Dive Details

Location

Date

13 March, 2010

Time

10:34am - 11:26am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered water on north-western corner of island and planned to head to the south wall. Visibility was poor I got ahead and separated from Wayne and Graham. I swam back to where I had last seen them and surfaced. I waited on the surface for 3-5 minutes. They didn't surface so I assumed (wrongly) that they'd continued on the dive and went on the dive as planned, hoping to bump into them. They surfaced after me and waited for at least 10 minutes.

I continued to the south wall stayed for a while and then returned to the boat ramp.

Buddy

Wayne and Graham (for a short while)

Seas

Slight

Visibility

1-4 metres

Duration

46 minutes

Maximum depth

18.2 m

Average depth

10.4 m

Water temperature

20.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

Low

1:25am

0.57m

High

7:45am

1.57m

Low

2:15pm

0.42m

High

8:17pm

1.38m

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.

Sea pen. 13.1 m.
 

Sea star. 17.5 m.
 

Dendrophylliid coral colony. 17.8 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 17.2 m
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 17.8 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 12.7 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 12.7 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 12.7 m.