Dive Details
Location
Date
31 July, 2010
Time
10:46am - 11:53am
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at usual bay, headed down to the sand line and followed the sand line south east. Turned at around 120 bar and headed back over the rock rubble. Exited between the entry point and the beach.
Buddy
Dishi Da Silva
Seas
Flat
Visibility
10 metres
Duration
63 minutes
Maximum depth
13.0 m
Average depth
9.3 m
Water temperature
15.4°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
5:15am
0.44m
High
11:31am
1.41m
Low
5:21pm
0.62m
High
11:25pm
1.45m
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.
Half-banded seaperch, Hypolectrodes maccullochi. 12.1 m.
Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 12.4 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.4 m.
Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 9.5 m.
Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 9.4 m.
Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 9.4 m.
Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 9.8 m.
Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 9.9 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 10.5 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 10.5 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 12 m.
Dendrophylliid stony coral. 12.4 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 10.7m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 10.7 m.