Dive Details

Location

Date

31 October, 2010

Time

11:41am - 12:50pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

It was too rough around the corner for The Leap, The Steps and even the normal Monument entry, so we went straight out from the monument and followed the channel down to the outer reef. We followed the outer reef to the east until half tank and returned.

Buddy

Wendy

Seas

Wind chop

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

10.9 m

Average depth

7.5 m

Water temperature

15.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay (AEDT)

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

High

3:29am

1.21m

Low

9:02am

0.62m

High

3:30pm

1.56m

Low

10:20pm

0.37m

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.

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 9.3 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8.2 m.
 

Stony coral, Balanophyllia sp. 9.4 m.
 

Stony coral, Balanophyllia sp. 9.3 m.
 

Stony coral, Balanophyllia sp. 9.1 m.
 

Stony corals, Balanophyllia sp. 8.9 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 9.4 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 8.6 m.
 

Sabellid tube worm. 9.3 m.
 

Soft coral colony. 10.1 m.
 

Eye of a stingaree. 6m
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 4.5 m.
 

Cephalopod eggs. 3.2 m.
 

Leech, probably on a numbray burried in the sand. 2.6 m.