Dive Details

Location

Date

21 October, 2012

Time

1:49pm - 3:05pm

Details

Fifth dive with Feet First Dive as part of the St George Underwater Centre Dive Club Nelson Bay trip in October 2012, although Marc and I did this on our own.

This was the first time both of us has dived Fly Point and we didn't really know where to go. We swam straight out from the steps and descended to around 10 metres and pottered around the sponges and algae. We saw a number of cuttlefish, including three that were displaying to each other: I suspect 2 males and a smaller female by the way the displays went. We also saw a turtle at the end of the dive.

Buddy

Marc Werner

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

75 minutes

Maximum depth

10.8 m

Average depth

8.6 m

Water temperature

17.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Newcastle AEDT

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

High

1:42am

1.31m

Low

7:15am

0.57m

High

1:48pm

1.72m

Low

8:42pm

0.37m

Video

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

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.

Anemone. 10.6 m.
 

Red-lined bubble snail, Bullina lineata. 9.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 9.5 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 9.7 m.
 

Snail. 9.8 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 9.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 9.7 m.
 

Pink-banded grubfish, Parapercis nebulosa. 10.2 m.
 

Red-lined bubble snail, Bullina lineata. 10 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 9.5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 9.5 m.
 

Red-lined bubble snail, Bullina lineata. 9.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 9.4 m.
 

Sponge decorator crab, Hyastenus elatus. 9 m.
 

Sponge decorator crab, Hyastenus elatus. 9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 9.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. 9.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 9.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 9.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 9.7 m.
 

Sponge decorator crab, Hyastenus elatus. 9.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.1 m.