Nadine Evans

FAVOURITE LOCAL DIVE SITE: Ammo Jetty

This is a surprising gem of a shore dive.  Sometimes there can be a little swell on top but generally it is great once you get under.  With an abundance of octopus, look carefully for the globe fish, very pretty soft corals covering the pylons and of course the sealion that is a resident of this area.  No matter how many times I dive there when he flits through your bubbles and across someone’s head it is guaranteed to make me jump!

My first night dive in WA was down here with Amanda, so we had been down to the jetty before kitting up and briefing the dive for everyone, to check the conditions.  While there we had seen the sealion playing around and being fed by the fishermen.  But no matter – when a dark grey shape speeds past the torch beam I only realised what it was from a muffled shriek through her reg from Amanda, still amuses me now!

Dive Instructor Qualifications:

• IDC Staff Instructor
• EFR Instructor

Specialties:

• Deep Diver
• Wreck Diver
• Underwater Navigation
• EANx Nitrox Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Night Diver
• Project Aware Diver
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation

Most Memorable – Donkala, North Ari Atoll, Maldives

Mantas!  You just can’t beat these amazing animals.  Donkala is a tricky site as the reef is fairly small in the middle of deep water, with the top at about 24 metres, and usually quite a current running.  The whole site has been missed on occasion if divers don’t get down fast enough!  But once down you lie on the bottom and wait………and so worth the wait.  We only had 4 mantas on the last dive I did there but they gradually swoop closer and closer until they were swimming over the top of us missing us by just a metre or so.  Awesome!