Dive at The Steps, Kurnell, NSW on 22/12/13

Dive Details

Location

Date

22 December, 2013

Time

10:53am - 12:12pm

Details

We jumped in at The Steps, descended to the sand line and headed towards The Leap. We had a really good look for "Little Andrew", the orange painted angler, and "Big John", the orange form undescribed angler. I couldn't find "Little Andrew" but I did find "Big John" on a rock a bit higher and a bit towards The Leap.

I headed on towards The Leap. At the gap in the rocks, I headed up from the sand line to look for "Robin", the yellow painted angler. I searched the area but could not find it. I did find an octopus and saw the resident basket star nearby.

I headed back to the sand line and continued on towards The Leap and caught up with Sheree along the way. I found a tiny yellow boxfish and Sheree found a velvetfish. We spent a lot of time at Big Rock looking for pygmy pipehorses but didn't find any.

We went on a bit further towards The Leap to look for "Dana", the red painted angler but couldn't find it. We turned and headed back towards The Steps. I stopped at "Big John" on the way back, to make sure I could find it and then immediately ascended to 5 metres to do my safety stop. I exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

78 minutes

Maximum depth

15.7 m

Average depth

12.1 m

Water temperature

19.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:06pm

1.29m

Low

5:41am

0.59m

High

12:02pm

1.62m

Low

6:41pm

0.43m

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.