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  • Nº8 # Date: 2008-10-26 - 10:00
  • # Max Depth: 10m Duration: 50mins
Diver's Notes

Shelly beach is a well known Sydney dive spot and is regularly used by the Manly dive shops for training. It is also a nature reserve. As it is a shallow beach dive safety stops aren't needed on surfacing.

Used up pretty much all my air and practiced buddy breathing whilst swimming to shore.

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  • Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 17°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Shore
  • Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 12 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     200 → 20 bar
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  • Average depth: 6.7m
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Species Identified

Achoerodus viridis (Steindachner, 1866) (Wrasse) Found in coastal rocky areas at depths to about 40 m . Max. length for female species . Protogynous hermaphrodite .
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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