shore. Larkin Cove lies in the Wilsons Promontory Marine Reserve facing north into Bass Strait and receives only low waves at the shore.
Larkin Cove lies between Refuge Cove to the north and Bare Back Cove to the south. Larkin Cove Beach is composed of coarse, white quartz sand that results in a steep, barless beach, with seagrass growing in the relatively deep water just off the shoreline. Larkin Cove Beach is just 80 metres in length.
The attraction at Larkin Cove is some low granite swim throughs and caves. One found at 7 metres depth is 12 metres long and a torch is handy for exploring it. The seaweed in the area seems to collect silt which is readily stirred up, but it is generally an easy dive. There is still plenty of the usual reef marine life to see.
Due to the long trek overland to get here, this site is really only accessible for snorkelling and apnea diving from shore. For scuba divers, it's a boat dive.
Ideal Conditions: Larkin Cove is best dived with calm seas, no swell and no wind. Light offshore south-westerly to south-easterly winds may be acceptable. Avoid strong onshore northerly to easterly winds. See WillyWeather (Larkin Cove) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.
Bass Strait Warning: Always keep an eye on sea conditions throughout any shore or boat dive in Bass Strait on Victoria's coastline. Please read the warnings on the web page diving-in-bass-strait before diving or snorkelling this site.
{{wilsons-promontory-marine-reserve}}Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. This truly ancient Country includes parts of Port Phillip, from the Werribee River in the north-west, down to Wilson's Promontory in the south-east, including the Mornington Peninsula, French Island and Phillip Island, plus Western Port. We wish to acknowledge the Boon Wurrung as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Bunjil the Creator Spirit of this beautiful land, who travels as an eagle, and Waarn, who protects the waterways and travels as a crow, and thank them for continuing to watch over this Country today and beyond.
Larkin Cove Location Map
Latitude: 39° 2.746′ S (39.04577° S / 39° 2′ 44.77″ S)
Longitude: 146° 28.414′ E (146.47356° E / 146° 28′ 24.82″ E)
Datum: WGS84 |
Google Map
Added: 2022-04-22 19:20:07 GMT, Last updated: 2022-04-22 20:50:14 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Brown Head Pinnacle, 508 m, bearing 52°, NE
Wilsons Promontory Marine Reserve.
Depth: 2 to 25 m.
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DISCLAIMER: No claim is made by The Scuba Doctor as to the accuracy of the dive site coordinates listed here. Should anyone decide to use these GPS marks to locate and dive on a site, they do so entirely at their own risk. Always verify against other sources.
The marks come from numerous sources including commercial operators, independent dive clubs, reference works, and active divers. Some are known to be accurate, while others may not be. Some GPS marks may even have come from maps using the AGD66 datum, and thus may need be converted to the WGS84 datum. To distinguish between the possible accuracy of the dive site marks, we've tried to give each mark a source of GPS, Google Earth, or unknown.
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