Dive Details |
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Location |
Oak Park, Cronulla, NSW, |
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Date |
18 February, 2007 |
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Time |
10:12am - 11:07am |
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Details |
Entered water on south side of pool and headed out along the wall. |
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Buddy |
Colin Keene, Tim Everest, Paul Dell'Oro |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
5 |
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Duration |
55 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
9.2 m |
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Average depth |
6.4 m |
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Water temperature |
17.3°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Fort Dension, Sydney. AEDT |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
3:07am |
0.29m |
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High |
9:35am |
1.92m |
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Low |
4:09pm |
0.10m |
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High |
10:09pm |
1.52m |
Species Seen |
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Species |
Common name |
Size
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Number |
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Fish |
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Pomacentridae |
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Pomacentrus coelestis |
Blue Damsel |
Small |
1 |
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Labridae |
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Labroides dimidiatus
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Cleaner Wrasse |
Large |
2 |
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Ostraciidae |
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Ostracion cubicus |
Yellow Boxfish |
Medium |
1 |
Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D70 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF +4 diopter |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6807.1 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.55 |
Photographs |
Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.
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Ascidian. 4.4 m.
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Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 4.9 m.
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Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 5.7 m.
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Colin. 5 m.
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Paul. 4.8 m.
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Sea tulip, Pyura spinifera. 5.9 m.
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Sea tulips, Pyura spinifera. 6.6 m.
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Orange encrusting sponge. 6.8 m.
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Anemones. 7.5 m.
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Zoanthids. 8.1 m.
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Ascidians, Polycitor giganteus. 7.9 m.
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Orange sponge. 7.9 m.
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Close up of orange sponge. 8 m.
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Stony coral, perhaps a colour variant of Plesiastrea versipora. 8 m.
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Half-banded seaperch, Hypoplectrodes maccullochi. 7.3 m.
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Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.1 m.
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Threefin. 8.2 m.
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Nudibranchs, Hypselodoris bennetti. 7.2 m.
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Ascidian, Clavelina meridionalis. 7.4 m.
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Nudibranchs, Hypselodoris bennetti. 7.4 m.
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Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus. 7.7 m.
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Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 7.6 m.
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Nudibranch, G. atromarginata. 7.7 m.
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Zoanthids. 6.7 m.
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Sabellid featherduster worm. 6.3 m.
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Corallimorphs (left) and zoanthids (right). 6.3 m.
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A ball of stripped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 5.6 m.
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A ball of stripped catfish, P. lineatus. 7.1 m.
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A ball of stripped catfish, P. lineatus. 7 m.
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Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 6.9 m.
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Blue groper, A. viridis. 6.8 m.
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Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 5 m.
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