Dive Details |
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Location |
Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW |
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Date |
Sunday 1 February 2015 |
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Time |
7:36am - 9:05am |
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Details |
The seas up and down the coast had been pretty rough for the last few days and Shiprock was one of the few places where a half decent dive would be possible (although I did hear that some people successully dived The Monument).
I pretty much followed Eddie for the whole dive. We jumped in at the pool and headed out and down the wall. The visibility was only around 3 metres. We then headed north for a while. I spotted a Plocamorpherus imperialis nudibranch and lost Eddie while I was photographing it. Fortunately, I caught up with him before he headed out onto the sand.
We swam across the sand for a bit and I spotted a painted stinkfish. I lost Eddie again but headed back to the wall and found him. I then stuck with him for the rest of the dive. We only made it as far as the piepapplefish but Eddie pointed out some cool stuff, including a flatworm, a banded coral shrimp and a orange reef-goby.
Despite the poor visibility it was a fun dive and we went for nearly 90 minutes. |
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Buddy |
Eddie Ivers |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
2-3 metres |
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Duration |
88 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
18.5 m |
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Average depth |
12.6 m |
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Water temperature |
21.6°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 |
1:01am |
0.53m |
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High |
7:34am |
1.66m |
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Low |
2:17pm |
0.43m |
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High |
8:09pm |
1.29m |
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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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 14.3 m.
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Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 15.7 m.
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Gracilis wrasse, Suezichthys devisi. 18.1 m.
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Painted stinkfish, Eocallionymus papilio. 17.3 m.
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Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 14.3 m.
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Gracilis wrasse, Suezichthys devisi. 15.9 m.
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Southern peacock sole, Pardachirus hedleyi. 15.7 m.
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Flatworm. 15.7 m.
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Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 13.6 m.
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Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.7 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.9 m.
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Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 13.5 m.
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Nudibranch, Doriprismatica atromarginata. 9.8 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.4 m.
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Hinge-back shrimp, Rhynchocinetes serratus. 13.7 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.9 m.
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Orange reef-goby, Priolepis nuchifasciatus. 9.4 m.
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Orange reef-goby, Priolepis nuchifasciatus. 9.4 m.
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