Dive Details |
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Location |
Silver Beach Baths, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
03 January, 2014 |
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Time |
8:42pm - 10:09pm |
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Details |
Got in at the beach at the western end of the baths, outside the nets, and swam out along the groyne to where the nets start. On the corner saw a blue-lined octopus climbing along the rocks.
I went around the front of the nets ranging from 1 to 20 metres from the nets the the eastern end of the net. The visibility dropped as I got closer to the eastern end. Along the way I saw lots of prawns, 2 dumpling squid, 3 very large calamari squid and one small one, and a few crabs.
At the end of the nets, I turned and came back along the nets and out on the sand. I found a hammer octopus in a hole in the sand. It came out to play.
I continued back the north western corner of the baths and then back along the western groyne, exiting at the beach. |
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Buddy |
Karolyn and Seb Landat |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
2-3 metres |
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Duration |
86 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
2.8 m |
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Average depth |
2.2 m |
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Water temperature |
22.5°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Botany Bay AEDT |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
3:58am |
0.29m |
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High |
10:29am |
2.04m |
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Low |
5:07pm |
0.08m |
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High |
11:08pm |
1.50m |
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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Prawn, Melicertus sp. 1.6 m.
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Prawn, Melicertus sp. 1.8 m.
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Blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus. 2 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 1.6 m.
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Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 2.5 m.
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Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 2.5 m.
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Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 2.4 m.
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Eye of a fan-bellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis. 1.6 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 2.2 m.
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Hammer octopus, Octopus australis, in a hole in the sand. 2.7 m.
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Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 2.6 m.
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Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 2.6 m.
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Hammer octopus, Octopus australis, going into a hole in the sand. 2.7 m.
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Hammer octopus, Octopus australis, in a hole in the sand. 2.7 m.
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Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 2.5 m.
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