Following a year of bad weather luck, it was starting to look like the SA RLS team was cursed. Fortunately in March their luck changed, allowing a team of new and old RLS divers to head out for an intensive training and survey trip in South Australia's Encounter Marine Park and the Adelaide Mount Lofty Region.
This March, a group of RLS Sydneyites took advantage of the unusually warm water temperatures and 20-meter visibility to survey sites around Australia’s largest city, recording an amazing diversity and abundance of fishes and invertebrates.
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.
