Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 28/9/13

Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 28/9/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

28 September, 2013

Time

10:25am - 11:27am

Details

We had our fingers crossed that the conditions had improved from the previous day when the visibility never got over 3 metres. It looked OK from the top of the stairs and was still good once we hit the water. As we descended we could see it was much better. There was still a lot of particulate matter in the water and even more on the bottom just waiting to get stirred up if we weren't careful. By the time we got to the sand line, the visibility was as much as 8 metres but only 5 metres in places.

We hit the sand line in the usual spot and headed towards The Steps. Behind Seahorse Rock we found "Rosie", "Bob" and "Kel". There were each pretty much in the same locations on their rock as they had been the previous week.

We then headed towards "Southern Cross" finding a reaper cuttlefish along the way. We found "Southern Cross", "Richie" and "Pierre" on their usual rock. "Richie" had a clingfish on him. I didn't notice at the time but did once I looked at the photographs. I guess seahorses have to be cleaned, too.

We kept going towards The Steps along the sand line. The visibility ahead looked worse but as we got there it was not as bad as it looked. It was better than it had been on both dives on the previous day. The Miamira magnifica nudibranch was still in the same approximate location it had been the previous day. We were quite pleased that we'd made it that far even after stopping at the seahorses.

From here we headed to the rocks for our safety stop and exited at The Steps. The exit was quite easy, the walk up the stairs not so.

Buddy

Graeme Heard

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

21.4 m

Average depth

14.2 m

Water temperature

15.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

2:44am

1.10m

Low

8:20am

0.71m

High

2:55pm

1.40m

Low

9:49pm

0.59m

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.