Dive Details |
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Location |
The Steps, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
21 September, 2013 |
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Time |
8:36am - 9:55am |
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Details |
Entered at The Steps and headed straight to the sand line. Almost immediately, we were buzzed by huge school of Australian salmon. (At first I thought they were kingfish, but after looking at the video, I'm pretty sure they are salmon.) They buzzed us a couple of times.
After the fun of the salmon, we got on our way to The Monument along the sand line. We saw a weedy seadragon, an octopus and quite a few Port Jackson sharks as we went. When we got to "Honey"'s location, I looked very carefully for her but she was not visible. I did manage to find the little yellow painted angler ("Little Sebastien") we'd seen previously. It was only around 30 centimetres from where it had been 4 weeks earlier.
For the rest of the swim to The Monument, I looked carefully for seahorses but didn't find any. I also couldn't find the small orange angler ("Little George") we'd seen previously.
We exited on the rocks on the corner at The Monument. |
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Buddy |
Ian Jackson |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
5-10 metres |
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Duration |
78 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
14.0 m |
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Average depth |
11.0 m |
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Water temperature |
15.6°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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Low |
3:04am |
0.25m |
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High |
9:18am |
1.68m |
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Low |
3:30pm |
0.29m |
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High |
9:38pm |
1.56m |
Video |
Video captured with GoPro HD Hero with BlurFix and URPro CY filter
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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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Eye of a stingaree. 11.1 m. |

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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 10.2 m. |

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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.8 m. |

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Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 11.7 m. |

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Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 11.7 m. |

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Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.9 m. |

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Eye of a Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 12.6 m. |

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Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 12.5 m. |

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Painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 12.2 m. |

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Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 12.8 m. |

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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 12.9 m. |

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Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.8 m. |
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