Feb
25
Snorkel at Popes Eye 25/02/2012 13.30
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: m
Water Temp: 20c
Bottom Time: 30minutes
Max Depth: 2m
Details: After the torpedo reef dive we popped over to popes eye just to chill out. I tried some under over shots of the gannets.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
25
Dive Number: 272 25/02/12 11.30, Torpedo Reef, Shortlands Bluff
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: 20c
Bottom Time: 57minutes
Max Depth: 18.1m
Details: This was a cracker of a dive site. Lush seafans and sea pens, with species i’d never seen before. The site lay about a 1km off Shortlands Bluff in an area roughly know as Torpedo reef. Harry skippered the boat, while me and chris dived. Thanks Harry! We dropped in on a cuttlefish and weaved our way through scattered bommie covered in colourful sponge life. Chris came across a large admiralty anchor..one of many apparently scattered in the area. We stopped off at Pope’s Eye afterwards and i tried some under-over shots of the gannets.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
24
Dive Number: 271 24/02/12 18.30, Near Joanna Wreck Area
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???m
Water Temp: 22c
Bottom Time: 29minutes
Max Depth: 3.2m
Details: We went out off St Leonards and followed some wreck marks i had in the gps to the joanna wreck.
A sign warned it was a protected area and diving by permit only, so just had a dive nearby on the seagrass beds. The area is very current affected and the dive was kept short. Plenty of flathead around.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
22
Dive Number: 270 22/02/12 15.30, Old Yarra St Pier, Geelong
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: 22c
Bottom Time: 49minutes
Max Depth: 5.4m
Details: I’d walked past the old pylons marking the start of the old yarra pier and often wondered if there was anything remaining of the pier or what old bits and pieces might be lying in the mud. So i gave it a quick dive but vis went to zero in the deeper sections. So i just stayed in the shallows where the water was clearer. A sparsely spotted ray lay in the seagrass, and i was suprised to see a kelpfish in the rock wall…a species i always associated with swell affected areas.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
21
Snorkel at Curlewis 21/02/2012 18.30
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???m
Water Temp: ???c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: A snorkel at Curlewis to look for nudi’s. There were heaps of these philnopsis lineolata nudis around.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
17
Dive Number: 269 17/02/12 11.14, Cottage by the Sea
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???m
Water Temp: 20c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 8m
Details: An explore dive out the back of cottage.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
9
Snorkel at Pt Lonsdale 09/02/2012 19.00
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???m
Water Temp: ???c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 1m
Details: Nudi snorkel at Point lonsdale rockpools. Not many around, so i did some purple wrasse and thornfish portraits.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
9
Dive Number: 268 09/02/2012 18.54, St Leonards Pier
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???m
Water Temp: 22c
Bottom Time: ??minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: A small pink swimming anemone was the most interesting critter on this dive…i’d never seen one before. I had a small leak in the housing so aborted the dive early.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm, SS200 Strobes
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Feb
4
Dive Number: 267 04/02/12 10.46, Portsea Hole
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: ???m
Water Temp: 22c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 20m
Air usage: ???
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: First slack dive from the boat with Chris and Phil and my old man as surface support.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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