Dive Details |
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Location |
Chowder Bay, Clifton Gardens, NSW |
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Date |
Sunday 7 February 2016 |
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Time |
8:09am - 9:50am |
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Details |
The seas around Sydney were rough so I dived at Clifton Gardens. It was a while since I'd dived here.
I got in from the beach next to the next and swam out under the pier. I continued under the pier and swimming from one side of the pier to the other looking for interesting critters. I found a yellowish striped angler to the west of the pier and a black one to the south of the pier in the deeper water.
I came back up the slope to the pier again and by this time there were other divers stirring up the bottom :(. One did point out another angler so I can't complain.
I swam back under the pier to the beach where I got out. |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
2 to 3 metres |
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Duration |
100 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
11.2 m |
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Average depth |
6.7 m |
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Water temperature |
23.1°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
1:37am |
0.46m |
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High |
8:08am |
1.79m |
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Low |
2:45pm |
0.30m |
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High |
8:41pm |
1.43m |
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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Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 2.1 m.
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Nudibranch, Polycera capensis. 4.3 m.
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Nudibranch, Polycera capensis. 7.1 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.6 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 6.1 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.4 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
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Male eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae, with eggs in his mouth. 7 m.
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Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 8.4 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 10.8 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 10.7 m.
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Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 10 m.
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Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 10 m.
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Blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus. 8.3 m.
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Nudibranch, Polycera capensis. 7.8 m.
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Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.2 m.
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Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.1 m.
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Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7 m.
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Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 7.3 m.
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Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 6.8 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.2 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.2 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.2 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.6 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.6 m.
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