Dive Details

Location

Date

23 November, 2012

Time

7:15pm - 9:20pm

Details

Entered at the beach and pottered around the shallows. Headed north along the shoreline over the sand past where the pleurobranchs normally are. We were too early for them but they were there on the way back. On the way back we spent a lot of time looking over the sand for interesting critters. We found quite a few including usual and unusual suspects.

Another great night dive.

Buddy

Frank Hartigan

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

124 minutes

Maximum depth

5.3 m

Average depth

3.6 m

Water temperature

18.5°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

High

5:20am

1.43m

Low

11:32am

0.61m

High

5:31pm

1.33m

Low

11:42pm

0.47m

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.

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.6 m.
 

Male eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae, with eggs in its mouth. 4 m.
 

Hunting mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon, with jutting feeding tentacles. 4.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.5 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 3.8 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.3 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 4.6 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 5.1 m.
 

Octopus. 4.5 m.
 

Octopus. 4.5 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 4.5 m.
 

Sea hare, Syphonota geographica. 3.5 m.
 

Tiny eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.8 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 3.8 m.
 

Sea hare. 3.8 m.
 

Sea slug, Philinopsis taronga. 4.1 m.
 

Sea slug, Philinopsis taronga. 4.2 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.6 m.
 

Tiger pipefish, Filicampus tigris. 4 m.
 

Tiger pipefish, Filicampus tigris. 3.9 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.8 m.
 

Sea hare, Syphonota geographica. 3.4 m.
 

Stingaree. 3.3 m.
 

Octopus. 3.4 m.
 

Octopus. 3.3 m.
 

Octopus. 3.3 m.
 

Octopus. 3.2 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.7 m.
 

Squid. 1.8 m.
 

Bubble snail, Hydatina physis. 1.1 m.