Dive Details

Location

Date

31 December, 2013

Time

8:58am - 10:01am

Details

We jumped in at The Gutter and headed north. Peter was looking for the Devil Cave so we followed him. After around 15 minutes he gave up and we stared to head back to The Nursery. I spotted a male weedy seadragon with eggs but had to choose whether to photograph it or not get left behind. I chose the latter.

We saw a large long-snout boarfish on the way back and when we got back to The Nursery I found a playful blue groper.

We exited at The Gutter.

Buddy

John Keogh

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

23.7 m

Average depth

14.3 m

Water temperature

18.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Port Kembla AEDT

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

Low

1:14am

0.32m

High

7:49am

1.82m

Low

2:23pm

0.15m

High

8:27pm

1.33m

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.

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 21.8 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 21.9 m.
 

Long-snout boarfish, Pentaceropsis recurvirostris. 20.8 m.
 

Sea fan. 20.8 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.9 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.8 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.3 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.2 m.