Dive Details

Location

Date

11 January, 2014

Time

1:13pm - 2:28pm

Details

Entered at The Steps, descended to the sand line and swam towards The Leap. The visibility was not all that good, around 5 metres and dropping to 3 metres in places.

I thoroughly investigated the area where I'd last seen "Big John", the orange form undescribed angler, as well as the adjacent rocks but could not find it anywhere.

I headed back to the sand line and continued on towards The Leap. I swam all the way to where we'd previously seen "Dana", the red painted angler. I looked on the rock it had been seen last weekend as well as adjacent rocks but I could not fine it.

I turned and headed back towards The Steps. I stopped at Big Rock to look for pygmy pipehorses but did not find any. I then went to look for the Miamira magnifica nudibranch. It took me a little while to find the rock it had been seen on recently and once I found the rock it did not take me long to find the nudibranch at the base.

I continued along the sand line, past the basket star and on to look for "Big John" again. I still couldn't find that angler.

I ascended to 5 metres and did my safety stop in the boulders and then exited at The Steps. The low tide made the exit easy.

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

74 minutes

Maximum depth

14.6 m

Average depth

10.7 m

Water temperature

17.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

5:44am

1.53m

Low

12:29pm

0.59m

High

6:14pm

1.18m

Low

11:56pm

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.

Clown toby, Canthigaster callisterna. 13.6 m.
 

Male Sydney cardinalfish, Apogon limenus, brooding eggs in his mouth. 13.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Miamira magnifica. 12.2 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 12.8 m.
 

Male Sydney cardinalfish, Apogon limenus, brooding eggs in his mouth. 13.3 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 10.2 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 10.6 m.