Dive at The Steps, Kurnell, NSW on 21/9/13

Dive at The Steps, Kurnell, NSW on 21/9/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

21 September, 2013

Time

8:36am - 9:55am

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.

Buddy

Ian Jackson

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

78 minutes

Maximum depth

14.0 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

15.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:04am

0.25m

High

9:18am

1.68m

Low

3:30pm

0.29m

High

9:38pm

1.56m

Video

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.