Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on Sunday 13 March 2016

Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 13 March 2016

Time

1:17pm - 2:38pm

Details

For our second dive we did The Monument. We got in at the bay just around the corner from the flag poles, descended and swam to the sponge garden. We headed towards the start of the wall on the sand line and then headed along the wall towards The Steps.

Along the wall we found "Bia" in orange sponge in the gap and "Christopher" was a little further along in the gap. We looked around the area for "Fred" but couldn't find him.

We swam on to Block Rock and found the other four seahorses: "Michael", "Deborah", "Charlie" and "Duncan". We turned and headed back towards The Monument.

We spotted on the wall again for another look for "Fred" without success, before swimming past the wall and on to the reef at The Monument. We had a look for "Heather", the seahorse that Noel pointed out 3 weeks ago but couldn't find her. Mike left me at this point.

I continued on to the slope to look for "Kris", the orange-red-fingered angler I'd spotted 3 weeks ago. I was able to find "Kris" without much trouble. I then ascended to the shallow wall and followed it around doing my safety stop before exiting on the rocks before the flag poles.

Buddy

Mike Scotland

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

80 minutes

Maximum depth

13.3 m

Average depth

10.0 m

Water temperature

18.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:14am

1.77m

Low

6:34am

0.31m

High

12:42pm

1.57m

Low

6:45pm

0.40m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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.