Dive Details

Location

Date

27 October, 2013

Time

10:04am - 11:23am

Details

Entered at The Steps and headed straight down to the sand line. The visibility was quite poor again. We headed along the sand line towards The Leap and stopped at "Little Andrew", the tiny painted angler and "Big John", the yellow form undescribed angler.

We then continued along the sand line until I found the appropriate break in the rocks and headed up to where I had seen "Robin", the tiny painted angler, the previous day. It had hardly moved. Sheree noticed a basket star nearby which will help as an additional location marker. Basket stars generally do not move from their perching spot.

Back to the sand line and we headed down to Miamira magnifica nudibranch. It took us a while to find it because the visibility was so poor and by the time we had, there were three other divers there and so the visibility was even worse.

We continued towards The Leap, passing the basket star there and when we got to the large sponge covered boulder we turned and headed up from the sand line back to The Steps. We eventually came back to "Robin" so we are now confident we can find that angler again.

We swam on and stopped again at "Little Andrew" and "Big John" before heading to the shallows for a safety stop and exit at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgey

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

78 minutes

Maximum depth

14.7 m

Average depth

10.8 m

Water temperature

17.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

3:00am

1.15m

Low

8:35am

0.73m

High

2:59pm

1.40m

Low

9:53pm

0.56m

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.

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Andrew"). 12.1 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Big John").10.9 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Andrew"). 12.1 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Robin"). 11 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 10.2 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Robin"). 11 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Andrew"). 12.3 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Big John").10.7 m.
 

Stony coral, Plesiastrea versipora. 5.2 m.