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Dive number	Date	Site	Location	Area	Country	Wreck	Freshwater	Depth (m)	Bottom time (min)	Total time (min)	Divers	Quality	Summary	Equipment
491	26 Oct 1996	The Pinnacles, Avalon	North of Avalon Beach	Sydney	Australia			19	40	40	Iain Hosking, Andrew Kennedy		Used Atlantis Divers again. Left Faulconbridge 7.30 and had plenty of time before the boat left Palm Beach at 9. The trip out wasn't as rough as that to the Valiant and the headland gave the site some shelter from the southerly. The site is noted for sea dragons and I concentrated on the weed where the rock met the sand until one materialised in front of me. He was quite long - about 12 inches - and I know it was a male because he was carrying eggs, maybe 2 or 3 dozen, each a few mm in diameter, stuck to his belly. He was a 'common' sea dragon (not that common - I haven't seen one in five years, not since Jervis Bay in November 1991) and he didn't move much, obviously believing that camouflage was his best means of defence. Other sights on the dive - Andrew found a small cuttlefish, asleep under an overhang, and the prolific fish life included two porcupinefish (or globe fish), black reef leatherjacket, old wives, roughy, morwong, sergeant baker, blue groper and scalyfin.	Wet suit, 82, Arctic

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491

26 Oct 1996

The Pinnacles, Avalon

North of Avalon Beach

Sydney

Australia

Iain Hosking, Andrew Kennedy

Used Atlantis Divers again. Left Faulconbridge 7.30 and had plenty of time before the boat left Palm Beach at 9. The trip out wasn't as rough as that to the Valiant and the headland gave the site some shelter from the southerly. The site is noted for sea dragons and I concentrated on the weed where the rock met the sand until one materialised in front of me. He was quite long - about 12 inches - and I know it was a male because he was carrying eggs, maybe 2 or 3 dozen, each a few mm in diameter, stuck to his belly. He was a 'common' sea dragon (not that common - I haven't seen one in five years, not since Jervis Bay in November 1991) and he didn't move much, obviously believing that camouflage was his best means of defence. Other sights on the dive - Andrew found a small cuttlefish, asleep under an overhang, and the prolific fish life included two porcupinefish (or globe fish), black reef leatherjacket, old wives, roughy, morwong, sergeant baker, blue groper and scalyfin.

Wet suit, 82, Arctic