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Description |
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Port Phillip Heads
Web Cams |
Victorian Channels Authority.
Real time cameras located at Point Lonsdale Lighthouse showing sea conditions in Bass Strait and at Port Phillip Heads. |
Port Phillip Heads
Tidal Predictions |
National Tidal Facility Australia.
Times of High Tide, Low Tide and Slack Water at Port Phillip Heads. |
Port Phillip Bay
Weather Forecast |
Bureau of Meteorology - Port Phillip Bay Forecast.
We use this forecast as a guide to making a decision about suitability to launch
Red October into Port Phillip Bay. Read in conjunction with Bass Strait forecast. |
Bass Strait
Weather Forecast |
Bureau of Meteorology - Bass Strait Forecast.
We use the Northern Bass Strait forecast as a guide to making a decision if we should take
Red October into Bass Strait.
We don't go diving in Bass Strait if any of the following conditions are likely to occur within a 24 hour period:
- A Strong Wind Warning (or above - Gale, Storm, Hurricane) has been issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for Port Phillip Bay and/or Northern Bass Strait;
- Wind strength exceeding 20 knots from the direction: NW, NNW, N, W, NE, NNE;
- Wind strength exceeding 15 knots from the direction: SW, SSW, S;
- Wind strength exceeding 10 knots from the direction: SE, SSE, E;
- Swell Height exceeding 2 metres;
- Any swell exceeding 1 metre with a period less than 5 seconds;
- A weather change is due which may cause any of the above conditions to occur.
Disclaimer: If you intend to go diving and/or boating in Bass Strait, you should analyze the
weather forecasts and make your own mind up about what you consider to be 'safe' conditions.
We accept no responsibilty or liability for the accidental or intentional misuse of information
protrayed, or misadventure resulting from its use. |
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Description |
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| AIMA |
Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology.
Hosts the National Shipwrecks Database and home to lots of information about shipwrecks in
Australian Waters. |
| MAAV |
Maritime Archeological Association of Victoria.
A dedicated group of marine archeologists who survey shipwreck sites and have a
keen interest in the Victorian Ships' Graveyard. |
| Scuttled Shipwrecks |
Scuttled and Abanonded Ships in Australian Waters.
A compiled list of all abandoned ships in Australia waters, but not all Victorian Graveyard wrecks are listed.
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