Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 1/9/13

Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 1/9/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

01 September, 2013

Time

12:33pm - 1:39pm

Details

Entered at The Leap and headed straight to the sand line. Drifted along the sand line with the incoming tide. We were looking for painted anglers. I managed to find two tiny sea spiders (pycnogonids) in the algae. Along the way we also saw a pair of reaper cuttlefish and a weedy seadragon.

Behind seahorse rock we found "Rosie", "Bob" and "Kel". "Rosie" hadn't been seen for the last few dives so it was good to see her back.

On the way to "Southern Cross" we saw another weedy seadragon and another pair of reaper cuttlefish. We found "Southern Cross", "Pierre" and "Richie" at their usual location.

We followed the sand line along as far as the basket star, seeing more weedy seadragons, including two juveniles and another pair of reaper cuttlefish. At the basket star we headed up into shallower water and exited at The Steps. We did not find any anglers.

Buddy

Peter Jaques

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

21.4 m

Average depth

15.2 m

Water temperature

15.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

High

5:30am

1.19m

Low

11:03am

0.61m

High

5:36pm

1.54m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

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.