Dive Details

Location

Date

31 December, 2013

Time

11:21am - 12:26pm

Details

We jumped in on the shore next to the loader and swam out under the loader to the end. Once at the end we swam around the pylons for a while and them came back and exited where we got in.

Buddy

Peter Jaques, Graeme Heard

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

11.2 m

Average depth

8.3 m

Water temperature

18.8°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.

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.3 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.4 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.5 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.4 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.3 m.
 

Three-bar porcupinefish, Dicotylichthys punctulatus. 9.3 m.
 

Three-bar porcupinefish, Dicotylichthys punctulatus. 9.1 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 9.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.3 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.2 m.