Dive Details

Location

Date

16 July, 2011

Time

10:23am - 11:24am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

While on the beach getting ready to enter the water we were treated to a display by a pod of dolphins playing in the bay. They came quite close to shore and were still playing when we started the dive. Unfortunately, we did not see them while under water.

We started from the beach as usual and headed out to the reef in the middle of the bay. After swimming around the reef for 15 minutes or so we headed north across the sand until we hit the rocky reef along the shore. We followed the shore reef north and then returned along it. On the way back a huge bull ray swam past.

Buddy

Frank

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3-8 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

6.5 m

Average depth

4.4 m

Water temperature

16.3°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

3:04am

0.28m

High

9:00am

1.37m

Low

2:35pm

0.46m

High

9:06pm

1.83m

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.

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.4 m.
 

Feeding mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5 m.
 

Spotted grubfish, Parapercis ramsayi. 4.5 m.
 

Spotted grubfish, Parapercis ramsayi. 4.6 m.
 

Spotted grubfish, Parapercis ramsayi. 4.5 m.