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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.
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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.
Water Tower, Port Fairy
Reef Dive | Boat access
Depth: 5 m (16 ft) to 15 m (49 ft)
Level: Open Water and beyond.
Water Tower, Port Fairy is a boat diving site, which lies about 2.5 kilometres west of Port Fairy, on Victoria's Discovery Coast. It's a good location to get a taste of the boulder shore and reef complexes found between Port Fairy to the east and The Crags to the west.
Diving at Water Tower, Port Fairy
Water Tower, Port Fairy lies offshore from Wannon Water's Port Fairy water tower built in 1975, west of Port Fairy. The depth at Water Tower ranges from 5 to 15 metres and the site features plenty of interesting habitat for the usual inhabitants. Take your catch bag if you're hunting Black-lipped Abalone or Southern Rock Lobster (aka Crayfish).
Location: Port Fairy, Victoria 3284
Ideal Conditions: This boat dive site is prone to surge and swell and is best dived in very good conditions with a low swell with light offshore north-westerly to north-easterly winds. See WillyWeather (Pea Soup Beach) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.
Boat Launching: Water Tower, Port Fairy is reached by boat heading out from the Port Fairy, Griffiths Street Boat Ramp.
{{southern-ocean-warning}}Divers have the opportunity to catch Abalone at this dive site. Remember your catch bag, legal abalone tool, current Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence, and abalone measure. Please abide by all current fishing regulations if you intend to catch abalone.
See article-catching-abalone for practical abalone hunting advice from The Scuba Doctor, plus melbourne-abalone-dives for a list of other Abalone dive sites near Melbourne.
Divers have the opportunity to catch Southern Rock Lobster (aka Crayfish) at this dive site. Remember your catch bag, current Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence, rock lobster measure, and cray tags. Once you get back to the dive boat, or shore, make sure you clip the tail and tag your Crayfish as per Fisheries requirements. Please abide by all current fishing regulations if you intend to catch crays. See article-catching-crayfish for practical cray hunting advice from The Scuba Doctor, plus melbourne-cray-dives for a list of other crayfish dive sites near Melbourne. For tips on cooking your Crays, please see article-cooking-crayfish.
Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Eastern Maar people of south-western Victoria between the Shaw and Eumerella Rivers and from Yambuk in the south to beyond Lake Linlithgow in the north. This truly ancient Country extends as far north as Ararat and encompasses the coastal townships of Port Fairy in the west, Warrnambool, Peterborough, Port Campbell, Apollo Bay, Lorne, and Airies Inlet in the east, including the Great Ocean Road area. It also stretches 100 metres out to sea from low tide and therefore includes the iconic Twelve Apostles. "Eastern Maar" is a name adopted by the people who identify as Maar, Eastern Gunditjmara, Tjap Wurrung, Peek Whurrong, Kirrae Whurrung, Kuurn Kopan Noot and/or Yarro waetch (Tooram Tribe) amongst others. We wish to acknowledge the Eastern Maar as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Water Tower, Port Fairy Location Map
Latitude: 38° 23.707′ S (38.395113° S / 38° 23′ 42.41″ S)
Longitude: 142° 12.714′ E (142.211906° E / 142° 12′ 42.86″ E)
Datum: WGS84 |
Google Map
Added: 2022-05-20 07:58:04 GMT, Last updated: 2022-05-24 18:50:53 GMT
Source: GPS
Nearest Neighbour: Ocean Drive, Port Fairy, 816 m, bearing 64°, ENE
Port Fairy, Discovery Coast.
Depth: 5 to 15 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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