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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
1988	14	1997	148	2006	194	2015	85@@
1989	122	1998	95**	2007	192	2016	124
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	see above
1996	116	2005	174	2014	174
						TOTAL	4,457
				Total hours underwater:			3,563:31

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 sailing to North Queensland for 6 months

Month	Number of dives	Month	Number of dives
January	4291	July	2654
February	348	August	3124
March	391	September	351
April	3952	October	4735
May	334	November	4385
June	3603	December	355

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	3,679
Wreck	748
Lake/Quarry	3
Plane	26
Cave	4

TYPE OF DIVES (Shore or Boat)

Type	Number of dives
Boat	2,783
Shore	1,671
Night	467

DEPTH OF DIVES

Depth	Number of dives
>30 metres	1,011
>40 metres	496
>50 metres	121
>60 metres	26

DIVE LOCATIONS

Location	Number of dives
Sydney	2,944
South West Rocks	164
Queensland	147
Jervis Bay	128
Vanuatu	122
Solitary Islands	112
Chuuk Lagoon	98
Port Stephens/Nelson Bay	87
Indonesia	74
Papua New Guinea	71
Solomon Islands	61
Shellharbour	61
Eden/Merimbula	42
Central Coast	37
New Zealand	29
Wollongong	29
Philippines	27
Ulladulla	26
Batemans Bay	25
Tasmania	23
Norway	19
Forster	18
United Kingdom	16
Byron Bay	14
Seal Rocks	10
Rarotonga, Cook Islands	10
New Caledonia	8
Fleurieu Peninsula South Australia	5
Western Australia	5
Brazil	2

SYDNEY REEF DIVES

Sydney Reef Dives	Number of dives
Sydney Reef Total	2,567
Bare Island	571
Shiprock	261
The Split	179
Barrens Hut	175
Pizza Reef	153
Middle Ground	150
Inscription Point	88
Oak Park	75
Six Fathom Reef	69
The Leap	48
Shark Point	47
Camp Cove	46
Marley Point	46
Osborne Shoals	41
Henry Head	39
The Monuments	35
Lilli Pilli	30
The Balcony	29
Thompsons Bay	20
Parsley Bay	20
Magic Point Sharks	20
Bypass Reef	19
Clifton Gardens	19
M & K Reef	18
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	376
SS Tuggerah	145
SS Undola	45
SS Myola	27
SS Kelloe	25
SS Hilda	23
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 158 solo dives

Diver	Dives	Diver	Dives	Diver	Dives
Kelly McFadyen	1,051	Donna Cassidy	47	Ross Mackay	19
Eddy Labour	349	John Prior	47	Tim Rigg	18
Andreas Thimm	268	Le Hammer	46	Dave Casburn	19
Les Caterson	208	Mike Scotland	43	Nick Windle	18
Ian Gowan	151	John Conolly	43	Kristin Johnson	17
Ron Walsh	141	Jason Coombs	42	Colette Wasson	17
Heinz Bendinger	134	Gary Perkins	42	Jo Edney	17
Daryl Gibbs	118			John Gordon	16
Kim Dinh	109	Peter Trayhurn	41	Shaun Reynolds	16
Eddie Ivers	82	Bram Harris	33	Stacey Bryce	16
John Fowden	79	Leo Bergagnin	32	Mark Simpson	18
Gwen Corbett	73
John Beddie	72	Ken Ridley	30	Bob Trudgeon	19
		Simon Hoad	30	Dick Fish	17
Gary Dunnett	72	Keith Edwards	28	Paul Pacey	17
		Robyn Hewitt	28	Chris Connell	15
Adam Florence	67	Phil Rose	27	Zorka Jakupec	14
		Brian Bennett	26
Stephen McFadyen	63	Michael Wright	24	Mark Ranft	14
		Carole Harris	23
		Leon Betts	23
Eda di Camillio	60	Geoff Ward	23	Jodi Watchorn	14
John McPherson	59	Gail McFadyen	22	Shaun Hampton	14
Tamara Fleet	55	Carol Martin	22	John Black	13
Donna Cassidy	51	Riki Virc	22	Rhonda Kay	11
Phil Short	51	Robbie Mapstone	22	Brian Clark	11
Peter Flockart	48	Wildish	21	Steve Shaw	11
Sheila Baldock	46	Bob Trudgeon	20
Dave Burns	45	Terry Bartlett	19	Russell Stoker	11
		Therese Duncan	19	Glenn Townsend	11

INTERSTATE AND OVERSEAS DIVE TRIPS

Date	Country/State of Oz	Location
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

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