Dive Details

Location

Date

06 July, 2013

Time

7:59am - 9:11am

Details

This was the first of two dives at Gorgeous Reef. We descended the anchor line which put us right near Seahorse Rock. Sheree found the same 4 seahorses ("Daniela", "Nadja", "Lotte" and "Pedro") we'd seen last time to Gorgeous Reef and then found the two other seahorses ("Nellie" and "Desmond") on a rock nearby.

We then headed north to look for "Halle". Sheree found her almost immediately but also found two males nearby on the same rock. These are now called "Bernard" and "Lee".

We then headed back to Seahorse Rock to check out those seahorses again and it was time to surface.

I headed back to where the anchor had been but it was not there (Joe had moved the boat). I surfaced to check where the boat was and then descended again and swam over to near where it was for my safety stop.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

71 minutes

Maximum depth

16.0 m

Average depth

12.6 m

Water temperature

16.6°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

1:16am

0.52m

High

7:02am

1.27m

Low

12:34pm

0.58m

High

7:13pm

1.73m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pedro"). 13.7 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Desmond"). 15.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, (Halle"). 13.8 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bernard"). 13.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lee"). 14.1 m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 13.7 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 13.5 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.9 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nellie"). 15.3 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Desmond"). 15.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 13.8 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 13.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 14 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pedro"). 13.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lotte"). 13.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.8 m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 10.8 m.