Dive Details |
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Location |
The Steps, Kurnell, NSW |
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Date |
Sunday 6 March 2016 |
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Time |
8:53am - 10:01am |
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Details |
It looked quite calm at The Steps when I arrived and was still that way when I made my way down to get in. I jumped in and descended to the sand line to discover poor visibility (3 metres at best), a lot of surge and cold water (around 17°C). I turned left and headed towards The Monument.
It was tough going heading into the outgoing tide. I swam along the sand line and encountered two weedy seadragons (PT2013121501 & PT2014012602), both missing their first head appendages.
I arrived at the rock with the seahorses and found "Deborah" first low down on the main rock. I then found "Michael" low down at the left end of the rock in a gap between the main rock and a smaller rock. I looked around the rock to the right and found "Charlie" in the sponges towards the back of the rock. I finally found "Duncan" on the top of the same rock.
I continued on towards The Monument and stopped at the wall to look for the other seahorses. I spent a long time looking all around the area but could not find any seahorses.
If conditions had been better I would have kept going to The Monument to look for the small red-fingered angler I'd found last week. Instead I turned and headed back to The Steps.
I stopped at the seahorses on the way back and saw another weedy seadragon (PT2014012601) at the sand line.
Between the seahorses and The Steps I saw one of the earlier weedies again. I started my safety stop as I approached the exit and when I finished it I got out at The Steps. |
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Seas |
Surgy |
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Visibility |
2 to 5 metres |
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Duration |
67 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
12.3 m |
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Average depth |
10.3 m |
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Water temperature |
16.9°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 |
12:26am |
0.55m |
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High |
6:55am |
1.68m |
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Low |
1:33pm |
0.38m |
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High |
7:32pm |
1.40m |
Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D300 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6812.3 |
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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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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Michael"). 11.3 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Charlie"). 11.1 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Charlie"). 11.1 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Deborah"). 10.6 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Duncan"). 11.1 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Duncan"). 10.5 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, (""). 11.8 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, (""). 11.1 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"). 11.5 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11.7 m.
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