Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 19 December 2014

Time

6:49pm - 8:31pm

Details

High tide was quite early so this was more of a twilight dive than a night dive. We got in on the western side of the western groin outside the nets and headed north to the corner than turned east along the nets.

The nets themselves were in the process of being taken down and for most of their length were rolled up. The surge was pretty bad and that stirred up sand from the bottom. It made photography very difficult. After getting to the eastern end of the pool area I came back along the nets making small excursions north and south hoping to find something interesting. The only thing of note was a tiny (around 2 cm long) cuttlefish and a couple of Plocamorpherus imperialis nudibranchs along the nets.

I came back along the eastern side of the western groin.

Buddy

Snorkel Safari Beverly Hills

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

1-3 metres

Duration

101 minutes

Maximum depth

2.6 m

Average depth

2.0 m

Water temperature

19.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

12:19am

0.47m

High

6:54am

1.62m

Low

1:28pm

0.48m

High

7:15pm

1.32m

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.

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 2.2 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 2.3 m.