Dive Details |
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Location |
The Leap, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
18 August, 2013 |
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Time |
12:56pm - 2:02pm |
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Details |
Entered at The Leap and swam down to the sand line. My dry suit was self inflating again so I had to disconnect it shortly after I got to the sand line. I was already under 200 bar.
We swam along the sand line looking for anglers and seahorses. I found a weedy seadragon along the way. We found "Bob" on the rock behind seahorse rock and "Kel" was hanging on to a sponge just below the rock. We could not find "Rosie" at all.
We drift along to "Southern Cross" and found "Richie" and "Pierre". It took us a while to find "Southern Cross" as she was on the side of the rock. At both seahorse locations we noticed a lot of filamentous algae of a brown colour covering the rocks.
Further along from "Southern Cross" I found a hunting cuttlefish and then a male weedy seadragon with eggs.
We drifted shallower and existed at The Steps. |
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Buddy |
Sheree Papuni, Peter Jaques |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
10-15 metres |
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Duration |
65 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
21.4 m |
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Average depth |
14.5 m |
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Water temperature |
16.1°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Botany Bay AEST |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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High |
5:34am |
1.32m |
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Low |
11:15am |
0.42m |
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High |
5:53pm |
1.83m |
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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Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 21 m.
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Weed seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.8 m.
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Weed seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 21 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 19.6 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 20.3 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 20.3 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.7 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18.3 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 17.3 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 17.4 m.
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Hunting reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.6 m.
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Eggs on a male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.5 m.
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Weed seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.4 m.
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Eggs on a male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.4 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.5 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.4 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.3 m.
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Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 14.2 m.
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Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.2 m.
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