Dive Details

Location

Date

28 August, 2009

Time

7:23pm - 8:11pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the boat ramp and headed west. We didn't go very far and mostly stayed around the sand.

The housing leaked again.

Buddy

George

Seas

Flast

Visibility

3 metres

Duration

48 minutes

Maximum depth

8.1 m

Average depth

4.3 m

Water temperature

14.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

2:02am

1.06m

Low

7:40am

0.66m

High

2:33pm

1.46m

Low

9:41pm

0.63m

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetrictus. 3.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetrictus. 3.2 m.
 

Anemone. 3.5 m.
 

Sea pen, Cavernularia obesa. 5.9 m.
 

Flathead. 6 m.
 

Fortescue, Centropogon australis. 7.6 m.
 

Goatfish. 7.6 m.
 

Fortescue, Centropogon australis. 8 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 4.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetrictus. 4.1 m.
 

Sea anemone, Anthothoe albocincta. 3.8 m.
 

Sea pen, Cavernularia obesa. 3.9 m.
 

Brittle star. 3.5 m.