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Your spear fishing mask is an important part of your kit as it is essentially your eyes underwater! Low volume masks are great for spearfishing as they require less air to be used to equalise the mask at a depth, therefore saving vital oxygen.
Before using a new dive mask you will need to get rid of the factory seal used to protect the mask while it is on the shelf. Rub baby shampoo into the lens and skirt of your spearfishing mask, leave for three minutes, then wash off with warm (not hot) clean water. Repeat this process three times to ensure that your new spearfishing mask does not fog up too much on its first use.
Did you ever wonder why all the good spear fishermen wear only dark skirt masks? Clear silicone skirts can create reflections on the inside of the lenses from surface light distracting the hunter's focus on the prey. Real underwater hunters always wear Black.
Prescription/Corrective Lens Spearfishing Masks: — If you wear glasses and need some assistance seeing clearly when spearfishing, The Scuba Doctor is Australia's largest supplier of Corrective Lens Masks.
Note: Diving/snorkelling masks are very different to Swimming Goggles. See Goggles vs Masks.
Stanhope Bay
Reef Dive |
Shore access
Depth: 1 m (3.28 ft) to 10 m (33 ft)
Level: Open Water and beyond.
Stanhope Bay is an almost circular bay, with a 200 metre wide opening to the sea and a curving, 250 metre long beach inside. The narrow beach lies at the base of the cliffs and is fronted by a shallow sand and reef bay floor. Waves are low in the bay, with the water often calm at low tide.
Stanhope Bay lies on the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria and is part of the Bay of Islands Coastal Park which continues on from the Port Campbell National Park at Peterborough and extends through to Warrnambool.
There is plenty of interesting structure to explore and marine life to see at Stanhope Bay.
Stanhope Bay is best dived at high tide. See WillyWeather (Stanhope Bay) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.
{{southern-ocean-warning}}Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Eastern Maar people of south-western Victoria between the Shaw and Eumerella Rivers and from Yambuk in the south to beyond Lake Linlithgow in the north. This truly ancient Country extends as far north as Ararat and encompasses the coastal townships of Port Fairy in the west, Warrnambool, Peterborough, Port Campbell, Apollo Bay, Lorne, and Airies Inlet in the east, including the Great Ocean Road area. It also stretches 100 metres out to sea from low tide and therefore includes the iconic Twelve Apostles. "Eastern Maar" is a name adopted by the people who identify as Maar, Eastern Gunditjmara, Tjap Wurrung, Peek Whurrong, Kirrae Whurrung, Kuurn Kopan Noot and/or Yarro waetch (Tooram Tribe) amongst others. We wish to acknowledge the Eastern Maar as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Stanhope Bay Location Map
Latitude: 38° 30.161′ S (38.502679° S / 38° 30′ 9.64″ S)
Longitude: 142° 41.731′ E (142.695509° E / 142° 41′ 43.83″ E)
Datum: WGS84 |
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Added: 2021-06-04 15:06:00 GMT, Last updated: 2022-05-23 19:28:16 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Murnanes Bay, 2,149 m, bearing 309°, NW
Shipwreck Coast.
Depth: 1 to 10 m.
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