Dive Details
Location
Date
18 January, 2014
Time
11:12am - 12:14pm
Details
This dive we dived the east side of the island, jumping in just to the south of the pole on the east shore. We descended over the kelp and made our way north over the low reef. I was looking for pygmy pipehorses. I didn't find any.
We continued along the wall to the swim-through where I found one of the undescribed anglers. We continued along the wall and I found the second undescribed angler in the sponges high up on the wall.
We kept looking for pygmy pipehorses along the way but didn't find any. We swam around under the bridge and exited at the ramp.
Buddy
Kim Dinh and Vicki Swinnerton
Seas
Flat
Visibility
5-8 metres
Duration
61 minutes
Maximum depth
10.4 m
Average depth
8.0 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.
Low
4:02am
0.48m
High
10:29am
1.72m
Low
4:59pm
0.36m
High
10:59pm
1.36m
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.
Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 8.3 m.
Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 8.4 m.
Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 8.4 m.
Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 8.3 m.
Umbrella slug, Umbraculum umbraculum. 10.1 m.
Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10.1 m.
Undescribed angler. 9.7 m.
Umbrella slug, Umbraculum umbraculum. 9.7 m.
Nudibranch, Jorunna sp. 9.3 m.
Undescribed angler. 7.6 m.