Dive Details

Location

Date

05 December, 2008

Time

7:52pm - 9:08pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered to the east of the bridge on the mainland side then headed south around the eastern side of the island, turned around and came back.

Buddy

Anthony

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

76 minutes

Maximum depth

9.1 m

Average depth

7.0 m

Water temperature

18.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

High

2:11am

1.20m

Low

7:39am

0.69m

High

1:57pm

1.45m

Low

8:40pm

0.46m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS125

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.

Sponge. 8.3 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8.9 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.8 m.
 

Soft coral. 7.5 m.
 

Sea urchin, Tripneustes gratilla. 6.9 m.
 

Slate-pencil urchin, Phyllacanthus parvispinus. 8.9 m.
 

Sea urchin, Holopneustes sp. 8.4 m.
 

Feather star, Cenolia trichoptera., under a stony coral. 8.5 m.
 

Feather duster worm. 7.6 m.
 

Sponge. 7.8 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 8.2 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 8.3 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 6.2 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 6.1 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 6.1 m.