Dive Details

Location

Date

28 August, 2011

Time

10:51am - 11:31am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre. Additonally, the dive was part of the Ride Around Australia event and we were collecting rubbish.

Entered at the usual spot and headed into the outgoing tide. Turned around at around 25 minutes and exited at the same spot.

Buddy

Peter Waters

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

39 minutes

Maximum depth

13.4 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

16.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

1:25am

0.23m

High

7:23am

1.43m

Low

1:09pm

0.33m

High

7:34pm

1.87m

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.

Peter Waters with his debris bag. 3.7 m.
 

Diver collecting debris. 7.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.5 m.
 

Ray. 12.7 m.
 

Peter Waters picking up the car battery. 12.3 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 12.3 m.