Dive Details

Location

Date

01 April, 2013

Time

10:08am - 11:10am

Details

Entered at The Leap although I badly timed my slip into the water, face planted and lost my mask. Fortunately, John was able to retrieve it for me. Swam straight to the sand line and headed north. Found "Rosie", "Bob" and "Alain" at their rock.

Found the basket star in its current location as well as a reaper cuttlefish nearby. Sheree found a large moray and Daniela found another reaper cuttlefish on the way to "Southern Cross". We were also buzzed by a school of large yellow-tail kingfish.

We found "Southern Cross" and "Richie" but still no "Kel".

On the way to The Steps we checked out many of the sponge covered rocks but found no seahorses. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

21.2 m

Average depth

15.0 m

Water temperature

22.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:29am

1.77m

Low

7:09am

0.36m

High

1:09pm

1.36m

Low

6:53pm

0.52m

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.

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 20.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 20.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 20.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Rosie"). 20 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Alain"). 19.5 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Bob"). 20.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Alain"). 19.6 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 18.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 19.6 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 19.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 18.4 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Southern Cross"). 17.6 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Richie"). 17.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 13.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 12.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 11 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 5.7 m.