Relaxing on the sea floor.
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| Date: | 2004-04-11 | Location: | Nepean Bay |
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| Weather: | Fine | Dive Number: | 18 |
| Sea Conditions: | Calm | Visibility: | 3m |
| Dived From: | Dive Victoria Boat | Weights: | 12kg |
| Time In: | 14:49 | Time Out: | 15:31 |
| Depth: | 7m | ABT: | 42 minutes |
| Start Group: | B | Residual N2: | 25 minutes |
| End Group: | D | TBT: | 67 minutes |
Relaxing on the sea floor.
One of the unfortunate side-effects of diving in and around the bay is that you need to compete for your dive sites. Shipping, poor weather, and other factors can result in a dive being rescheduled while you're in-transit. Usually this is okay, since the alternate dive-sites are quite good, but it's sometimes annoying when you try to dive a site multiple times without succees.
Rescheduling resulted in us not heading to where we had planned, but instead to Nepean Bay marine park. Marine parks are usually pretty good. They're protected, and so fish and other wildlife abound. However this wasn't our most impressive dive of all time. The visibility was poor, the water shallow, and the swell resulting in divers being dragged back-and-forth beneath the waves.
I'm sure that on a good day Nepean Bay is quite scenic, but we couldn't see much of anything under the water. Certainly it would appear that any fish that were normally about were instead sheltering from the poor conditions.
After a while we decided to have fun with the underwater camera and do a few poses underwater. This kept us entertained for a little while, although the camera wasn't eager to provide us with much battery life.
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