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Power House Underwater Club

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Company description Power House Underwater Club Incorporated is a non affiliated SCUBA Diving Club established in 1989. The club is a member of the Power House group of sporting clubs. Power House headquarters is located at Albert Park Lake in Melbourne, Australia. PHUC Inc is affiliated with the Melbourne Area Defence Divers (MAD Divers) and the clubs run combined diving activities.
Membership costs: $30 per year. Fees for new members paid after July are half price. Membership fees are used to subsidize boat dives and accommodation fees for trips away.
Membership Application: E-mail the Secretary with your details or come to a meeting.
Meeting Dates and Venue: Meetings start at 7:30 pm and are held on the last Wednesday of the month all year round. From November to April inclusive, we also meet on the second Wednesday of the month.
Diving: We dive all over Victoria in a variety of locations. We conduct regular weekends away to the more remote areas and also conduct interstate and overseas trips. Recent days, PNG for 7 days, WA for four weeks, Vanuatu for 14 days and Philippines for 14 days. We tend to rotate our dive trips to include a wide variety of differing dives. Easy shore dives, night dives, cray dives (in season) and deep/wreck dives. Dives from the club boats cost $15 for the first dive and $10 for second dives done on the same day.
Equipment: The Clubs have their own boats (3 inflatables), 4 compressors (2 fixed, 2 portable), 12 full sets of dive gear, wetsuits, tanks, Alpha lights etc.
Courses: The club has 3 PADI instructors as members. We run PADI Open Water courses and we also run Advanced, Rescue, Dive Master and Specialty courses as club activities. Advanced courses are essentially free for members as every club dive can be credited towards your Advanced course (small feeand additional dive course requirements
Dive equipment is available for hire to all financial club members.
We support and use Cressi diving equipment.
An additional $10 fee will be charged to hirers who eat the regulator mouth pieces!
Air fills cost $4.
Open Water Dive Courses
Prerequisites:
A diving medical certifying you as medically fit to dive. Must be completed prior to course commencement.
Contact one of the registered Doctors on the SPUMS list for your medical.
Be able to swim 200 metres unaided and tread water for 10 minutes.
PADI Open Water DiverCourse Cost:
$375 all inclusive. A course deposit of $100 is required to secure a place.
Equipment:
All diving equipment is provided by the dive club, although it is recommended that you have your own mask and snorkel to ensure a correct fit.
Course Materials: We provide you with openwater dive manual, dive tables, dive log book & certification card
Location description: Some words from about trips:
Coffs Harbour/Southwest Rocks Trip: From 15 to 23 July the club dived at Fish Rock Cave and the Solitary Islands. We towed the club RIB up from Melbourne and dived Fish Rock, the wreck of the Agnus Erving, South Solitary, Northwest Solitary, Wrights Reef, Surgeon Reef and MAD Grotto (we named it). Although we had 3 days when it was too rough to dive we still did plenty of diving in the relitively warm 18 degree water. The highlights of the trip were diving with the gray nurse sharks, manta rays, Chuck almost being squashed by a whale, turtles and very large black groper. The best dives were MAD Grotto which we discovered by chance on the last day and Fish Rock Cave.
PNG Dive Trip: In October 2000, eight club members went to Madang, New guinea for a week of diving. The diving at Madang is mostly coral reef wall diving on some very deep drop offs. On one dive at 70 metres the wall just kept going off into the deep blue. Other than walls there is a B25 Mitchell bomber wrecked at Jais Aben and a few scuttled wrecks. the dive services at Jais Aben are not the best and they do not deserve their PADI 5 Star rating. We had a number of cylinder valves fail on their hire tanks and air tased of oil.
Ships Graveyard: On 20 Jan 02 we ventured out to the Commonwealth Ships Graveyard to look for a couple of deep wrecks I had been given GPS marks for. We launched from Ocean Grove and headed out through Barwon Heads for the 12 km trip in the RIB to the first GPS mark. As luck had it some one was already diving on the Milora and we didn`t need to search long to find the wreck. The boat we joined out there also had an accurate fix on the Batman so we decided that three of us would dive the Batman and three the Milora. The visibility was better on the Batman but the Milora being a much bigger wreck was the better dive of the two wrecks.
Both these wrecks, although quite deep, are worth the long boat ride. There are also many other scuttled wrecks in this area which we intend to look for next time the sea is calm.
South West Rocks: North of Sydney on the NSW coast is a speck size town, with excellent diving. I was always curious about the diving here from the pictures seen in dive magazines.
I cannot find the words to describe the cave and its treasures without writing pages upon pages. We also found an air pocket in the ceiling; you can poke your head in for a chat, though you are still 2 atmospheres.
Upon exiting Lis looked up to see a 2m wobby coming straight for her. Though it was startling to the diver, it was only going by to enter the cave. A crayfish shell was souvenired, swiped from under the nose of a large wobby. Very entertaining when your buddy has control of the torch and you are being eyed by the highly-strung wobby.

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Located in Melbourne. The club is affiliated with the Melbourne Area Defence Dive Club. Cheap boat dives and equipment hire to club members.

Contact information:
Phone: 0419 538737
Street Address:

Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 10 Brisbain, Vladivostok, Sidney, Canberra
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