Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 14/9/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

14 September, 2012

Time

7:00pm - 8:09pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered through the "pool" and went down the wall. Followed the wall along and made a couple of excursions onto the sad. Turned at 45 minutes and came back at around 8 metres looking in the crevices and caves.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

69 minutes

Maximum depth

15.0 m

Average depth

10.9 m

Water temperature

15.5°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

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.


Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14.4 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.7 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.7 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 11.5 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 11.5 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.7 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 8.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 8.6 m.
 

Numbray, Hypnos monopterygium. 9.4 m.
 

Sea cucmber. 4.5 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 4.6 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 4.7 m.