Twenty meter visibility, Yellow-headed hulafish in the tens of thousands and a rare Western Blue Devil (Paraplesiops sinclairi) are but a few of the delights encountered by a team of RLS divers on a trip to survey the Geographe Marine Park earlier this month.
Despite a serious low-pressure system building off the west coast of Tasmania, promising gale force winds and torrential rain, a crew of dedicated divers headed up to Tassie’s rugged north-west coast for the annual RLS Rocky Cape training and survey weekend.
This February, a group of keen marine scientists & RLS divers descended on Las Cruces, Chile in the hopes of expanding the RLS network into South America and establishing core survey sites along the west coast.
In February, a group of Parks Victoria and Reef Life Survey divers descended on Port Phillip Heads, Victoria to complete a tenth year of marine biodiversity monitoring.
At the height of cyclone season, a group of dedicated and, some may argue, utterly mad RLS divers headed out on Eviota for a month-long expedition to survey the remote reefs of Australia's North-west shelf.
