Dive Details

Location

Date

03 January, 2010

Time

10:31am - 11:45am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at usual spot and headed south and west. As we got in some time before the turn of the tide and because it was such a high tide, the current was quite strong. We stayed shallow and drifted a long way around the corner. We turned at around 30 minutes and came back slowly with almost no current.

Buddy

George

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

73 minutes

Maximum depth

15.3 m

Average depth

7.8 m

Water temperature

21.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:29am

0.33m

High

11:00am

2.01m

Low

5:42pm

0.11m

High

11:44pm

1.42m

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.

Ring-scale three-fin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 6.1 m.
 

Goby. 6.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.8 m.
 

Sabellid tube worm. 7.6 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 6.6 m.
 

Hermit crab. 5.8 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 6.8 m.
 

Hermit crab. 6.6 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 5.3 m.
 

Hermit crab. 5.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
 

Sea slug, Umbraculum umbraculum. 8.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 8.7 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 10.6 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.8 m.
 

Estuary catfish, Cnidoglanis macrocephala. 13.2 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 13 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 13 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 13 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 14.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne, 14.7 m.