Dive Details

Location

Date

16 August, 2013

Time

6:37pm - 8:02pm

Details

Entered beside the pool and swam along the net. Didn't see any seahorses along the net.

Followed the pier out into deeper water and that's when the fun began. There was so much life out and about, including nudibranchs, cephalopods and fish.

I found striped pyjama squid that wasn't burying itself and tried to get some video but the camera was playing up (wouldn't start recording) and the squid kept swimming into deeper water.

On the way back when I got to shallower water I found a southern bottletail squid. This was only the second time I'd seen one (the other was at Camp Cove). I also found a small school of luminous bay squid.

We existed at the beach next to the pool.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

84 minutes

Maximum depth

9.3 m

Average depth

4.7 m

Water temperature

15.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

High

3:10am

1.22m

Low

9:02am

0.50m

High

3:45pm

1.61m

Low

10:33pm

0.44m

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.

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris gunnamatta. 2.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris arborescens. 3.5 m.
 

Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 3.5 m.
 

Bubble snail, Hydatina physis. 4.5 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.3 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 6 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 5.3 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 5.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 6.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hoplodoris nodulosa. 6.5 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 6.5 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 6.6 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 6.6 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 6.7 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 8.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 7.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 7.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Polycera capensis.-6.9 m.
 

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 6.2 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.2 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.3 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 5.7 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 5.6 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Berthellina citrina. 6.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hoplodoris nodulosa. 6.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hoplodoris nodulosa. 6.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris arborescens. 6.5 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.1 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.9 m.
 

Stingaree. 5.7 m.
 

Juvenile yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus. 5.8 m.
 

Juvenile yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus. 5.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris arborescens. 3.1 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 3.1 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 2.8 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 2.9 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 2.8 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 2.8 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 2.8 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 3.1 m.
 

Toadfish. 1.8 m.
 

Luminous bay squid, Loliolus noctiluca. 1.2 m.