Dive Details

Location

Date

16 March, 2013

Time

12:30pm - 1:34pm

Details

We had originally planned to do two dives at Kurnell today but after the poor conditions at The Leap I decided to join Peter Jaques and others at Shiprock. Conditions were pretty good there because it is protected.

We entered at the pool and descended the wall. We followed the wall up to the shallows turned an came back. I played around at the top of the wall near the exit point and found a couple of juvenile butterflyfish.

Buddy

George and Paula Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

15.3 m

Average depth

9.2 m

Water temperature

23.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

6:15am

0.48m

High

12:15pm

1.35m

Low

6:07pm

0.54m

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.

Fortesque, Centropogon australis. 14.3 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.5 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.5 m.
 

Hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 10.5 m.
 

Bennett's pufferfish, Canthigaster bennetti. 7.2 m.
 

Bennett's pufferfish, Canthigaster bennetti. 7.2 m.
 

Juvenile threadfin butterflyfish, Chaetodon auriga. 5.6 m.