Dive Details

Location

Date

27 March, 2009

Time

8:02pm - 9:11pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Swam out to the outside pool and went clockwise around the nets Then swam around the middle of the pool.

Buddy

George

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3 metres

Duration

67 minutes

Maximum depth

5.6 m

Average depth

3.8 m

Water temperature

19.1°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

3:23am

0.36m

High

9:30am

1.61m

Low

3:39pm

0.33m

High

9:53pm

1.71m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D +4 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.

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 4.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 4.3 m.
 

Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 5.5 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 5.2 m.
 

Bivalve. 5.2 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 5.2 m.
 

Eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae. 5.3 m.
 

Eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae. 5.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.3 m.
 

Zoanthid. 5.1 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 5.5 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 5.6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 5.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon, with prey. 4.9 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon, pursuing prey. 4.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.7 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.2 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 2.9 m.
 

Sand anemone, Pachycerianthus longistriatus. 3.3 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.8 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.8 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.8 m.
 

Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 2.7 m.