Note: Please ensure that you fulfil the requirements outlined below before you sign up.

Hi Divers,

We’re heading out for two epic dives at Flat Rock, off Point Lookout on North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah)!

Flat Rock offers some incredible underwater landscapes, including sites like Turtle Cave and Shark Alley. Flat Rock is a stunning dive destination year-round with a lot of marine life, including eagle rays, turtles, groupers, large schools of tropical and sub-tropical fish, and nudibranchs. However, winter is the perfect time to encounter the majestic grey nurse sharks as they gather in these waters. And if we’re lucky, we might even spot a few humpback whales on our way out!

This trip is for experienced divers, as some of the sites at Flat Rock reach up to 28-30 meters in depth. 

Each diver must:

• Be a current Unidive member, medically fit to dive, who passed the Swim Test Certificate
• Have dived in the last 6 months
• Have an Advanced (or equivalent) dive certification from a recognised agency
• Dive within their certification and capability
• Ensure that they have all required dive gear, and are familiar with all aspects of it
• Have a minimum of 25 dives at 10 different dive sites
• Have a suitable "deep" certification from a recognised agency, if diving deeper than 30 m
• Have proven experience diving in moderate current from a moored boat (i.e. not drift diving with a live boat that picks you up)
• Have proven ability to navigate an unfamiliar site and return to the anchor or mooring
• Dive with a DSMB, cutting device and whistle
  Note: These items are NOT supplied
  Note: A DSMB is different to a "safety sausage", and you need to have proven ability to deploy a DSMB from your safety stop, i.e. 5 m below the surface
  
• Bring their own mask, snorkel, and fins
  If you need to hire other equipment such as BCD, reg, wetsuit, it is your responsibility to hire these before the trip (typically at the Unidive shed on Thursday night before the trip). There will be no time to sort out gear hire on the day of the trip.
  There's no need to hire tanks and weights, as these are included in the trip and will be loaded from the shed on the day.
  
• Follow instructions given by the Boat Handlers, Dive Supervisor, and other people in charge (such as the commercial operator)
• Help out throughout the whole day
• Notify the Trip Organiser asap of any changes to their personal circumstances as declared in the event registration form
• Attend the trip meeting (usually on the Thursday beforehand at 6:30 pm at the UniDive shed)

If you have any questions about the trip, please email the Trip Organiser, or dive@unidive.org.