Dive Details

Location

Date

25 August, 2013

Time

9:28am - 10:52am

Details

Entered at The Steps and made our way down to the sand line. Cruised through the kelp until we got to the first lot of rocks. As we drifted towards The Monument we examined all the rocks carefully looking for seahorses and painted anglers.

At the location we normally see "Honey", I spotted the little angler that Sebastien found last week: "Little Sebastien". It was still on the same sponge. Sheree spotted "Honey" down near the sand hanging on to kelp, again. She also spotted a Hypselodoris obscura nudibranch.

We drifted to split rock but found no seahorses. On the way to the slope where the other seahorses used to be, Sheree found two really cool nudibranchs, Okenia hallucigenia and one from family Facelinidae which I haven't been able to identify.

There was no sign of "Jaques", "Jill" or "Jackson" where we'd seen them before, but the little orange painted angler ("Little George") was in the same area as the previous weeks.

As we swam over the shallows to get out, Sheree found two red-line bubble shells and bright red nudibranch, Madrella sanguinea.

We exited on the rocks just along from the beach at The Monument.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Flat

Visibility

15+ metres

Duration

83 minutes

Maximum depth

14.0 m

Average depth

10.1 m

Water temperature

15.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

5:00am

0.35m

High

11:16am

1.58m

Low

5:29pm

0.46m

High

11:30pm

1.44m

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.

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 10.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 12.1 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 12.1 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 12 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 12.5 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 12.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris obscura. 11.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 10.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Okenia hallucigenia. 10.2 m.
 

Facelinid nudibranch. 10.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 13 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 12.8 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.2 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.3 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.3 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 5.6 m.
 

Red-line bubble shell, Bullina lineata. 2.4 m.
 

Red-line bubble shell, Bullina lineata. 2.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Madrella sanguinea. 1.9 m.