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Dick

Dive site · Papua New Guinea

Advanced divers and up

Fresh water: lake, river or quarry

Is it worth the trip?

65Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

5 days tie for best

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Tue 3 · 65 out of 100

Wind
2 kn
Gusts
10kn
Rain
7.6 mm
Air
29°C

Wed 4 · 64 out of 100

Wind
3 kn
Gusts
7kn
Rain
2.8 mm
Air
29°C

Thu 5 · 65 out of 100

Wind
1 kn
Gusts
5kn
Rain
6.1 mm
Air
29°C

Fri 6 · 65 out of 100

Wind
2 kn
Gusts
5kn
Rain
0 mm
Air
29°C

Sat 7 · 64 out of 100

Wind
2 kn
Gusts
6kn
Rain
0 mm
Air
30°C

Sun 8 · 65 out of 100

Wind
1 kn
Gusts
6kn
Rain
0.6 mm
Air
29°C

Mon 9 · 65 out of 100

Wind
1 kn
Gusts
7kn
Rain
5.4 mm
Air
29°C

Tap a day for wind, gusts and rain. Full forecast

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Mon 261, good
  2. Tue 365, good
  3. Wed 464, good
  4. Thu 565, good
  5. Fri 665, good
  6. Sat 764, good
  7. Sun 865, good
  8. Mon 965, good
  9. Tue 1065, good
  10. Wed 1165, good

The site in four facts

  • Down to 35 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Fresh watera lake, quarry or spring

Full forecast

every day, every number

The score doesn't know currents, the visibility on the day or your certification.

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

Fresh water has no waves to forecast, so the 39 points out of 100 that a sea site gets for a calm sea are given in full. The day turns on the wind (20 points) and the rain (6); gusts of 30 kn or more still score it nothing.

No satellite reads a lake's clarity or its water, so its day is its surface alone: 65 of 100, where a sea site also scores up to 20 for how far you see and 10 for warm water (D275).

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.

Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. Scored for Advanced divers.

Wind and rain forecast and score for each day at Dick
DayScoreWindGustsRainAir
Mon 2Nov61, good1 kn5kn15.8 mm25°C
Tue 3Nov65, good2 kn10kn7.6 mm29°C
Wed 4Nov64, good3 kn7kn2.8 mm29°C
Thu 5Nov65, good1 kn5kn6.1 mm29°C
Fri 6Nov65, good2 kn5kn0 mm29°C
Sat 7Nov64, good2 kn6kn0 mm30°C
Sun 8Nov65, good1 kn6kn0.6 mm29°C
Mon 9Nov65, good1 kn7kn5.4 mm29°C
Tue 10Nov65, good1 kn7kn10.2 mm29°C
Wed 11Nov65, good1 kn9kn6.6 mm30°C
Thu 12Nov65, good2 kn8kn0 mm26°C

Wind and gusts are in knots, rain in mm. More

Tide

  • Mon 2 NovLow 06:49 −0.5 mHigh 15:22 +0.4 m
  • Tue 3 NovLow 07:26 −0.4 mHigh 15:27 +0.3 mLow 21:52 +0.0 m
  • Wed 4 NovHigh 01:05 +0.1 mLow 07:58 −0.3 mHigh 15:31 +0.3 mLow 21:55 −0.1 m

Local clock times; heights about mean sea level. On open coasts the times are usually within a quarter of an hour; in bays, estuaries and on the Gulf of Mexico they can be an hour or more out. Slack water, the safest time to dive where there is current, is about half an hour either side of each high and low. Tide: EOT20 global ocean tide model, Hart-Davis et al. 2021, DGFI-TUM (doi:10.17882/79489), CC BY 4.0. Times and heights computed by us. A model, not a tide table: check a local table before you go.

Forecast updated . It refreshes every three hours. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Map

the site and its town

Each place wears its best day on these dates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says.

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

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. 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.

The score is the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change it (how we score, how we earn).

Where to stay: Rabaul

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Closest

Rabaul

about 55 min by car · 5 places to stay

about US$74/nightcountry average

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About Rabaul its beds, food and every spot near it

About US$74 a night is our estimate of the country's average 2-star double room that month: not each town's price, and not a quote. Drives are estimates. Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

Getting there

An estimate, one way; the journey never changes the score.

In the water

Dive centres nearby

No dive centre mapped within 25 km.

Dive centres: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Credits

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