Dive Details

Location

Date

02 October, 2011

Time

10:11am - 11:07am

Details

Headed west and down a gutter with a high wall. There were lots of interesting organisms on the wall.

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

A bit surgy

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

56 minutes

Maximum depth

17.8 m

Average depth

11.4 m

Water temperature

18.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Yamba AEDT

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

High

12:07am

1.18m

Low

5:59am

0.27m

High

12:54pm

1.57m

Low

7:34pm

0.33m

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.

Pygmy rockcod, Scorpaenodes scaber. 15.1 m.
 

Sea star, Ophidiaster confertus. 14 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 13.5 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 15.5 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 15.5 m.
 

Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus. 15.8 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 16 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 15.4 m.
 

Stony coral, Tubastraea sp. 17.2 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 13.8 m.
 

Red rockcod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 10.2 m.
 

Bubble-tip anemone, Entacmaea quadricolor. 8.1 m.
 

Bubble-tip anemone, Entacmaea quadricolor. 8.4 m.
 

Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 7.2 m.
 

Ornate wobbegong, Orectolobus ornatus. 7 m.
 

Ornate wobbegong, Orectolobus ornatus. 4.7 m.