Dive Details
Location
Date
15 June, 2013
Time
1:03pm - 2:18pm
Details
Entered at the pool and descended the wall. Poked around the smaller bommies for a while and then headed back to the wall to visit the pineapplefish.
Headed away from the wall again and around one of the large bommies and then back to the wall again. Found another lone pineapplefish further along the wall.
Turned and headed back along the wall a bit shallower. George pointed out a moorish idol. Did a safety stop on top of the wall and exited at the pool.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni, George Borovskis
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
5 metres
Duration
74 minutes
Maximum depth
15.7 m
Average depth
10.9 m
Water temperature
17.0°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
6:44am
0.52m
High
12:58pm
1.34m
Low
6:35pm
0.74m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D300
Lens
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D
Housing
Ikelite 6812.3
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.
Soft coral, Carijoa sp., polyp. 13.7 m.
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.7 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.9 m.
Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 12.9 m.
Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus. 13.2 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.4 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.3 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.5 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.4 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.6 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.6 m.
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 10.7 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.8 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 10.8 m.
Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 9.3 m.
Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 9.2 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.2 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.3 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 5.8 m.