Dive Details |
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Location |
Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW |
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Date |
26 December, 2012 |
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Time |
7:46am - 8:53am |
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Details |
Entered at "the pool" and went straight down the wall. We were blown away by how great the visibility was at the bottom of the wall. It was at least 8 metres in all directions.
We headed around a number of the bommies and then back to the wall, turning after around 40 minutes. We came back along the wall at around 10 metres.
While I was doing my safety stop on top of the wall, Peter Lightowler pointed out a large Tambja verconis nudibranch which vastly extended my safety stop. We exited at "the pool". |
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Buddy |
Sheree Papuni |
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Seas |
Choppy |
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Visibility |
3-8 metres |
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Duration |
66 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
16.6 m |
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Average depth |
10.7 m |
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Water temperature |
17.6°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 |
1:11am |
0.53m |
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High |
7:49am |
1.64m |
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Low |
2:41pm |
0.45m |
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High |
8:19pm |
1.24m |
Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D7000 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6801.70 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41 |
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Strobe |
2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161 |
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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Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 15.3 m.
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Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 14.3 m.
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Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 12.9 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish. Sepia mestus. 13.4 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.6 m.
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Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.6 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 11 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.9 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.5 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.6 m.
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Australian damselfish. Pomacentrus australis. 11.6 m.
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Mosaic leatherjacket, Eubalichthys mosaicus. 10.9 m.
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Mosauc leatherjacket, Eubalichthys mosaicus. 10.8 m.
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Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 11 m.
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Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 10.9 m.
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Long-ray weed-whiting, Siphonognathus radiatus. 4.2 m.
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Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 4.4 m.
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Nudibranch, Tambja verconis. 4.9 m.
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Nudibranch, Tambja verconis. 5.2 m.
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Nudibranch, Tambja verconis. 5.3 m.
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