Dive Details |
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Location |
The Steps, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
06 February, 2011 |
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Time |
10:23am - 11:13am |
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Details |
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at The Steps and headed east towards The Leap, turning when I reached 100 bar. Visibility was quite poor, especially considering the westerly winds and rising tide. There was a lot of brown/green snot in the water. |
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Buddy |
George Borovskis |
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Seas |
Flat but some surge |
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Visibility |
3-5 metres |
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Duration |
50 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
14.1 m |
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Average depth |
10.9 m |
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Water temperature |
15.3°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Botany Bay AEDT |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
4:49am |
0.47m |
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High |
11:07am |
1.61m |
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Low |
5:30pm |
0.38m |
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High |
11:36pm |
1.42m |
Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D300 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 diopter |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6812.3 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50 |
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Strobe |
2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS125 |
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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Rock flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasus. 7.5 m.
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Head of rock flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasus. 7.5 m.
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Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.1 m.
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Nudibranchs, Chromodoris splendida. 11.2 m.
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Blue dragon nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 10.7 m.
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Dendrophylliid stony coral with tentacles extended. 13.2 m.
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Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 13,3 m.
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Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.7 m.
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Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 12.3 m.
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Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10.9 m.
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