We finally made it to Victoria!! The long-awaited Victorian RLS training trip was finally made possible thanks to James Chong and CoastCare Victoria. The team did an amazing job and the weekend was a great success! To the new recruits, welcome to the RLS family!
Despite the weather, Lord Howe Island was a great success! Completing 105 surveys from 35 sites which included over 250 species of fish (including cryptics) and over 100 different species of macro, mobile invertebrates!! A HUGE effort by all the team!
The South Australian RLS team enjoyed four big days of survey diving on the Fleurieu Peninsula, in Kaurna waters, South Australia. Over an extended weekend in February, we surveyed 32 transects at 8 long-term monitoring sites, within the Encounter Marine Park Region. Much of the data collected on these trips is used to inform management of South Australia’s marine parks and sanctuaries, including Rapid Head Sanctuary Zone and Aldinga Reef Sanctuary zone.
New species ID tool, "Ichthy-what" developed by RLS diver, Yanir Seroussi is ready for testing!
It was our biggest RLS trip to Jervis Bay yet but with a forecast of 20 kn winds and 2m swell... it looked like it was going to be a disaster of a weekend.
First dive to kick off the weekend... the water was a beautiful 23 degrees and 15-20 m viz! We laughed through our regs in relief and no measure of wonder at how fantastic the conditions were.
John Turnbull wrote about their incredibly successful weekend full of surveys and training at Jervis Bay, NSW.
