Dive Details

Location

Shelly Beach, Manly, NSW,

Date

16 September, 2006

Time

12:46pm - 1:48pm

Details

The aim of the dive was to get photographs of a weedy seadragon. We found 2 or 3.

Buddy

Tim Everest

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10m

Duration

62 minutes

Maximum depth

11.8 m

Average depth

7.4 m

Water temperature

17.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Fort Denison, Sydney, NSW

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

High

3:53am

1.02m

Low

9:04am

0.66m

High

3:50pm

1.47m

Low

11:00pm

0.47m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D70

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF +4 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6807.1

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.55

Strobes

Ikelite SubStrobe DS-50

Ikelite SubStrobe DS-125

Photographs

Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.

Male eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 4.5 m.
 

Male eastern blue groper, A. viridis. 5 m.
 

Female sergeant baker, Aulopus purpurissatus. 6.1 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 7.5 m.
 

Cuttlefish, S. mestus. 7.6 m.
 

Male Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 10.6 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.5 m.
 

Male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, with eggs. 11.6 m.