Diving Torches have a place on every single dive, from looking at critters in a tiny crevice, signalling a team mate from across the wreck or lighting your next diving blockbuster there are torches for all users, price brackets and applications. Dive lights from Dive Perfect, Underwater Kinetics, Light and Motion and Apollo are ideal for recreational divers thanks to their quality light output, compactness and the fact that they run on typical household sized batteries such as AA or C cells.
Some of these dive lights are made to withstand the rigours of technical exploration diving, and feature immensely bright bulbs, a tight spot for signalling and large rechargeable NiMh batteries. The Dive Perfect Stubby LED-1000 makes an excellent backup light but is more than powerful enough for most recreational applications.
A light-emitting diode is an electronic light source. All early devices emitted low-intensity red light, but modern LEDs are available across the visible, ultraviolet and infra red wavelengths, with very high brightness. The LED is usually small in area (less than 1 mm2) with integrated optical components to shape its radiation pattern and assist in reflection. LEDs present many advantages over traditional light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved robustness, smaller size and faster switching. However, they are relatively expensive and require more precise current and heat management than traditional light sources.
Shore Dive | Shore access
Depth: 1 m (3.28 ft) to 8 m (26 ft)
Fosters Beach in Mornington is a fairly narrow, steep, rocky, west facing beach on the Eastern side of Port Phillip. It's only 80 metres long and the cliffs are steep and unstable so keep to the tracks. There is deep water close inshore at high tide and rips are present when waves are breaking. The main beach area is all rocks.
The Esplanade runs along the top of the 20 to 30 metre high sandstone bluffs behind the beach, and there is a continuous foreshore reserve west of the road.
Parking: Access is via via the Fossil Beach walking track from a small car park opposite #631 Esplanade, Mornington, Victoria 3941 and restricted to a steep slope down the bluffs. After a hundred metres the track branches off to the north to access Fosters Beach (also known as the Fossil Beach Leash Free area). Note: you can also choose to continue further along the track to the equally isolated Fossil Beach.
Fosters Beach is exposed to strong westerly winds and waves. Best dived or snorkelled with light easterly offshore winds. There is deep water close inshore at high tide.
See WillyWeather (Fosters Beach) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.
Many references to Fosters Beach have it located at Coral Cove by mistake.
Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. This truly ancient Country includes parts of Port Phillip, from the Werribee River in the north-west, down to Wilson's Promontory in the south-east, including the Mornington Peninsula, French Island and Phillip Island, plus Western Port. We wish to acknowledge the Boon Wurrung as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Bunjil the Creator Spirit of this beautiful land, who travels as an eagle, and Waarn, who protects the waterways and travels as a crow, and thank them for continuing to watch over this Country today and beyond.
Fosters Beach Location Map
Latitude: 38° 14.400′ S (38.240002° S / 38° 14′ 24.01″ S)
Longitude: 145° 1.694′ E (145.028228° E / 145° 1′ 41.62″ E)
Datum: WGS84 |
Google Map
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Added: 2021-12-31 16:56:52 GMT, Last updated: 2022-05-24 23:02:43 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Fossil Beach, 316 m, bearing 192°, SSW
Mornington, Port Phillip.
Depth: 1 to 8 m.
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DISCLAIMER: No claim is made by The Scuba Doctor as to the accuracy of the dive site coordinates listed here. Should anyone decide to use these GPS marks to locate and dive on a site, they do so entirely at their own risk. Always verify against other sources.
The marks come from numerous sources including commercial operators, independent dive clubs, reference works, and active divers. Some are known to be accurate, while others may not be. Some GPS marks may even have come from maps using the AGD66 datum, and thus may need be converted to the WGS84 datum. To distinguish between the possible accuracy of the dive site marks, we've tried to give each mark a source of GPS, Google Earth, or unknown.
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