Dive Details

Location

Date

18 December, 2010

Time

11:41am - 12:42pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered the water in the small protected bay and swam out between the rocks. We then found the channel and followed it out to the large overhang ("arch") and beyond, turning at 100 bar.

Buddy

George B.

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

11.7 m

Average depth

6.7 m

Water temperature

19.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

12:08am

0.52m

High

6:45am

1.58m

Low

1:27pm

0.51m

High

7:11pm

1.22m

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.

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 5.7 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 5.7 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 5.4 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 6.1 m.
 

Stony coral, Culicia sp., colony. 6.9 m.
 

Corallimorphs. 6.4 m.
 

Sea star. 10 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8.8 m.
 

Sea star, Asterodiscides truncatus. 7.9 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.3 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 6.4 m.