Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 13/1/13

Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 13/1/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

13 January, 2013

Time

8:41am - 9:43am

Details

Usual dive at The Leap. After entering we swam to the sand line and looked for the usual suspects as well as seahorses and anglerfish. The cowrie was no-where to be found at its usual Capnella soft coral colony. We found no seahorses or anglerfish before or on Seahorse Rock. "Bob" was on his usual low rock north of Seahorse Rock. There was still no sign of "Rosie".

We thoroughly checked the large rock where the basket star lives for seahorses but found none.

"Southern Cross", "Richie" and "Kel" were on their usual rock. I did not have a chance to take many photos of them because a very inconsiderate group of divers literally descended on top of me and pushed me out of the way. I had words with them after the dive but I don't think they got the message. They need to understand if someone is there before them they need to wait.

After leaving "Southern Cross" rock, I managed to save a six-spine leatherjacket, Meuschenia freycineti, that was caught on a line from a boat above.

We headed through the sponge covered boulders up from the sand line, again looking for seahorses and anglerfish but found none. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

8-15 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

22.3 m

Average depth

16.6 m

Water temperature

17.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:45am

0.30m

High

10:15am

1.99m

Low

4:52pm

0.12m

High

9:51pm

1.48m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

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.