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Dick, Papua New Guinea

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Fresh water: lake, river or quarry

About Dick

A reef dive in fresh water: a lake, quarry or spring. It goes down to 35 m. You get in from a boat. It suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 33 km away. For experienced divers the best months are usually January, February, March and April, with about 7 good days in 7. From the weather of past years. The town to stay in is Rabaul.

  • Water Fresh water: a lake, river or quarry, not the sea. It is scored on its wind and rain only.
  • What it is Reef.
  • How deep Down to 35 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 33 km away.

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Dive centres nearby

No dive centre mapped within 25 km.

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What is under the water (visibility, current, life) no free forecast gives. Ask a dive centre before you book.

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Forecast

Fresh water: lake, river or quarry: scored by other rules.

Fresh water has no waves to forecast, so the 48 points out of 80 that a sea site gets for a calm sea are given in full. The day turns on the wind (24 points) and the rain (8); gusts of 34 kn or more still score it nothing.

No sea temperature is read for it: nothing forecasts a lake's water, and it is often much colder at depth than at the top. Ask a dive centre what suit to bring.

Best on Sun 18: Fresh water (a lake, river or quarry): no sea, so scored on wind and rain only. Wind 4 kn gusting 13.

The score for experienced divers, coloured as on the area pages:GoodFairPoor

Wind and rain forecast and score for each day at Dick
DayScoreWindGustsRain
Sun 18Oct80, good4 kn13kn0.2 mm
Mon 19Oct80, good3 kn8kn0 mm
Tue 20Oct80, good1 kn4kn0.2 mm
Wed 21Oct80, good1 kn6kn0.8 mm
Thu 22Oct80, good1 kn5kn3.2 mm
Fri 23Oct80, good3 kn7kn1.5 mm
Sat 24Oct80, good3 kn7kn2.1 mm
Sun 25Oct80, good2 kn9kn6 mm
Mon 26Oct80, good1 kn7kn9 mm
Tue 27Oct80, good1 kn6kn18.6 mm
Wed 28Oct80, good1 kn7kn0 mm

Day scores are the conditions out of 80, from the two best daylight readings: a morning and an afternoon dive. Fresh water (a lake, river or quarry): no sea, so scored on wind and rain only. Wind and gusts are in knots (10 kn is about 19 km/h); rain is over the daylight readings, in mm. Water has no reading: no sea temperature is read for a lake. What is under the water (visibility, current, life) no free forecast gives.

The season

Good diving days in a typical week, each month, for experienced divers, from 2016 on (ERA5 history scored the same way).

  1. Jan7of 7
  2. Feb7of 7
  3. Mar7of 7
  4. Apr7of 7
  5. May7of 7
  6. Jun7of 7
  7. Jul7of 7
  8. Aug7of 7
  9. Sep7of 7
  10. Oct7of 7
  11. Nov7of 7
  12. Dec7of 7

Typical, not a forecast: the mean wind of each day (a lake has no sea), with no gusts or rain in the history.

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