Dive 446 – Collendina

By pfuller

Mar

Dive Number: 446 03/05/2013 Collendina

Conditions: ?

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 50minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details:

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 418 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 418 09/12/2012 Collendina

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details: A gully of port jackson sharks was the highlight. One looked like he’d just finished munching down on a cray.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 415 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 415 08/12/2012 Collendina

Conditions: Lovely

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 12m

Details: Great Dive..found an awesome little sea cave that was teeming with life. The highlight was a squid that i watched hunting. It had a lunge at a mado and then a small blue-throated wrasse. No luck on either front. Great to watch it change to a clear colouration to blend into the surface when above its prey, and then into a mottled maroon when it was below.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 406 – Collendina Reef

By pfuller

Nov

Dive Number: 406 20/11/2012 Collendina (The Wedge)

Conditions:

Visibilty: 6m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 50minutes

Max Depth: 7m

Details: Not great conditions but always good large critters around this area. A big smoothie, and wobbegongs.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 358 – Collendina Reef

By pfuller

Sep

Dive Number: 358 27/09/12 Collendina

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions: Average

Visibilty: 5m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: ??minutes

Max Depth: 6m

Air usage:

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: Ordinary…surgey with a sand filled water column curteousy of the Barwon River.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 299 – Collendina Reef

By pfuller

Apr

Dive Number: 299 19/04/12 12.23, Collendina Reef

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions:

Visibilty: -m

Water Temp: 17.2c

Bottom Time: 80minutes

Max Depth: 7.9m

Air usage:

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: A surgey dive at Collendina..i couldn’t find any of the critters or areas that made this dive so good a few months ago.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobes

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Dive 240 – Collendina

By pfuller

Jan

Dive Number: 240 02/01/12 ???, Collendina

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions: ???

Visibilty: 2m

Water Temp: 19.6c

Bottom Time: 8minutes

Max Depth: 3.8m

Air usage: ????

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: A surgey, swelly, low vis dive that i called off straight away.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 236 – Christmas Ab Dive

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 236 25/12/11 18.57, Collendina for xmas

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions:

Visibilty: ???

Water Temp: 18.8c

Bottom Time: 96minutes

Max Depth: 6.1m

Air usage: 170bar/2500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: A fresh cray for christmas was the plan even though i’d never caught one before. A mexican standoff ensued…the cray one. Abs for entree.

Camera Details:

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Dive 235 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 235 24/12/11 9.15, Collendina

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions: ???

Visibilty: ??

Water Temp: 18.4c

Bottom Time: 89minutes

Max Depth: 8.0m

Air usage: 170bar/2500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: I promised Chris a wobbegong if he braved the long swim out to the great reef at collendina. The vis had dropped significantly since my previous dives and i was starting to eat my words on the way out. But not long after descent we were onto our first wobby, followed by a second, then a port jacko, then another wobby, and finally a 4th wobby. 4 wobbegongs and a port jacko…you dont get that on no PPB shore dive! Addiction justified..though i felt the run of perfect conditions were coming to an end.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 232 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 232 20/12/11 7.27, Collendina

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions: ???

Visibilty: ??

Water Temp: 17.2c

Bottom Time: 85minutes

Max Depth: 7.4m

Air usage: 170bar/2500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: Another dive at Collendina..an obsession.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 230 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 230 18/12/11 18.57, Collendina

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions: ???

Visibilty: ???

Water Temp: 17.2c

Bottom Time: 116minutes

Max Depth: 8.9m

Air usage: 170bar/2500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: A dive in my lovely little collendina garden. I saw 5 species of ray/shark on this dive, including a wobbegong, a port jacko and a big smooth ray.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 224 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 224 08/12/11 8.23, Collendina2

Wind: ???

Tide: ???

Conditions:

Visibilty: 15m

Water Temp: ???

Bottom Time: 80minutes

Max Depth: ???m

Air usage: 170bar/2500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: Another great dive with immaculate vis. My computer didn’t log this dive details.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 223 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 223 07/12/11 9.30, Collendina

Wind: 10knot northerly

Tide: ???

Conditions: Flat, clean and clear.

Visibilty: 10m+

Water Temp: 18.4c

Bottom Time: 100minutes

Max Depth: 14m

Details: After finding a great spot towards the end of our last dive here, we vlined it out about 400m before descending and explored the great terrain. The area was littered with gullies and overhangs with sparse coverage of kelp but generally fairly barren. The ledges and gullies contained some great sponge life and we reached a depth of 14m at one stage…impressive for a shore dive. A really great dive.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 221 – Collendina

By pfuller

Nov

Dive Number: 221 29/11/11 10.30, Collendina Reef

Wind: 10knot northerly

Tide: ???

Conditions: A run of easterlies and northerlies over the week keeping swell low vis clean.

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: 18.4c

Bottom Time: 80minutes

Max Depth: 9.2m

Details: An explore dive around collendina with Phil. About 400m out it started to get really interesting, and we came across some great terrain. Air was getting low though so we had to head back to shore.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 214 – Collendina Reef

By pfuller

Nov

Dive Number: 214 08/11/11 18.25, Collendina Reef

Wind: 10knot northerly

Tide: ???

Conditions:

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: 16.0c

Bottom Time: 69minutes

Max Depth: 5.0m

Details: I couldn’t wiat to get back into Collendia after my last dive there and explore more of the area while the going was good. I left this dive a little bit late and ended up staying till well after dark.. it felt a bit “sharky”! I came across a very cool Maori Octopus just cruising along hunting. But then i came along and spoilt his fun and it went into camo mode. He tried every trick in his book to try to hide from me, but after a while, decided it was best just to take off.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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Dive 213 – Collendina

By pfuller

Nov

Dive Number: 213 07/11/11 13.29, Collendina

Wind: 10knot northerly

Tide: ???

Conditions:

Visibilty: 6-8m

Water Temp: 16.0c

Bottom Time: 91minutes

Max Depth: 6.3m

Details: First ever dive along this stretch of coastline due to nice flat conditions. Nice terrain, but not much around at first, until i found a nice little caves teeming with fish, including this fish with reddish colouration i’d never come across before.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes

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