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Cape Town dive visibility was decided
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Visibility, swell and wind for your next dive. Leading global forecast models, with six days of local swell and wind history.

ECMWF · NOAA GFS · Météo-France · DWD About the models

Wave forecasts: ECMWF WAM, NOAA GFS-Wave, Météo-France MFWAM and DWD GWAM. Wind forecasts: ECMWF IFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON.

Each model runs through the site’s swell, wind and settling model. The forecast shows a range, calibrated against logged dives.

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80% range Median Bottom stirring Coastal tide Now Gate: go / touch and go / no-go

Where this is

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Site No-take MPA zone

Zones from Government Gazette No. 21948 (29 December 2000), declaring the Table Mountain National Park and Betty’s Bay MPAs under the Marine Living Resources Act 18 of 1998. Seaward boundaries drawn as gazetted; check with SANParks before spearfishing. Map © OpenStreetMap.

The week ahead

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Dive log

Reports train the model and are never published or shown back to anyone. Up to five uploads per IP each day.

Raw values

3-hourly · chances counted across the ensemble

Regional water state

context only · not a forecast input
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