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At 21:15 3/12/96 +1100, you wrote:
>At 10:09 AM 2/12/1996 -0500, Jeff Bentley wrote:
>
>>I put up a page to speed up site condition updates.
>
>Jeff,
>
>Just for interest's sake, you might like to check 
>out our site update page. It is at:
>
>http://www.mhl.nsw.gov.au/htbin/field_ors_curre.com
>
>There is a permanently moored instrument array 3km out 
>to sea off Bondi Beach. The instruments give us:
>
>wave height               wave period
>wind speed                wind direction
>surface temperature       bottom temperature
>surface current speed     bottom current speed
>surface current direction bottom current direction
>
>The information is relayed to the hydrology lab
>which updates the web page every five minutes.
>
>You'll notice how the current off the coast here
>backs up, eddies and reverses quite frequently.
>
>Since the wrecks we dive are 3 - 6km out, the
>information is quite valuable. All we need is
>vis. readout and shark activity indicator and 
>life would be complete.

Stroke detector could be usefull too.
Good website, though with information like this we can't BS like the yanks
do about diving in 4knot currents.

>
>rgrds    billyw
>
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