Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 10 April 2015

Time

12:03pm - 1:34pm

Details

We got in at the pool, headed out and descended the wall. We turned north for a while and swam along the wall. We turned and headed past the entry point and followed the wall to the west and then north west.

We turned at the last connected bommie and then headed back at between 6 and 8 metres with a couple of deeper excursions. When we past the exit again we headed back into deeper water before coming up to the top of the reef and finishing the dive in the shallows.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

2-5 metres

Duration

90 minutes

Maximum depth

16.4 m

Average depth

10.0 m

Water temperature

19.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

6:19am

0.52m

High

12:18pm

1.30m

Low

5:58pm

0.64m

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 16.2 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.2 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 12.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 12.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 12.9 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 8 m.
 

Spines of a sea urchin, Salmacis belli. 10.9 m.
 

Pygmy rockcod, Scorpaenodes scaber. 5.4 m.
 

Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 10.2 m.
 

Stars and stripes pufferfish, Arothron hispidus. 6.8 m.
 

Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 3.3 m.