Dive Details |
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Location |
The Steps, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
Saturday 1 August 2015 |
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Time |
10:27am - 12:01pm |
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Details |
As I did last weekend, I enjoyed my dive from The Leap so much I did a second dive. Conditions weren't going to be as good as it was an outgoing tide but they were going to be more than good enough for an enjoyable dive.
I jumped in at The Steps and descended to the sand line and kelp. I headed to the right and swam through the clumps of kelp. I did not see and weedy seadragons here.
Once I got to the rock where we first saw "Big John", the orange red-fingered angler, and "Little Andrew", the orange painted angler, I headed up from the sand line to look for "Di". She was still hiding in to the pale green finger sponge.
I then had a good look for the Miamira magnifica nudibranch but still could not find it. "Rosie" was on the same rock as the earlier dive.
I headed to the sand line and past the basket star. Not far past the basket star I saw the weedy seadragon I'd first seen last weekend (PT2015072501).
I swam to the rock with the pygmy pipehorses but initially could only find one. I checked out the adjacent rock and found the one there. I came back to the first rock and eventually found the second pygmy. It had moved quite a bit since the first dive.
I headed back past the basket star, "Rosie" and "Di" and still couldn't find the M. magnifica nudibranch. I swam to the boulders, did my safety stop and exited at The Steps. |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
5 to 10 metres |
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Duration |
93 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
15.1 m |
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Average depth |
11.4 m |
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Water temperature |
14.8°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 |
2:47am |
0.18m |
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High |
8:46am |
1.52m |
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Low |
2:31pm |
0.33m |
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High |
9:00pm |
2.00m |
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, ("Di"). 10.5 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.6 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 12.7 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.3 m.
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Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.3 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015070501). 12.4 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015070501). 12.3 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015070501). 12.2 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015072602) with my finger for scale. 12.9 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015072602). 12.9 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015072601). 12.1 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015072601). 12.2 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015070501). 12.2 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015072602). 12.8 m.
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Sea hare, Elysia ornata. 12.9 m.
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Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015072602). 12.7 m.
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Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 12.9 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.8 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.9 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.8 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.2 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 12.2 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Di"). 10 m.
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