Dive Details

Location

Date

07 April, 2013

Time

11:40am - 12:45pm

Details

The second dive of a double boat dive to Magic Point on board Joe and Linda's boat "BENT".

Again we descended the anchor line and went over to the cave. This time we only spent around 15 minutes with the sharks before heading off into deeper water. We managed to find 3 weedy seadragons as well as a few giant cuttlefish. We returned to the cave and then headed back up the anchor line to complete the dive.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

21.3 m

Average depth

15.4 m

Water temperature

21.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

12:33am

0.45m

High

6:43am

1.63m

Low

1:00pm

0.36m

High

7:14pm

1.62m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51

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.

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 13.9 m.
 

Male eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 15.9 m.
 

Female eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 16.5 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.5 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.4 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.6 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 20 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 17.8 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 18.4 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 18.3 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 17.5 m.
 

Biscuit star, Asterodiscides truncatus. 14.9 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 14.7 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 13.3 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 14.8 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 15.2 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 14.6 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 14.6 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 14.3 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 14.4 m.