Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 3 May 2015

Time

9:03am - 10:34am

Details

Today's dive was very much like yesterday's dive. We got in on the northern side of the island and descended to the sand line where the visibility was 3 to 5 metres.

We swam to and down the slope looking for pygmies and nudibranchs along the way. On the way down the slope we had a look for the tiny juvenile pygmy pipehorse we'd seen on one of the rocks with the pink sea tulips on the last couple of dives but couldn't find it.

We continued down the slope and I spent a lot more time looking for the other pygmy pipehorse I'd seen last Wednesday. I then only got as far as Pygmy Rock before it was time to turn around.

On the way back, Kim pointed out a red indianfish not far from where I had been looking for the second pygmy pipehorse.

I had another look for the tiny juvenile pygmy pipehorse on the rocks with the pink sea tulips and eventually found it but only after Kim had already left for the exit.

I continued up the slope and around to the northern side of the island where I caught up with Kim just as she was exiting.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

2-5 metres

Duration

90 minutes

Maximum depth

11.6 m

Average depth

8.7 m

Water temperature

19.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

1:45am

0.49m

High

7:41am

1.50m

Low

1:38pm

0.49m

High

8:02pm

1.73m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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 cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 9 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 10.9 m.
 

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 9.9 m.
 

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10 m.