Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 16 August 2015

Time

8:22am - 9:13am

Details

This was the first of a double dive on Bent with Sydney Tasman Divers. As Joe and I were the only people with boat license on the boat we couldn't dive together so I went in first with George and Paula.

Joe dropped us to the south of The Leap and we descended to just above the sand line. The visibility was around 15 metres. We were some way south of the wall and headed north with the incoming tide. The terrain was really interesting and I wanted to take it slowly but I had to keep up with George and Paula. I'm sure there would have been a lot of pygmy pipehorses on the rocks. The speed was fine for looking for seahorses. There were a lot of sponge covered rocks which looked suitable for seahorses but I didn't see any at all. I did see one juvenile weedy seadragon. George and Paula saw another.

We continued along to the wall. George and Paula swam along the top opf the wall and I stayed near the sand.

At the end of the wall I slowed to look for pygmy pipehorses and lost Goerge and Paula. After Pygmy Rock I swam through the middle of the amphitheatre and headed to some of the shallower parts. By good fortune George and Paula had done the same thing and I caught up with them just as they were ascending for their safety stop. I did my saftey stop a few minutes behind and surfaced just as the boat came in to pick us up. It was a great dive but I would like to do it again a but slower.

Buddy

George Borovskis and Paula Olymbios

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15 metres

Duration

50 minutes

Maximum depth

22.2 m

Average depth

18.3 m

Water temperature

15.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:16am

0.36m

High

9:20am

1.43m

Low

3:05pm

0.48m

High

9:24pm

1.69m

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.

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 20.6 m.
 

Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2015081601). 20.6 m.
 

Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2015081601). 20.6 m.