Dive Details

Location

Date

15 November, 2009

Time

10:13am - 11:09am

Details

Entered water at the beach, swam along the wall and out to look for weedy seadragons. We didn't find any seadragons and there was a lot of red weed in the area.

The whole area was full of divers - far too many - which ruined the dive.

Buddy

Colin Keene/Oliver Hoffman

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

55 minutes

Maximum depth

13.1 m

Average depth

7.7 m

Water temperature

17.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

Low

1:17am

0.36m

High

7:46am

1.72m

Low

2:18pm

0.32m

Low

8:12pm

1.37m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 3.4 m.
 

Rainbow cale, Odax acroptilus. 7.8 m.