Dive Details

Location

Date

01 December, 2012

Time

9:23am - 10:23am

Details

Entered at The Leap and headed straight to the sand line. Followed the sand line north towards Seahorse Rock looking for anglefish on the way. Looked very carefully all over Seahorse Rock but did not find "Golden Girl", "Francesco" or "Bob". Looked over all the nearby rocks and sponges for the seahorses. Ended up finding a new female, "Rosie" on a low rock with a male that looks very much like "Bob".

Headed towards the rock where "Southern Cross" lives and found her plus two males, "Kel", who we have seen before, and what looks a new one (to us), "Ulysses".

Left there and headed into shallower water and exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

22.0 m

Average depth

16.4 m

Water temperature

14.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:04am

0.52m

High

10:35am

1.72m

Low

5:15pm

0.38m

High

11:12pm

1.27m

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.

Red brick sea satr, Pentagonaster duebeni. 21.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 21.8 m.
 

Port Jackson Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 21.5 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Chromodoris tasmaniensis. 20.7 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 20.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Rosie") .-20.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Rosie"). 20.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Rosie"). 20.4 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis (probably "Bob"). 20.8 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis (probably "Bob"). 20.8 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Southern Cross"). 18.5 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Kel"). 18.1 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Southern Cross"). 18.4 m.
 

Two male pot-bellied seahorses, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Ulysses" on left and "Kel"). 18 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Southern Cross"). 18.4 m.
 

Mosaic sea star. Plectaster decanus. 13 m.