Dive Details
Location
Date
Tuesday 23 December 2014
Time
8:29am - 9:38am
Details
The waters around Bare Island were flat and we could have pretty much jumped in anywhere. We jumped in just south of the north west corner of the island. We descended and headed south-south-west (210°) to the wall. We descended the wall and turned north west along the wall. Visibility here was around 10 metres but it was quite cold.
We followed the wall to the tiered area and I found both "Della" and "Tomas", pot-bellied seahorses, immediately. I looked for the third seahorse I saw last time but could not find it.
We followed the tiers for a while and I was hoping to find an angler or a red indianfish to show Daniel but all I found was a dwarf lionfish.
We headed north to the shallow wall and followed it around the western side of the island until we hit the north west reef. Here I looked on many rocks for pygmy pipehorses but found none.
We headed east to the exit and did our safety stop along the way. We exited just west of the ramp.
Buddy
Daniel Jones
Seas
Flat
Visibility
5-10 metres
Duration
68 minutes
Maximum depth
18.4 m
Average depth
12.6 m
Water temperature
15.4°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
3:20am
0.36m
High
9:53am
1.95m
Low
4:32pm
0.17m
High
10:30pm
1.44m
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, ("Della"). 16.6 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Tomas"). 16.7 m.
Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.8 m.
Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 17 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 13.6 m.
Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 12.6 m.
Painted stinkfish, Eocallionymus papilio. 12.1 m.
Flounder, Bothus sp. 5.3 m.