Dive at The Steps, Kurnell, NSW on 17/8/13

Dive at The Steps, Kurnell, NSW on 17/8/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

17 August, 2013

Time

12:44pm - 2:19pm

Details

Entered at The Steps and went straight down to the sand line amongst the kelp outcrops. Drift towards The Monument on the incoming tide. The current was quite strong and there wasn't much need to kick.

Saw a couple of weedy seadragons along the way. Sheree found "Honey" in the kelp at the base of her usual rock. She was attached to a piece of kelp that itself was not attached. I gently corralled her onto a sponge on the rock so she wouldn't get washed away. Very close to "Honey" was a tiny yellow painted angler that Seb found. Good spotting, Seb!

We drifted further towards The Monument. Both Sheree and I checked out split rock very carefully for seahorses found none. I then drifted to the wall where we have seen "Jaques", "Jill" and "Jackson" but could not find any of them. Above the wall, "Little George", the orange pained angler, was still where we'd seen him last week.

We exited between the corner and the beach, which was a bit of a challenge due to the strong westerly winds blowing up the surface.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Karolyn Landat, Sebastien Landat

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

94 minutes

Maximum depth

13.9 m

Average depth

10.6 m

Water temperature

15.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

4:28am

1.25m

Low

10:12am

0.48m

High

4:53pm

1.73m

Low

11:41pm

0.35m

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.