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  • Nº493 # Date: 2013-04-24 - 19:58
  • # Max Depth: 13.6m Duration: 87mins
Diver's Notes

I love this dive site at night... 87mins and the only reason to surface was lack of air...

My first night time Weedy Seadragon... could have watched it for hours. A huge Wobbegong well and truly under a ledge. A number of very large tube anemone - I could also watch them feed for hours. So very cool the way the long tentacles feed the small inner tentacles - and all without eyes. Too many awesome little critters to mention.


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  • Temp: Surf 18°C Bottom 17°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Night dive
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • 1. Air
  • 14L Steel     241 → 47 bar
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  • Average depth: 10.9m
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Species Identified

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (Lacepède, 1804) (common sea dragon) These fish are slow-moving and rely on their camouflage as protection against predation; they drift in the water and with the leaf-like appendages resemble the swaying seaweed of their habitat . Individuals are observed ei...
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Allomycterus pilatus Whitley, 1931 (Deepwater burrfish) A deepwater species found on the continental shelf. Capable of inflating its body by sucking in air or water and easily gets entangled in nets .
Batrachomoeus dubius (White, 1790) (Frogfish) Inhabits the continental shelf. Also found in inshore waters .
Cerianthus filiformis Carlgren, 1893
Ophionereis reticulata (Say, 1825) (reticulated brittle star)
Orectolobus maculatus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Wobbegong) The sluggish spotted wobbegong spends much of its day lying motionless on the bottom or hidden in caves, under overhangs or in shipwrecks. At night, the shark becomes more active, and swims, or moves about the sea floor, ...
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Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829 (orange cup coral) azooxanthellate
Cyclocoeloma tuberculata Miers, 1880 (decorator crab)
Octopus pallidus Hoyle, 1885 (Octopus)
Goniistius fuscus (Castelnau, 1879) (Red morwong) Adults found on exposed rocky reefs down to about 30 m; juveniles on coastal reefs, amongst algae.
Sepia apama Gray, 1849 (Australian giant cuttlefish)

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