MSAC Scuba Diving Club, Cape Town. Clubhouse currently 32 Belper Rd, Wynberg, sharing with FBUC 😬
30/12/2022
OMSAC -> MSAC!
🐠WHAT'S CHANGED / NOT CHANGED?
😅 Our friendly and inclusive diving group ethos remains — email us on [email protected] to find out how you can join a Club dive to check us out!
At the same time: from 31 December 2022, our name will change to MSAC (with a possible further change in the future) and our club base will be at 32 Belper Rd, Wynberg.
Thanks to friendly FBUC for hosting us while we navigate a new season! 🐟
17/10/2022
Interclub Potjiekos Competition — RSVP required!
It's Bellville Underwater Diving Club's turn to host the Annual Inter-club Potjiekos Competition! This is the first competition to be held since 2019, so be sure to come and join in the fun (and enjoy the delicious food, of course!)
RSVP is essential: by 21 October 2022, please - so that we can make sure you get a substantial share of the potjie. OMSAC pays for the food, all you need to do is buy your drinks (from the Bellville Club, to support them).
The chefs will be hard at work from 11am, but the rest of you can arrive from 1pm for social time.
07/10/2022
Save the date, Night Dive Fans!
DIVERSNIGHT 2022 is coming up - with fellow diveclub False
Bay Underwater Club, help us put Cape Town on the international scuba map by getting plenty of us in the water 💦🐠🌊
23/08/2022
Save the Date: Join our Coastal Cleanup morning
17 September at Kalk Bay Harbour
Meet at 8am,
In the water by 9am,
All done by 11am!
05/08/2022
*Zoom in on this to see tiny eyes 👀 !*
~ The competition brief was "anything under 1 cm in size" ~
These are horned blenny eggs inside an empty fanworm tube: awesome work, David Welch!
21/07/2022
BioBlitz coming up! Gather your saltwater friends and get snapping at the end of the month. Details in the pic…
It was a fabulous diving weekend, and a few people also snuck in some decent diving during the week, either due to their day jobs involving diving, or just catching a break from work!
Shy sharks around at the moment, as do whelk eggs, cuttle fish eggs, and lots of baby Roman.
11/07/2022
Dive Report 11 July 2022
JUST A COUPLE OF DIVE DAYS THIS WEEK 💦
One OMSAC'er managed to grab a friend and enjoy a mid-week dive excursion clocking in at 82 minutes.
For the weekend water babies, conditions weren't too encouraging and with boat dives cancelled, just one intrepid group hit the water on Saturday.
It's Shark Awareness Month ...
..and we're taking a look at some of the lesser-known shark species that are recorded as being present in our very own False Bay.
The first we decided to highlight is the Common or Atlantic Thresher.
This shark isn't that "common" for us but if you do see one, it's really easy to recognise because of the incredible length of the upper half of its tail fin... which can make up half it's totally body length!
The thresher shark uses the tail fin to 'thresh' or flail its prey -> mainly schooling fish like herring and anchovy.
Good news for humans (and no surprise if you are a 🦈 fan), despite its large size this shark is "minimally dangerous to humans due to its relatively small teeth and timid disposition" 😬
Unfortunately the Atlantic Thresher Shark's conservation status is listed as Threatened and Vulnerable due to its value to commercial fishers, with large numbers being caught on both long-line and gill-net.
Recreational fishers also value this shark for its 'fight' 😥
The common thresher has a low rate of reproduction and as a result cannot withstand heavy fishing pressure for long, a case proved by the rapid collapse of the thresher shark fishery off California in the 1980s.
And even seals can prey on smaller threshers — as shown by this snippet of video captured by an OMSACer recently while on a night excursion with Graeme Grant of Oceans Africa
04/07/2022
Dive Report 4 July 2022
A COUPLE OF PEACHY DAYS... AND THEN A WEEKEND 😁
Isn't that how it so often goes — while most of us are tied to our day-jobs, False Bay looks peachy 🍑 ...
and then as the weekend arrives, so does the dive-unfriendly weather.
Lucky you if you had time (and fuel!) to see June out and have a dive last Wednesday or Thursday!
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