Dive Details

Location

Date

24 June, 2012

Time

10:30am - 11:28am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered from the shelf just to the south of The Leap. Headed straight down to the sand line and then north along the sand line. Found a weedy seadragon before reaching Seahorse Rock. All three seahorses were at Seahorse Rock (although the gold one was initially at the low rock just to the south but Keith "helped" it back to the main rock. Found the "Southern Cross" seahorse on a flat rock to 40-50 metres north of Seahorse Rock and also found a cuttlefish and short-tailed Ceratosoma on the same rock. Exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Graeme Heard

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

58 minutes

Maximum depth

22.1 m

Average depth

15.1 m

Water temperature

16.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

5:28am

0.41m

High

11:34am

1.37m

Low

5:11pm

0.62m

High

11:29pm

1.69m

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.

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 8.2 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 21.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 22 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 20.9 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 19.9 m.
 

Two pot-bellied seahorses, Hippocampus abdominalis. 20.5 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 18 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.7 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 17.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. 18.3 m.