Dive Details

Location

Date

13 April, 2009

Time

10:27am - 11:06am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Jumped in at The Leap and drifted towards The Steps. Unfortunately, my tank was leaking (from the O ring between the valve and the tank) and I started the dive with only 160 bar. I had to surface some 50-100 metres before The Steps.

Buddy

Gary

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

10

Duration

38 minutes

Maximum depth

21.3 m

Average depth

13.9 m

Water temperature

18.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

4:48am

0.46m

High

10:43am

1.28m

Low

4:12pm

0.61m

High

10:46pm

1.67m

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.

Ascidian, Clavelina meridionalis. 14.2 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 21.1 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 20.6 m.
 

Notospid, Tylodina corticalis. 20.7 m.
 

Notospid, Tylodina corticalis. 20.5 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 18.8 m.
 

Ascidians, possibly Botrylloides magnicoecum. 14.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 15.8 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 15.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 15.7 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 15.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 16.6 m.