Dive Details

Location

Date

30 August 2014

Time

10:29am - 11:37am

Details

After a week of heavy rain Shiprock did not seem like a good idea for a dive but as conditions on the coast were very rough this was the only place I was going to be able to dive and I had my consecutive weekend record to consider.

I got in at the pool where the visibility looked fair. I descended the wall with some other divers and the visibility dropped to almost nothing. The other divers aborted but I decided to push on. Once I moved on a bit the visibility improved slightly to 2-3 metres. It stayed like this for the rest of the dive.

I followed the wall along to shallows and then came back along the base of the wall. There were a huge number of mourning cuttlefish along the way and some of them were quite large. I also saw one octopus and a few hermit crabs... oh.. and one nudibranch.

I went along the base of the wall past the exit, ascended the wall and then did my safety stop in the shallows while slowly moving back to the pool where I got out.

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

1-3 metres

Duration

67 minutes

Maximum depth

15.3 m

Average depth

10.1 m

Water temperature

15.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:45am

0.42m

High

11:04am

1.50m

Low

5:12pm

0.52m

High

11:13pm

1.43m

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.

Mourning cuttlefis, Sepia plangon. 14.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefis, Sepia plangon. 14.1 m.
 

Eye of a mourning cuttlefis, Sepia plangon. 14.2 m.
 

Eye of a mourning cuttlefis, Sepia plangon. 14 m.