Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 24/4/13

Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 24/4/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

24 April, 2013

Time

7:12pm - 8:26pm

Details

Entered at the pool and descended the wall. The visibility was noticeably better than on the dive on the previous Friday. As we moved along the wall we came across to quite large wobbegongs. Further along the wall the pineapplefish cave was full of kelp and the pineapplefish had moved out. I removed some of the kelp and hopefully they will return. Just off the wall I found a red flatworm moving over the sand.

We moved off the wall and across the sand where we found a cuttlefish and an octopus.

Back to the wall and we kept moving along, finding numerous frogfish, cuttlefish and hermit crabs. Just before we turned Sheree found a moray.

After turning around we made our way back to the pool.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Graeme Heard

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

72 minutes

Maximum depth

15.9 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

19.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

12:47am

0.44m

High

6:48am

1.59m

Low

12:56pm

0.36m

High

7:17pm

1.75m

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.