Dive Details

Location

Date

21 August, 2011

Time

1:06pm - 2:12pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

This was another trial dive with a dry suit. The suit leaked a tiny amount via one sleeve but I stayed dry. I was cold at one point but that was because I wasn't wearing enough under the suit.

Entered at the boat ramp as normal. The water was only reasonably clear and we made our way up the reef slowly. I spent most of the dive photographing nudibranchs.

Buddy

Wayne Ladkin

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

16.6 m

Average depth

10.4 m

Water temperature

14.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

12:24am

1.22m

Low

6:30am

0.58m

High

1:09pm

1.43m

Low

7:39pm

0.68m

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.

Sydney cardinalfish, Apogon limenus. 13.6 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 16.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 15.4 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 11.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 9.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 9.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 10 m.