Dive Details

Location

Date

21 May, 2011

Time

11:21am - 12:29pm

Details

Entered at the boat ramp as usual and headed down the wall. Spent most of the dive out on the bommies.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-8 Metres

Duration

68 minutes

Maximum depth

16.2 m

Average depth

11.8 m

Water temperature

17.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

5:29am

0.36m

High

11:27am

1.31m

Low

4:54pm

0.63m

High

11:24pm

1.78m

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.

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 12.8 m.
 

Juvenile blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 15.2 m.
 

Painted stinkfish, Eocallionymus papilio. 15.5 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 14.2 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 14.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 13.9 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 14 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 13.8 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 14 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.9 m.
 

Eye of a spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 12.6 m.
 

Spot of a spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 12.5 m.
 

Fortesque, Centropogon australis. 12.8 m.
 

Sea star, Anthenea sidneyensis. 12.2 m.
 

Eye of a red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 4.2 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 4.2 m.