Dive Details
Location
Date
20 March, 2010
Time
10:24am - 11:30am
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at The Monument and headed along the sand line south east towards The Steps. Turned at 150 bar and made way back along the rocks right around the corner to almost the beach.
Buddy
Melissa
Seas
Flat
Visibility
3 to 5 metres
Duration
65 minutes
Maximum depth
12.8 m
Average depth
9.4 m
Water temperature
18.9°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx
Tides at Botany Bay AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
6:01am
0.46m
High
12:00pm
1.34m
Low
5:49pm
0.52m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D300
Lens
Tokina AT-X Pro Fisheye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5
Housing
Ikelite 6812.3
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.15 (without shade)
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.
Sponges. 11.5m
Tubeworm colony, probably Filograna implexa. 11.4 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.9 m.
Dendrophylliid coral. 11.1 m.
Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.5 m.
Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.6 m.
Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.7 m.
Sea anemones, Anthothoe albocincta. 11.1 m.
Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.1 m.
Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 8.9 m.
Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 9.1 m.
Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 9.1 m.
Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 9.2 m.
Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 9.2 m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 12.2 m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 12.2 m.
Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 12.5 m.