Dive at The Steps, Kurnell, NSW on 5 July 2014

Dive Details

Location

Date

5 July 2014

Time

12:13pm - 1:35pm

Details

I entered at The Steps and descended to the sand line. I turned to the right and swam around and over all the kelp and algal covered rocks near the sand line in search of "Big John", the orange form undescribed angler. Despite my intense search I did not find it.

I followed the sand line looking at the rocks for anglers, pygmy pipehorses and whatever else I might find. When I got to Big Rock I checked it out for pygmy pipehorses and then went to the reef above it where I found a medium sized giant cuttlefish who was let me get very close. After playing with the cuttlefish for a while I started heading back towards The Steps on top of the reef.

As I got closer to The Steps I looked more and more closely for "Big John". I had almost given up hope in finding that angler until I spotted it on the side of a rock. Mission accomplished. Once you see them you wonder how you could ever miss them.

I headed straight to the boulders, ascended to 5 metres and did my safety stop before exiting at The Steps.

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15 metres

Duration

82 minutes

Maximum depth

15.7 m

Average depth

11.2 m

Water temperature

17.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

12:58am

1.44m

Low

7:32am

0.55m

High

2:00pm

1.41m

Low

7:58pm

0.77m

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.