Dive Details

Location

Date

08 July, 2011

Time

7:36pm - 8:37pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the beach and headed north along the rock line. Turned at around 30 minutes.

The visibility was very good and this may have been the first dive I have seen 3 species of cuttlefish on the one dive.

Buddy

Stan Bow

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

6.0 m

Average depth

3.3 m

Water temperature

15.1°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.

High

1:02am

1.53m

Low

7:29am

0.39m

High

1:57pm

1.54m

Low

8:08pm

0.58m

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 2.5 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 1.9 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 2.3 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.5 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 3.5 m.
 

Stingaree. 4.1 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.1 m.
 

Stingaree. 4.8 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 5.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.3 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.8 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 2.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 2.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 1.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 2.3 m..