Dive Details |
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Location |
The Leap, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
14 June 2014 |
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Time |
7:36am - 8:52am |
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Details |
It was overcast and rainy at The Leap and there was an east-south-easterly swell. It was a little rough but not too rough to dive. I slid down the rock next to the ledge to enter the water. I descended and swam to the sand line at 60° arriving at the amphitheatre.
I turned left and headed towards The Steps. I found "Lucy" and "Bob" at their new location. It looks like they may stay here, and I hope they do.
I continued on and found two weedy seadragons before I got to Seahorse Rock. Behind Seahorse Rock I found "Alex", the painted angler, it its usual location. "Rosie", the pot-bellied seahorse, was also on her usual rock. I had a hunt around for the small orange painted angler but could not find it.
At the next seahorse location I found "Southern Cross", "Pierre" and "Richie". "Pierre" was very pregnant and I hung around for a bit in case he was about to give birth. He didn't while I was still there.
I swam on towards The Steps finding three more weedy seadragons along the way. That was 5 for the dive. The basket star was in its usual location.
I checked out the rock where Di previously pointed out the pygmy pipehorses and found one of them, a male I think. On my way to The Steps I again looked for "Big John", the undescribed angler that had been seen last week, but was not able to find it. I did my safety stop near the Plesiastrea colonies and exited at The Steps. The exit was a bit hairy because it was nearly high tide and the swell was pushing straight onto the exit. |
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Surgy |
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Visibility |
10+ metres |
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Duration |
75 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
21.9 m |
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Average depth |
14.9 m |
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Water temperature |
17.7°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 |
3:05am |
0.24m |
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High |
9:03am |
1.49m |
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Low |
2:43pm |
0.42m |
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High |
9:15pm |
2.04m |
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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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lucy"). 21 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 20.7 m.
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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 21.6 m.
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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 21.5 m.
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Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Alex"). 20 m.
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Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Alex"). 20.3 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 20.4 m.
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Very pregnant male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 18.1 m.
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Very pregnant male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 18.2 m.
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Very pregnant male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 18.1 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18.4 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 18.1 m.
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Eastern smooth boxfish. Anoplocapros inermis. 18.4 m.
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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.9 m.
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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 18 m.
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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 18.2 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 15 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 15.4 m.
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Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 14.2 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 12.9 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 12.8 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 12.8 m.
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