Dive Details |
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Location |
The Steps, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
Tuesday 26 January 2016 |
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Time |
11:19am - 12:23pm |
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Details |
We jumped in at The Steps, descended to the sand line and headed towards The Monument. Initially the visibility was around 5 metres.We followed the sand/kelp line along. We saw 4 weedy seadragons before we reached the area where we used to see "Honey": the male with no head appendages (PT2015010102), the female missing her first head appendage (PT2014012602), the female with a growth on her snout (PT2014041802) and a large juvenile (PT2015112401).
By now the visibility dropped to around 3 metres. We swam to the wall. Bia was looking for a small seahorse she'd seen yesterday when Fred found a male on the wall. I'll call that seahorse "Fred". Bia then found the female on the rock adjacent to the wall. I will call her "Bia". The visibility dropped to 2 metres so we turned around and headed back to The Steps.
We saw 2 weedy seadragons on the way back: A male with eggs (PT2014012601) and the large juvenile (PT2015112401) again. We got back to the boulders, did our safety stop and exited at The Steps. |
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Buddy |
Bia Hoffman, Fred Hoffman, Chris |
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Seas |
Surgy |
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Visibility |
2 to 5 metres |
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Duration |
64 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
12.6 m |
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Average depth |
10.3 m |
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Water temperature |
20.6°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 |
4:19am |
0.45m |
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High |
10:44am |
1.77m |
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Low |
5:14pm |
0.33m |
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High |
11:15pm |
1.40m |
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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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2014012602). 9.9 m.
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Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2014041802). 10.1 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Fred"). 11.3 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Fred"). 11.4 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bia"). 11.3 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bia"). 11.4 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bia"). 11.1 m.
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