Dive Details

Location

Date

28 August, 2010

Time

10:24am - 11:16am

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 140 bar.

Buddy

Dave Merry

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

52 minutes

Maximum depth

15.4 m

Average depth

8.8 m

Water temperature

14.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:01am

0.38m

High

10:15am

1.49m

Low

4:16pm

0.48m

High

10:21pm

1.46m

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.

Ascidian colony, Clavelina sp. 5.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.4 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 12.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.2 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 6.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.7 m.
 

Sea anemone, Phylctenanthus australis. 9.6 m.