Winter Diving is Great!

We’re really excited – winter seems to have arrived and that means we can look forward to diving in Simon’s Town again.

Simon’s Town has a great variety of dive types – from the wrecks of Smitswinkel Bay; beautiful reefs such as Partridge Point, Outer Castle and Batsata Maze; the kelp forests of A-Frame and Castle Rock to diving with Sevengill Cow Sharks at Pyramid Rock.

When I (Kate) learned to dive, it was winter and my first wetsuit was a Zero Rhino Hide number. I just needed a speargun and I would have looked like one of those Bond girls from the 1960s!

Although I don’t use it anymore, I remember my wetsuit with great fondness – I was always warm on a dive. In hindsight, I'm not sure this was because of its fantastic insulating capabilities, but probably more because of the excitement of finally exploring the ocean’s treasures!

Once under water, water temperature or getting cold did not occur to me! I was far too busy concentrating on getting my buoyancy right, watching where my buddy was and thinking random thoughts to myself such as “is that same fish still following me around?”; “what on earth i
s THAT funny brown and yellow feathery thing” and “this is far more exciting than I ever imagined!”

Don’t let the fact that it is winter put you off learning to dive. Winter diving is some of the best in the Cape and not as cold as you imagine!

What’s more - our Pool Sessions are held in a heated indoor pool and the wetsuits we lend our students for their Scuba Diver courses are all in excellent condition and really nice and warm!

PS My old faithful Rhino Hide wetsuit has been hanging in the cupboard all these years. I tried to put it on the other day, but it is true what they say – your wetsuit does shrink if you stop wearing it!

 
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