Dive Details

Location

Date

15 February, 2014

Time

8:30am - 9:44am

Details

It was overcast with light rain at Bare Island as we were getting ready, but the seas were flat with hardly a ripple. You could see from the car park that it was very clear on the northern side of the island. It was going to be a great dive.

We jumped in on the western corner of the island and headed south as we descended. We dropped over the wall and followed it south east. The incoming current was quite strong. Sheree spotted a red indianfish and pointed it out to me but PJ and Ian were too far along.

We turned and headed back along the wall. As the wall came to an end we headed up to the second wall. PJ spotted a very large giant cuttlefish in a cave which we watched for a while.

We followed the wall around further and came across another giant cuttlefish. We followed the wall all the way around the north west tip of the island and up the slope to the northern side of the island. We exited at the ramp.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Flat

Visibility

15+ metres

Duration

73 minutes

Maximum depth

18.9 m

Average depth

13.2 m

Water temperature

16.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:09am

0.45m

High

9:31am

1.70m

Low

3:57pm

0.35m

High

9:57pm

1.43m

Video

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.

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 18.7 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 17.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 16.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 15.4 m.
 

Painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 12.2 m.
 

Feather star, Ptilometra australis. 13.4 m.