Dive Details

Location

Date

25 February, 2012

Time

11:12am - 12:23pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered just south of the pool and headed out along the first reef to the second reef. Turned at 100 bar and came back along the first reef.

Buddy

Graeme Heard

Seas

Slight

Visibility

2-5 metres

Duration

70 minutes

Maximum depth

10.3 m

Average depth

8.3 m

Water temperature

20.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

5:11am

0.45m

High

11:20am

1.52m

Low

5:29pm

0.42m

High

11:44pm

1.52m

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.

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 8.1 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 9 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 9.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.4 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 9.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. 8.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. 8.8 m.
 

Bent stick pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus. 8.4 m.
 

Bent stick pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus. 8.5 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 8.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 6.8 m.