Dive Details

Location

Date

27 July, 2013

Time

11:04am - 12:09pm

Details

The plan for the second dive was to head straight down into the deeper water and head our way back. As we hit the deeper water, Sheree saw a red rock cod catch a striped catfish. By the time I saw it, the catfish was being eaten, but was still alive.

At the send line we saw a lot of weedy seadragons, including a male with eggs. Sheree found a number of basket stars in around 20 metres of water.

We turned and moved into shallower water and headed north. We stopped at Seahorse Rock and saw the seahorses there and the ref indianfish was also still there.

We checked Halle's rock on the way back and then the red indianfish PJ found on the first dive and did our safety stop on the anchor line.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

20.5 m

Average depth

14.4 m

Water temperature

16.1°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

5:41am

0.31m

High

11:54am

1.54m

Low

5:53pm

0.51m

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.

Stingaree. 14.5 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nellie"). 15.2 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.4 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 19 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis, with stripped catfish. 16.9 m.
 

Male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, with eggs. 18.7 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 19.5 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.1 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 20.3 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 14.1 m.
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lee"). 14.2 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 13.7 m.