Dive Details |
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Location |
Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW |
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Date |
Saturday 22 November 2014 |
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Time |
7:27am - 8:42am |
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Details |
The forecast was for a north easterly swell so I decided to dive at Bare Island rather than Kurnell. The waves battering the eastern side of the island looked more like a south easterly swell. It was too rough to jump in on the western side of the island so I got in on the northern side as far west as I dared and swam on the surface around to the western side. I descended and swam south to the wall, dropped down the wall and swam north west along the wall until the end.
I started to look for seahorses and found "Della" almost immediately. I then remembered the new male from a month ago that was on the next tier down on an orange sponge and it was still there.
I hunted around for "Tomas" but could not initially find him so I looked further afield where I found a red indianfish near the sand line. On coming back to the seahorse area I spotted a red-fingered angler right near the seahorses.
After a bit more searching I eventually found "Tomas" who was less than a metre from "Della".
I headed north to the shallow wall and followed it north around the island. At the northern tip of the island I slowed down to look for pygmy pipehorses but found none.
I came around the northern side of the island and did my safety stop as I swam. I exited at the "boat ramp". |
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Seas |
Choppy |
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Visibility |
5-10 metres |
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Duration |
74 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
18.3 m |
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Average depth |
13.7 m |
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Water temperature |
20.1°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 |
2:17am |
0.39m |
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High |
8:45am |
1.76m |
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Low |
3:17pm |
0.31m |
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High |
9:12pm |
1.42m |
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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Nudibranchs, Chromodoris tasmaniensis. 16.3 m. These are about to mate or have just mated.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.6 m.
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Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 18 m.
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Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 18.1 m.
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Red-fingered angler, Porophryne erythrodactylus. 17.4 m.
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Red-fingered angler, Porophryne erythrodactylus. 17.3 m.
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Red-fingered angler, Porophryne erythrodactylus. 17.4 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 17.3 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 17.3 m.
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Sea star, Petricia vernicina. 16.3 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.6 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Tomas"). 16.7 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.5 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Tomas"). 16.4 m.
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Red-fingered angler, Porophryne erythrodactylus. 17.1 m.
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Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 17.9 m.
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