Dive Details |
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Location |
Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW |
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Date |
15 June 2014 |
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Time |
8:19am - 9:33am |
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Details |
It was overcast and threatening with rain at Bare Island when I arrived. There was a ESE swell but also strong westerly winds making it quite choppy. I wanted to get in on the western side of the island to shorten the swim to the wall but it was too rough. It was even too rough for a surface swim around the corner so I got in on the northern side of the island as far west as I dare and descended to the sand line.
I swam west and then south west and eventually south until I reached the wall. I descended the wall and turned to the west.
I followed the wall to the west until it ended and then started looking for the seahorses. It took me quite a while to find the first one, a yellow one, "Kim". It took me even longer to find the second one, "Della". I looked some more but found no others.
I headed north towards the shallow wall and when I found it, I followed it around to the west and then headed north. I cut across the top and ended up on the slope, following it east until I hit the boulders. I started my safety stop over the boulders as I swam to the exit. I exited at the ramp. |
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Seas |
Choppy |
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Visibility |
10 metres |
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Duration |
73 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
18.2 m |
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Average depth |
12.5 m |
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Water temperature |
16.9°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 |
3:56am |
0.22m |
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High |
9:57am |
1.49m |
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Low |
3:36pm |
0.44m |
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High |
10:05pm |
2.03m |
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, ("Kim"). 17.4 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kim"). 17.3 m.
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Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 16.3 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.5 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.3 m.
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Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 10 m.
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Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 10 m.
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Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 10.1 m.
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Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.9 m.
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