Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Friday 17 April 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 17 April 2015

Time

10:28am - 12:20pm

Details

Another pygmy hunt at Bare Island. We got in on the northern side of the island and surface swam to almost above the outboard motor. We descended and swam over the outboard motor and over the shelf and along beside the boulders. We followed the sand around to the slope and headed down the slope.

I found a pygmy pipehorse in the area I'd found one of the previous few dives but this was a different one. Kim found one nearby which looks like the one I had seen previously.

We headed further down the slope looking for more pygmies but didn't find any, not even any juveniles. We turned and came back up the slope revisiting the two we'd seen before. One of them had moved across the sand to the metal skeleton of a barrel (or similar).

We followed the sand around doing our safety stop along the way and exited near the ramp.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

111 minutes

Maximum depth

12.3 m

Average depth

8.7 m

Water temperature

20.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

12:37am

0.35m

High

6:48am

1.77m

Low

1:05pm

0.24m

High

7:20pm

1.80m

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.