Dive Details

Location

Date

16 December, 2012

Time

9:26am - 10:32am

Details

Entered the water on the southern side of the island and went straight down to the south reef. We then moved slowly west along here towards the deep wall looking for pygmy pipehorses. We weren't really sure where to look but looked anyway. As we approached the deep wall we came across a red indianfish.

At around 100 bar we headed up the wall and swam around the island back to the exit point near the bridge.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-12 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

18.9 m

Average depth

13.4 m

Water temperature

14.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:51am

0.36m

High

11:20am

1.97m

Low

6:02pm

0.15m

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.

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 16.1 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 16.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 17.9 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 17.8 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 18.6 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 18.8 m.
 

Stony coral, Balanophyllia sp. 18.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 17.1 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Chromodoris tasmaniensis. 12.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 7.1 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 7 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 3.8 m.