Dive at North Rock, Broughton Island, NSW on 20/10/12

Dive at North Rock, Broughton Island, NSW on 20/10/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

20 October, 2012

Time

9:25am - 10:27am

Details

First dive with Feet First Dive as part of the St George Underwater Centre Dive Club Nelson Bay trip in October 2012.

Headed down the anchor line to the flat top of a pinnacle in around 6 metres of water. Dropped over the edge into a gutter and a grey nurse shark almost immediately. Swam around various gutters sighting more grey nurse sharks and eventually made our way back to the main gutter where most of the shark action was on. I saw at least 5 different grey nurse sharks, and possibly up to 10, including one very large female. Did the safety stop on top of the pinnacle and then up the anchor line back to the boat.

Buddy

John Mckeon

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

18.3 m

Average depth

12.0 m

Water temperature

17.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Newcastle AEDT

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

High

12:37am

1.38m

Low

6:15am

0.49m

High

12:47pm

1.82m

Low

7:35pm

0.31m

Video

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

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.