Dive Details

Location

Date

15 June 2014

Time

8:19am - 9:33am

Details

It was overcast and threatening with rain at Bare Island when I arrived. There was a ESE swell but also strong westerly winds making it quite choppy. I wanted to get in on the western side of the island to shorten the swim to the wall but it was too rough. It was even too rough for a surface swim around the corner so I got in on the northern side of the island as far west as I dare and descended to the sand line.

I swam west and then south west and eventually south until I reached the wall. I descended the wall and turned to the west.

I followed the wall to the west until it ended and then started looking for the seahorses. It took me quite a while to find the first one, a yellow one, "Kim". It took me even longer to find the second one, "Della". I looked some more but found no others.

I headed north towards the shallow wall and when I found it, I followed it around to the west and then headed north. I cut across the top and ended up on the slope, following it east until I hit the boulders. I started my safety stop over the boulders as I swam to the exit. I exited at the ramp.

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

73 minutes

Maximum depth

18.2 m

Average depth

12.5 m

Water temperature

16.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:56am

0.22m

High

9:57am

1.49m

Low

3:36pm

0.44m

High

10:05pm

2.03m

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.

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kim"). 17.4 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kim"). 17.3 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 16.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.5 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 10 m.
 

Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 10 m.
 

Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 10.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.9 m.