Dive Details

Location

Date

03 September, 2011

Time

10:50am - 11:40am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered the water on the slope to the north of The Leap. We descended to the sand line and headed towards The Steps with the incoming tide. Visibility was great although there was a lot of "snot" in the water. Went a bit slowly and came up short of The Steps.

Buddy

Marc Werner

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15+ metres

Duration

49 minutes

Maximum depth

22.1 m

Average depth

16.3 m

Water temperature

16.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

5:42am

0.37m

High

12:11pm

1.68m

Low

6:45pm

0.39m

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.

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 14.7 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 21.2 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.4 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 21.3 m.
 

Anglerfish, Antennarius sp. 20.6 m.
 

Anglerfish, Antennarius sp. 20.6 m.
 

Red sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 19.4 m.
 

Sea fan. 17.8 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 15.7 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 15.8 m.