Boat Harbour, East of Longnose Point, N side of the Bay, Jervis Bay, Australia

• Iain Hosking
• Andrew Kennedy

Boat Harbour is just NW of the Docks, on the N. side of the Bay. Four of us dropped in (the other two being Dave and Amanda) descended to sand at 17m. Followed a compass course W. to the reef and turned left. We covered a fair distance, and saw plenty that was different to the daytime: a cuttlefish, bright red with annoyance at being disturbed; a weedy sea dragon; sea anemones feeding; brittle stars; a large (6") mollusc moving along the sand with its siphon out on front; a moray eel out and about; fish tucked in every crevice, resting, and spectacular phosphorescence. Andrew and I turned our torches off for the last few minutes and just played at making waves of sparks. Surfaced to a long swim back to the boat. The Aladin says I am stuffed full of nitrogen (residual nitrogen time 16 hours; no fly time 6 hours). The last time I did 4 dives in a day was the 6th August 1980 - that was the 'Islay', 12m/45 mins, the 'Harald', 10m/12 mins, the Mull of Oa, 6m/10 mins and the 'Limelight', 8m/10 mins. This day has definitely been more provocative, decompression-wise.

Damp suit really.

See logbook 9