Dive Details
Location
Date
01 March, 2014
Time
10:39am - 11:33am
Details
For our second dive of the day we were going to the gutter with the grey nurse sharks. This was a pretty simple dive. Jump in the water, swim to the gutter and swim with the sharks. They were not at all worried about us and would swim very close. Every now and then they'd slightly change direction but they pretty much kept doing their laps despite our presence.
On the safety stop I tried my hand at some selfies although I found out when I looked at the photos that someone was photobombing me.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Choppy
Visibility
20-25 metres
Duration
54 minutes
Maximum depth
25.9 m
Average depth
16.4 m
Water temperature
15.0°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Yamba AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
2:42am
0.15m
High
9:13am
1.77m
Low
3:33pm
0.11m
High
9:31pm
1.51m
Video
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D7000
Lens
Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter
Housing
Ikelite 6801.70
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51
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.
Ornate wobbegong, Orectolobus ornatus. 21.6 m.
Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 22.9 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.4 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. That is Sheree in the background. 22.9 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.7 m.
Grey nurse sharks, Carcharias taurus. 22.9 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.2 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.6 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.4 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.1 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 21.9 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22 m.
Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 22.1 m.
Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 21.8 m.
Yellow tail scad, Trachurus novaezelandiae. 21.3 m.
Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 4.1 m.
Selfie with photobombing Sheree. 4.9 m.
Selfie. 4.7 m.
Selfie with photobombing Sheree. 6.8 m.
Selfie with photobombing Sheree. 9.3 m.
Sheree. 5.4 m.
Sheree. 6.3 m.
Peter. 5.6 m.