Dive Details

Location

Date

12 January, 2014

Time

9:06am - 10:00am

Details

For this dive, Tomas took us to the Isolated Reefs. This was my first time visiting them. We jumped in the water from the mainland side at the point west of the bridge. We swam on the surface passed the white buoy and stopped above the reef, according to Tomas. We then descended quickly as safely possible but there was a mid-water current that dragged us off the reef a bit and we had to swim over the sand to reach the second reef. (The second reef is the one further from the island).

We swam around the outside of the reef in an anticlockwise direction. We almost completed one full circuit and then swam to the middle of the reef where Tomas found a small undescribed angler that he'd not seen before.

We headed west and left second reef and arrived at first reef after a short swim over sand. On the first reef, Tomas found a tiny and well camouflaged scorpionfish. We followed first reef along to the west until we reached the reef of the island. We followed that around the north west corner and up the slope to the northern side of the island. We exited near the ramp.

Buddy

Peter Jaques

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

18.7 m

Average depth

12.4 m

Water temperature

18.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

6:36am

1.58m

Low

1:24pm

0.54m

High

7:09pm

1.20m

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.

Nudibranch, Glossodoris angasi. 16.4 m.
 

Undescribed angler. 16.4 m.
 

Undescribed angler. 16.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 13.2 m.
 

Scrcorpionfish. 10.6 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 6.8 m.
 

Flathead, Platycephalus sp. 5.6 m.
 

Eye of a stingaree. 3.1 m.