Dive Details

Location

Date

03 June, 2012

Time

11:04am - 12:07pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered west of the "boat ramp" and headed along the sand line to the west. Veered off down the "ramp" to the north-west and out to what I like to call the "north-west reef" in search of weedy seadragons. Didn't find any in the usual spot but kept on pushing north-west following the reef into deeper water. Didn't find any weedy seadragons but did find a boarfish. Came back more-or-less along the same path and exited at the entry point.

Buddy

Graeme Heard

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

62 minutes

Maximum depth

18.0 m

Average depth

13.1 m

Water temperature

16.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

1:00am

0.31m

High

6:54am

1.49m

Low

12:42pm

0.38m

High

7:17pm

2.00m

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 star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 10.8 m.
 

Stingaree. 12.1 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 17.8 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 16.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 16.3 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 16.2 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 16.3 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 11.6 m.