Andrew Johnstone
Australia
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Nº428
Date: 2012-05-02 - 20:11
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Max Depth: 7.2m Duration: 61mins
Dive Location
- Temp: Surf 19°C Bottom 18°C
- Dive type : Recreational, Night dive, Drift
- Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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Dive buddies:
Anthony Mills,
Blake Crossingham,
Toby Jattke
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Dive Profile
- 1. Air
- 14L Steel 212 → 91 bar
- Average depth: 4.6m
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Species Identified
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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Antennarius commerson (Latreille, 1804) (Big angler)
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Great visibility to start with although that reduced as we headed around to Oak Park.
It was interesting to watch the flathead on the sand flats hunting (ambushing) whitebait... Fascinating and I think I could have spent the entire dive watching this.
We saw brittle starfish and very cool frog fish and the biggest Wobbegong I have seen so far in Sydney.
An enjoyable night dive - will have to do again.