Dives per Year	Type of Dives (reef or wreck)	Buddies
Type of Dives (shore or boat)	Depth of Dives	Dives Per Month
Dive Locations	Sydney Reef	Sydney Wreck Dives
Interstate and Overseas Dive Trips

DIVES PER YEAR - Click on the year to see dives for that year in PDF format

Year	Number of dives	Year	Number of dives	Year	Number of dives	Year	Number of dives	Year	Number of dives
1988	14	1997	148	2006	194	2015	85@@	2024	172
1989	122	1998	95**	2007	192	2016	124	2025	see above
1990	141	1999	131	2008	142##	2017	73@@
1991	139	2000	136***	2009	161	2018	105
1992	134	2001	163	2010	144****	2019	106
1993	133	2002	138	2011	160	2020	136
1994	101*	2003	109****	2012	169	2021	110###
1995	119	2004	131#	2013	138	2022	111####
1996	116	2005	174	2014	174	2023	206
								TOTAL	5,102
						Total hours underwater:			4,299:02

Notes:

* I travelled to the UK and Ireland for a month
** I did not dive for almost 3 months due to ear damage
*** I travelled to Cape York for 5 weeks
**** I travelled to Central Australia for 5 weeks
# I did not dive for 6 weeks after becoming sick while diving
## Low number due to moving to new house
### Went to outback Queensland and South Australia for 13 weeks during Covid
#### Terrible weather for most of the year and no diving for 2 months due to hurt ear
@@ Went sailing to North Queensland for 6 months

Month	Number of dives	Month	Number of dives
January	4851	July	2864
February	404	August	3424
March	4372	September	408
April	4502	October	5455
May	454	November	4735
June	4223	December	396

Notes:

1. High number due to having a week's holiday at this time of year.
   
2. High number due to Easter Dive Weekends.
   
3. High number due to June Long Weekend and some years a week's dive holiday.
   
4. Low number due to Trips to UK and Ireland during these months, a trip to Cape York, two trips to Central Australia, recovery from an operation, some skiing holidays and general colder weather.
   
5. High number due to traditionally taking overseas diving holidays during these months.
   

TYPES OF DIVE (Reef or Wreck)

Type	Number of dives Note: Some are multi type
Reef	4,309
Wreck	769
Lake/Quarry	3
Plane	26
Cave	4

TYPE OF DIVES (Shore or Boat)

Type	Number of dives
Boat	3,031
Shore	2,070
Night	471

DEPTH OF DIVES

Depth	Number of dives
>30 metres	1,056
>40 metres	500
>50 metres	121
>60 metres	26

DIVE LOCATIONS

Location	Number of dives
Sydney	3,293
Indonesia	204
South West Rocks	164
Queensland	147
Solitary Islands	132
Jervis Bay	132
Vanuatu	122
Philippines	109
Port Stephens/Nelson Bay	104
Chuuk Lagoon	98
Papua New Guinea	71
Shellharbour	71
Solomon Islands	63
Eden/Merimbula	42
Central Coast	37
Batemans Bay	31
New Zealand	29
Wollongong	29
Ulladulla	26
Tasmania	23
Norway	19
Forster	18
South Australia	18
United Kingdom	16
Byron Bay	14
Seal Rocks	10
Lord Howe Island	10
Rarotonga, Cook Islands	10
New Caledonia	8
Western Australia	5
Brazil	2

SYDNEY REEF DIVES

Sydney Reef Dives	Number of dives
Sydney Reef Total	2,880
Bare Island	692
Shiprock	275
The Split	192
Barrens Hut	187
Middle Ground	169
Pizza Reef	167
Inscription Point	160
Oak Park	75
Six Fathom Reef	69
The Leap	55
Henry Head	53
Marley Point	49
Shark Point	49
Camp Cove	46
The Monuments	46
Osborne Shoals	42
Lilli Pilli	32
The Balcony	31
M & K Reef	25
Clifton Gardens	24
Magic Point Sharks	22
Parsley Bay	22
Bypass Reef	21
Thompsons/Gordons Bay	20
Mahon Pool	17
North Bondi	15
Voodoo	13
Little Bay	13
South Maroubra	13
Tumbledown	12

SYDNEY WRECK DIVES

Sydney Wreck Dives	Number of dives
Sydney Wreck Total	379
SS Tuggerah	147
SS Undola	45
SS Myola	27
SS Kelloe	25
SS Hilda	24
SS Annie M. Miller	23
MV Malabar	21
SS Birchgrove Park	11
Coolooli	9
SS Currajong	7
Valiant	6
SS Dee Why	6
SS Royal Shepherd	5
Meggol	3
Himma	3
Centurion	2

MY BUDDIES

NOTE:I have done 172 solo dives

Diver	Dives	Diver	Dives	Diver	Dives
Kelly McFadyen	1,067			Therese Duncan	19
Eddy Labour	349			Ross Mackay	19
Ron Walsh	302	Carole Harris	46	Mark Simpson	19
John McPherson	294	Mike Scotland	45	Nick Windle	18
Andreas Thimm	268			Dave Casburn	18
Les Caterson	208			Colette Wasson	17
Donna Cassidy-Walsh	177	Gary Perkins	43	Jo Edney	17
Ian Gowan	154	John Conolly	43	Kristin Johnson	17
Kim Dinh	143			Shaun Reynolds	16
Heinz Bendinger	134	Peter Trayhurn	41	Stacey Bryce	16
Daryl Gibbs	118				18
Eddie Ivers	93	Bram Harris	39
John Fowden	79	Leon Betts	38	John Gordon	16
John Beddie	72	Bob Trudgeon	33
Gwen Corbett	72	Leo Bergagnin	32	Dick Fish	18
Gary Dunnett	72	Simon Hoad	32	Ross McCulloch	16
		Geoff Ward	32	Paul Pacey	17
Adam Florence	67	Ken Ridley	30	Zorka Jakupec	15
Stephen McFadyen	63	Tim Rigg	29	Chris Connell	15
		Robyn Hewitt	28	Mark Ranft	14
Eda di Camillio	63	Keith Edwards	28	Reka Spillano	14
Tamara Fleet	55			Ahmad Omran	14
John Prior	54	Phil Rose	27	Jodi Watchorn	14
Phil Short	52	Brian Bennett	26	Shaun Hampton	14
Kyle Hendry	51	Michael Wright	24	John Black	13
Peter Flockart	49	Riki Virc	22	Garry Rowe	13
Mandy Durand	48	Robbie Mapstone	22
Jason Coombs	46	Gail McFadyen	22	Steve Shaw	12
Sheila Baldock	46	Carol Martin	22
Le Hammer	45	Paul Wildish	21	Brian Clark	11
Dave Burns	45	Joel Santiago	21	Russell Stoker	11
		Vicki Swinnerton	20	Glenn Townsend	11
		Terry Bartlett	19	Rhonda Kay	11

INTERSTATE AND OVERSEAS DIVE TRIPS

Date	Country/State of Oz	Location
August 1988	French Polynesia	Moorea
June 1989	Queensland	Heron Island
October 1989	Queensland	Heron Island
September/October 1991	Vanuatu	Port Vila and Santo
November 1991	Federated States of Micronesia	Chuuk
November 1991	Palau	Palau
April 1992	New Zealand	Poor Knights
August 1992	Solomon Islands	Honiara
October 1993	New Caledonia	Isle of Pines, Noumea and North Grande Terre
February 1994	Federated States of Micronesia	Chuuk
February 1995	Papua New Guinea	Madang and Tufi
August 1995	Ireland	Tralee
September 1995	Vanuatu	Port Vila and Santo
October 1996	Papua New Guinea	Madang
March 1997	Philippines	Coron, Cebu and Bohol
November 1997	Federated States of Micronesia	Chuuk
March 1998	Australia	Northern Territory - Darwin
June 1998	Australia	Western Australia - Perth and Dunsborough
October 1998	Vanuatu	Santo
September 1999	Vanuatu	Santo
October 2000	Norway	Runde Island
October 2001	Solomon Islands	Gizo and Tulaghi
October 2002	Vanuatu	Santo
February 2003	South Australia	Fleurieu Peninsula
November 2003	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby
September 2004	Federated States of Micronesia	Chuuk
February 2005	Melbourne, Victoria	Portsea
June 2005	Cook Islands	Rarotonga
September 2005	Federated States of Micronesia	Chuuk
November 2006	Queensland	Osprey Reef and Ribbon Reefs
December 2006	Queensland	Gold Coast
May/June 2007	Vanuatu	Port Vila and Santo
October 2007	Queensland	Osprey Reef and Ribbon Reefs
February 2008	Tasmania	Rocky Cape, Hobart, Eaglehawk Neck, Bicheno and other locations
September 2008	Papua New Guinea	Rabaul and Kavieng
February/March 2009	Tasmania	Eaglehawk Neck, Bicheno
September 2009	Solomon Islands	Tulaghi and Honiara
May 2010	Vanuatu	Port Vila
March 2011	New Zealand	Poor Knights and Bay of Islands
October/November 2011	Federated States of Micronesia	Chuuk
November 2011	USA	Guam
February 2012	USA	Alabama
September 2012	Indonesia	Bali (Tulamben) and Komodo
August 2013	Scotland	Scapa Flow
August 2013	England	Swanage wrecks
August 2014	Indonesia	Bali (Tulamben)
November 2014	Queensland	Townsville (SS Yongala and GBR)
July to September 2015	Queensland	Great Barrier Reef (on my yacht) and SS Yongala
November 2016	Queensland	Cape York area
May to September 2017 (on my yacht)	Queensland	Great Barrier Reef
December 2018	South America	Arraial do Cabo near Rio de Janerio in Brazil
March 2020	Philippines	Ticao Island
April 2022	South Australia	Great White Sharks - Port Lincoln
May 2022	NSW	Lord Howe Island
April/May 2023	Indonesia	Tulamben
August/September 2023	Philippines	Anilao and Puerto Galera
April/May 2024	Indonesia	Tulamben/Amed
October 2024	Philippines	Dumaguete
April 2025	Melbourne, Victoria	Various
May/June 2025	Indonesia	Tulamben
October 2025	Philippines	Anilao
May/June 2026	Indonesia	Tulamben - booked
November 2026	Maldives	Possible
July 2027	Egypt	Red Sea?

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