Dive Details

Location

Date

24 December, 2013

Time

1:29pm - 2:34pm

Details

Entered at the pool and descended the wall. Moved along the wall all the way to the shallows, turned and returned. We exited at the pool. It was an OK dive but far from the best Shiprock has to offer.

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

15.3 m

Average depth

9.1 m

Water temperature

19.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

1:34am

1.29m

Low

7:15am

0.66m

High

1:26pm

1.47m

Low

8:04pm

0.48m

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.

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 14.6 m.
 

Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 12.3 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.3 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.3 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.4 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.3 m.
 

Umbrella snail, Umbraculum umbraculum, with eggs. 9.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 7.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 6.7 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 9.4 m.
 

Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 5.7 m.