Dive Details |
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Location |
Camp Cove, Watsons Bay, NSW |
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Date |
15 March, 2013 |
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Time |
7:27pm - 8:35pm |
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Details |
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
According to Bureau of Meteorology, the seas were only going to be around half a metre with light south-easterly winds, perfect for Camp Cove. Unfortunately, there was quite a bit more swell and it was very surgy. Visibility was pretty poor and there was a lot of sand in the water.
We headed out form the beach and I lost Wes and Paul almost immediately. I kept on regardless but the surge and poor viz did not make it good. I saw a few calamari squid and a frog fish but not much else. After about 30 minutes I was ready to bail and headed back to the beach. The visibility improved somewhat closer to the beach but I had lost interest by then. After removing my fins and mask and starting to exit the water, I noticed Wes and Paul's lights out in the water and thought I'd give it another go and went to find them. I didn't find them but the second half of the dive was much better, finding a number of cuttlefish, an octopus and even a blue-lined octopus. Despite the poor conditions it was still a pretty good dive. |
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Buddy |
Wes Harris and Paul |
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Seas |
Surgy |
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Visibility |
2-4 metres |
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Duration |
62 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
4.2 m |
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Average depth |
2.8 m |
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Water temperature |
22.1°C |
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Site Map |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
5:30am |
0.52m |
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High |
11:34am |
1.46m |
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Low |
5:30pm |
0.47m |
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High |
11:51pm |
1.62m |
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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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.5 m.
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Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 3.5 m.
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Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 3.9 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.3 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.3 m.
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Octopus, Octopus sp. 3.5 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.9 m.
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Octopus, Octopus sp. 3.7 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.5 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.1 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.2 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.2 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.2 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.2 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.3 m.
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