Dive Details

Location

Date

01 May, 2010

Time

10:15am - 11:14am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the boat ramp as usual and drifted with the incoming tide up the reef, turning around at around 100 bar.

Buddy

Melissa and Harry

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

58 minutes

Maximum depth

15.3 m

Average depth

9.8 m

Water temperature

19.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Dension)

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

Low

4:22am

0.36m

High

10:19am

1.34m

Low

3:48pm

0.58m

High

10:22pm

1.81m

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.

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 12.6 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 12.6 m.
 

Sieve-patterned moray, Gymnothorax cribroris. 12 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.3 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 10.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.1 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris at Shiprock. 8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.3 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris at Shiprock. 9.9 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 3.9 m.