Dive Details

Location

Date

12 February, 2010

Time

7:34pm - 8:47pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered on northern side, west of bridge, and headed east then south around the island. Visibility improved but temperature dropped as we headed around the island.

Buddy

Lock

Seas

Flat

Visibility

2-8 metres

Duration

71 minutes

Maximum depth

9.9 m

Average depth

6.5 m

Water temperature

17.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:46am

0.54m

High

8:19am

1.64m

Low

2:46pm

0.40m

High

8:49pm

1.29m

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 3.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 3.4 m.
 

Stingaree. 5.2 m.
 

Stingaree. 5.2 m.
 

Ascidian colony, Polycitor giganteus. 9 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.5 m.
 

Red brick sea star macro, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.9 m.
 

Underside of red brick sea star macro, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.9 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 9.1 m.
 

Sea urchin. 9.4 m.
 

Sabellid worm. 9.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 8.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 9.5 m.
 

Stony corals, Culicia. sp. 7.7 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 9.5 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 9.5 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 9.7 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 9.6 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 9.6 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 9.3 m.
 

Sea anemone, Anthothoe albocincta. 9.2 m.
 

Parasitic isopod and leeches on a numbfish, Hypnos monopterygium. 9.2 m.
 

Stingaree. 9.3 m.
 

Eye of a stingaree. 9.5 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 9.1 m.
 

Chiton. 5.4 m.