New for 2018
Miflex XT-Tech technical diving Inflator hoses

The XT-Tech series of technical diving medium pressure flexible BCD / Inflator / Jacket hoses has been developed with the main purpose to offer technical divers additional safety with Kevlar reinforcements in the inner braiding, combined with a smooth outer layer of PU.

This new technical diving inflator hose configuration from Miflex, as it is not positively buoyant, is particularly appreciated because of the less abrasion around the neck, allowing the hose to stay in place.

The Miflex XT-Tech BCD / Inflator / Jacket hoses offer the same characteristics of a traditional rubber hose with the plus of being lighter in weight.

The Miflex XT-Tech BCD hose has a polyether based PU thermoplastic inliner with an inner Polyester and Kevlar braiding and an outer smooth layer of thermoplastic. The fittings and the sleeves are made of sea water resistant electroless nickel plated brass.

All hoses comply to the European EN250 standard.

Operating Pressure: 35 bar.

Miflex XT-Tech technical diving jacket hoses are available in a single colour option and have a limited range of lengths available at this time. (Note: no custom sizes available.)

Miflex XT-Tech BCD / Inflator / Jacket hoses are supplied in re-usable drybag packaging and supplied with manufacturers warranty and user information.

Choosing the Best Inflator Hose Length

On a standard GUE back gas hose setup the BCD/Inflator/Wing hose length is 56 cm (22 inch).

Our most popular Dry Suit Inflator hose length is 90 cm (36 inch).

Hose length is measured in cm, from end to end of the hose, including the fittings and their threads.

The typical low-pressure BC inflator hose is a 3/8-inch UNF male at the end that screws into the first stage LP port, and at the other end is the Quick Disconnect BC female slide-lock Schrader valve fitting that accepts the standard BC inflator male QD post. The Miflex XT-Tech inflator hoses use this setup, the most common design of inflator coupling used in scuba diving.

Murrells Beach

Reef Dive | Shore access

Murrells Beach, Cape Nelson

Depth: 2 m (6.56 ft) to 15 m (49 ft)

Level: Open Water and beyond.

Murrells Beach (aka Bridgewater Bay 1 Beach) is a shore diving and snorkelling site on the western side of Cape Nelson, nine kilometres south-west of Portland on Victoria's Discovery Coast.

Bridgewater Bay is located between 50 metre high Cape Nelson and 130 metre high Cape Bridgewater. Both capes have basalt cores, that are remnants of an extinct volcano, and are capped by extensive dune calcarenite. The bay faces south and receives high waves and strong winds. The eastern 1.5 km of the bay contains three south-west facing beaches. They are backed by dune-capped calcarenite slopes and bluffs rising to 100 metres.

Bridgewater Bay Beach 1 (aka Murrells Beach), is 1 km long and swings around to face south-west against Cape Nelson. It receives some protection from the cape and extensive offshore reefs, with waves averaging between 1 and 1.5 metres. These result in a single attached bar, which is more sheltered toward the cape, but has higher waves and rips toward the north.

Diving and Snorkelling at Murrells Beach, Cape Nelson

Location: Murrells Beach Road, Cape Nelson, Portland, Victoria 3305

Parking: There is a car park at the western end of Murrells Beach Road, Cape Nelson. It's roughly 200 metres from the car park down onto the beach. Before gearing up check out the water. If you see lots of white water, head on home.

Entry/Exit: Enter and exit from Murrells Beach.

Ideal Conditions: Best dived in good conditions with a low swell with light offshore winds. See WillyWeather (Murrells Beach) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.

Abalone Dive Site
© Mark Norman, Museum Victoria

Divers have the opportunity to catch Abalone at this dive site. Remember your catch bag, legal abalone tool, current Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence, and abalone measure. Please abide by all current fishing regulations if you intend to catch abalone.

See article-catching-abalone for practical abalone hunting advice from The Scuba Doctor, plus melbourne-abalone-dives for a list of other Abalone dive sites near Melbourne.

Divers have the opportunity to catch Southern Rock Lobster (aka Crayfish) at this dive site. Remember your catch bag, current Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence, rock lobster measure, and cray tags. Once you get back to the dive boat, or shore, make sure you clip the tail and tag your Crayfish as per Fisheries requirements. Please abide by all current fishing regulations if you intend to catch crays. See article-catching-crayfish for practical cray hunting advice from The Scuba Doctor, plus melbourne-cray-dives for a list of other crayfish dive sites near Melbourne. For tips on cooking your Crays, please see article-cooking-crayfish.

Gunditjmara country

Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Gunditjmara people of far south-western Victoria which continues over the state border into a small part of south-east South Australia and is bordered by the Glenelg River to the west and the Wannon River in the north. This truly ancient Country extends 100 metres out to sea from low tide and also includes Deen Maar (aka Lady Julia Percy Island) where the Gunditjmara believe the spirits of their dead travel to wait to be reborn. We wish to acknowledge the Gunditjmara as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging.

Murrells Beach Location Map

Latitude: 38° 24.182′ S (38.403032° S / 38° 24′ 10.92″ S)
Longitude: 141° 31.702′ E (141.528362° E / 141° 31′ 42.1″ E)
Datum: WGS84 | Google Map | Get directions
Added: 2022-05-20 11:44:40 GMT, Last updated: 2022-05-23 16:17:18 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Murrells Reef, 945 m, bearing 242°, WSW
Cape Nelson, Portland, Discovery Coast.
Depth: 2 to 15 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.