Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 23 January 2015

Time

8:15pm - 10:20pm

Details

The harbour wasn't as calm as the forecast had suggested but that was only going to be a minor problem for a night dive at Camp Cove. We got in at the beach, descended on the sand and followed the shoreline north all the way to where the Euselenops luniceps used to congregate and then returned over the sand.

We didn't see any E. luniceps but we did see a lot of cool things including, a school of striped catfish, blue swimmer crabs (a female with eggs and a pair mating), playful calamari squid and a striped angler.

Buddy

Nicci Johnson

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

122 minutes

Maximum depth

7.0 m

Average depth

4.2 m

Water temperature

20.8°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

Low

4:51am

0.28m

High

11:14am

1.95m

Low

5:45pm

0.13m

High

11:52pm

1.59m

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.

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 2 m.
 

Eye of a stingaree. 2.1 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 3.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.4 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 5.1 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 5 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 5.1 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 4.2 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 4.6 m.
 

Lizardfish, Synodus sp. 5 m.
 

Female blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus, with eggs. 6.6 m.
 

Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 5.7 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 5.5 m.
 

Flathead, Platycephalus sp. 4.7 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.6 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.8 m.
 

Spotted sand-dragonet, Repomucenus calcaratus. 3.6 m.
 

Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 3.7 m.
 

Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 3.8 m.
 

Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 3.6 m.