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Wrecks, wrecks, wrecks!!!
I have recently developed an addiction to diving wrecks. This addiction developed soon after purchasing a Shark Shield which I have conviced myself makes me immune to sharks much like our crims think a bit of muti will make them bulletproof :blackeye.
Anyway, I need some suggestions for wrecks around Cape Town that are accessible from shore and that are worth the trouble. So far, I've done the ones around Simon's Town and Glencairn: The Clan Stuart, the Bato, Drie Gebroeders and the Katwyk Aan Ryhn. The Clan Stuart has been the best so far with tons of fish and other sea life and even a small swim-through.
I could do with some suggestions please!
I have recently developed an addiction to diving wrecks. This addiction developed soon after purchasing a Shark Shield which I have conviced myself makes me immune to sharks much like our crims think a bit of muti will make them bulletproof :blackeye.
Anyway, I need some suggestions for wrecks around Cape Town that are accessible from shore and that are worth the trouble. So far, I've done the ones around Simon's Town and Glencairn: The Clan Stuart, the Bato, Drie Gebroeders and the Katwyk Aan Ryhn. The Clan Stuart has been the best so far with tons of fish and other sea life and even a small swim-through.
I could do with some suggestions please!
Went to melkbos for a dive on saturday and got my kreef, was a lil dirty but flat, so managed to get to some reefs we usually cant. sunday afternoon, went back and swam straight to that same reef, got 8 and buddy got 4...all between 800 grams and 1.2kgs..also were some kob around and afew hotties...didnt take my gun in tho 
was alot cleaner sunday than saturday
lenny u manage to catch a dive dude?
was alot cleaner sunday than saturday lenny u manage to catch a dive dude?
Knysna this wkend....never dived there but theres a champion divers in sedgefield that i can prolly phone for dive spots etc...
anyone here have any experience in that area?
anyone here have any experience in that area?
Hi Capetownguy
I think the Champion Divers near Sedgefield is closed. Their sign is no longer there this year.
I have been in Knysna for a couple of weeks already, and will be here for another 10 days. I come here every year on holiday. Been some decent cracker and leeries around here when the swell drops enough to get in.
Email me on kevd333@yahoo.com and I will give you whatever advise on spots that I can.
Regards
Kevin
I think the Champion Divers near Sedgefield is closed. Their sign is no longer there this year.
I have been in Knysna for a couple of weeks already, and will be here for another 10 days. I come here every year on holiday. Been some decent cracker and leeries around here when the swell drops enough to get in.
Email me on kevd333@yahoo.com and I will give you whatever advise on spots that I can.
Regards
Kevin
Hey Greg
Yeah I went for a quick dive on saturday and got my quota in about 10 mins.
Thanks John for the call and the sms, sorry i could not reply i had run out of airtime at just the opportune time:head. I would have love to have joined you on the clan stuart dive, unfortunately I had already commited myself to taking some friends out on the duck to catch some kreef. Which turned out to be a very bad discision.
1) it took them 2hrs to get ready, when we got to the beach they naffed around while I inflated the boat, baited rings and generally got the boat in the water. We caught four kreef , just before 4 we started making our way back to the beach, but the tide had since dropped which made landing a nightmare, we had to carry the boat over 100m of rock, and as we got to the car, a inspector stopped us, confiscated my kreef and gave me a R2000 fine (R500 for each cray)! for "landing our catch" 15mins past 4pm!@:rcard @#$%!
... But how was your dive?
Yeah I went for a quick dive on saturday and got my quota in about 10 mins.
Thanks John for the call and the sms, sorry i could not reply i had run out of airtime at just the opportune time:head. I would have love to have joined you on the clan stuart dive, unfortunately I had already commited myself to taking some friends out on the duck to catch some kreef. Which turned out to be a very bad discision.
1) it took them 2hrs to get ready, when we got to the beach they naffed around while I inflated the boat, baited rings and generally got the boat in the water. We caught four kreef , just before 4 we started making our way back to the beach, but the tide had since dropped which made landing a nightmare, we had to carry the boat over 100m of rock, and as we got to the car, a inspector stopped us, confiscated my kreef and gave me a R2000 fine (R500 for each cray)! for "landing our catch" 15mins past 4pm!@:rcard @#$%!
... But how was your dive?
WHAT!!???!??!??!! That's ridiculous!!! Sorry to hear that Lenny.
The viz at the Clan Stuart was perfect on Sunday and once again it was teeming with fish and other creatures of the not so deep. The water was absolutely freezing though. There were 2 other guys who paddled out to the wreck in their kayak, hopped into the water and immediatley hopped back in their kayak to go back and fetch their hoodies.
I'm planning on spending Friday at Smit's, so you are welcome to join us, but I'm guessing it is going to be a busy weekend for you.
I was also at Scuba Shack and Pisces today enquiring about trips out to the navy wrecks. They are apparently between 30 to 35 meters and on a nice calm day suitable for freediving (hint, hint, nudge, nudge Hanli).
The viz at the Clan Stuart was perfect on Sunday and once again it was teeming with fish and other creatures of the not so deep. The water was absolutely freezing though. There were 2 other guys who paddled out to the wreck in their kayak, hopped into the water and immediatley hopped back in their kayak to go back and fetch their hoodies.
I'm planning on spending Friday at Smit's, so you are welcome to join us, but I'm guessing it is going to be a busy weekend for you.
I was also at Scuba Shack and Pisces today enquiring about trips out to the navy wrecks. They are apparently between 30 to 35 meters and on a nice calm day suitable for freediving (hint, hint, nudge, nudge Hanli).
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Wow, as I said I really should have just gone with you. The water looked so nice in false bay! and it would of been a heck of alot cheaper!
Ridiculous?- This sad reality about our judicial system is that it would be cheaper to kill the inspector than to be caught with 4 kreef 15mins after 4pm. A real life example: My niece was repeatedly sexually molested over a period of three years. The guy got off with a R500 bail!
Ridiculous?- This sad reality about our judicial system is that it would be cheaper to kill the inspector than to be caught with 4 kreef 15mins after 4pm. A real life example: My niece was repeatedly sexually molested over a period of three years. The guy got off with a R500 bail!
ANC official bust with abalone: South Africa: News: News24
He will probably get off without paying a cent.
What are the rules regarding 'landing your catch'? Do you have to be out of the water before 4 or at your car?
He will probably get off without paying a cent.
What are the rules regarding 'landing your catch'? Do you have to be out of the water before 4 or at your car?
I think Champion Divers is still open. Try calling Neels on 072 287 2475. The shop number is 044 343 3118.
Shot for all the help guys...much appreciated
Will drop you an email Kevind..thx!
Lenny dude! nooit man sommer put me on a kak plak for the day hey.....did they at least let u take your kreef home also got out the water at 4pm on sunday....as i was getting out another dude was getting in for a kreef dive...his second for the day...no inspectors around tho..
Any hassle with u being the skipper of a boat with no permit?
Will drop you an email Kevind..thx!
Lenny dude! nooit man
sommer put me on a kak plak for the day hey.....did they at least let u take your kreef home also got out the water at 4pm on sunday....as i was getting out another dude was getting in for a kreef dive...his second for the day...no inspectors around tho..Any hassle with u being the skipper of a boat with no permit?
Lenny that blows the biggest donkey balls ever!
X yeti , apparently the Aster in Houtbay is an awesome freediving spot when conditions are good, sitting at 30-some meters. I think Vulcan rock might be good as well on the right day, had an awesome scuba there before, but we must def. make a mission to the Boss400 - around the front it drops to about 25, nice and protected, with kiff swim throughs of a sunken container etc. I think you can even walk there, have seen guys walking down a path close by but not sure how to get to it. Then there's always the Maori
X yeti , apparently the Aster in Houtbay is an awesome freediving spot when conditions are good, sitting at 30-some meters. I think Vulcan rock might be good as well on the right day, had an awesome scuba there before, but we must def. make a mission to the Boss400 - around the front it drops to about 25, nice and protected, with kiff swim throughs of a sunken container etc. I think you can even walk there, have seen guys walking down a path close by but not sure how to get to it. Then there's always the Maori
CPT - Nope confiscated them as "evidence", which means they will just lie and rot in some MCM storeroom. And no the MCM has nothing to do with boat regulations.
Yeti - one has to have your catch on dry land before sunset which they stipulate is 4pm (which is the earliest sunset i have ever seen!)
Yeti - one has to have your catch on dry land before sunset which they stipulate is 4pm (which is the earliest sunset i have ever seen!)
so they took live kreef from you.....and let them die so they could prosecute you for 15 mins
Yup. They don't really give damn about conservation. It's all about money. It's the story of every government department.
In fact If they really cared about conservation they would increase the kreef bag limits and lengthen the season! I have it on fairly good authority that scientists and marine biologists have been warning the MCM for years about the crayfish stocks explodeing in areas like betty's bay, soetwater etc, the results being that abalone, mussels, sea urchins, etc are being almost wiped out completely in those areas! And yet the recreational season keeps getting shorter because supposedly the kreef stock is dangerously low. But what they don't tell you, is that this year, as well as shortening the recreational season they actually extened the commercial season! So much for "dangerously low levels of stock". And then they have the cheek to tell the media, that the kreef stocks are suffering as a result of recreational fishing!!!!!
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