Understanding Weather

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MatthewR added 2010-01-03

Hi Glenn,diving conditions don't always depend on weather conditions.One of the things I have learnt over the years is that you can have reasonably bad conditions on the surface but the conditions underneath are extremly good.For instance depth, swell,surge and current usually play the biggest part in visibility and stability underwater.These conditions can persist for quite a while after bad weather.One dive I had on the Snake Pit off Gladstone, had four metre swells rolling over it,but the conditions were superb below.Another dive off Noosa on Sunshine reef, which nobody except me and my buddy got in the water,had surge a good 25 metres long only because the depth was shallow and the trough in the swell was huge. Great dive by the way couldn't see a dame thing but playing in the surge was fantastic.The dive we did out of Rochampton on the Bomber was straight after flooding the rivers were pumping out dirty water for miles off the coast, but when we got in the water, there was a wall of suspended dirty water where it met the clean ocean water. Quite spectacular never seen anything like it before.So what I am trying to say is that there is a lot of things to take into consideration but dive if you can not only for the experience but because these dives produce things you may never see during normal conditions.Hope this helps a little. Matthew.

DamonA added 2012-03-25

The most basic thing is sunlight makes better colour underwater, so look for a sunny day. Moon phase, for tidal springs and neaps- very important for dive plans depending on the site. Synoptic charts- low pressure is bad for storms, high is good. Wind, less is better for viz. Damon

BorisR added 2017-07-27

Here some tips! Read it clearly. And you found zen) http://fixthephoto.com/blog/photo-tips/underwater-photography-tips.html

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