Dive Details

Location

The Leap, Kurnell, NSW

Date

06 October, 2012

Time

10:31am - 11:18am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at The Leap and after a number of hassles at the start, we headed down to the sand line. Even though we appeared to be heading straight out, we ended up much farther south than usual and hit the sand line in the middle of the wall. As we dropped over the wall a Port Jackson shark swam by. Sheree also saw a turtle. We followed the wall north and came across a couple of basket stars on a sponge. We kept pushing north towards Seahorse Rock, finding a small anglerfish on the way. At Seahorse Rock we only had time to find two of the three ("Bob" and "Golden Girl") and then had to head for shallower water due to a couple of us being low on air. Exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Gary and Alison.

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

42 minutes

Maximum depth

22.1 m

Average depth

14.3 m

Water temperature

15.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bat AEST

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

Low

5:17am

0.60m

High

11:49am

1.50m

Low

6:32pm

0.56m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 21 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 21 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 21.5 m.
 

Anglerfish, Antennarius. 21 m.
 

Anglerfish, Antennarius. 21.1 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 21.2 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Bob"). 21.2 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Golden Girl"). 20.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 20.8 m.