Dive Details

Location

Date

08 January, 2011

Time

11:20am - 12:24pm

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

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3-10 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

15.1 m

Average depth

10.3 m

Water temperature

21.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bat AEDT

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

Low

5:11am

0.53m

High

11:36am

1.65m

Low

6:12pm

0.39m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

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.

Large (and old) green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13.9 m.
 

Crab. 13.2 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.1 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13.5 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 14.7 m.
 

Ring-scale threefish, Enneapterygius annulatus. 12.8 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 12.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 12.6 m.
 

Hermit crab. 12.6 m.
 

Fortesque, Centropogon australis. 13.1 m.
 

Smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 8.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 6.9 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 7.3 m.
 

Hermit crab. 6.3 m.