Dive Details

Location

Date

Monday 7 September 2015

Time

8:46am - 9:34am

Details

Dive with Sydney Tasman Divers on Bent.

Dan and I jumped in and headed down the anchor line. The anchor was hooked into the rocks near a wall. We followed the wall to the west into the current knowing we could come back along the wall to the anchor.

There was an interesting gutter along the wall with lots of sea tulips. We saw a couple of Port Jackson sharks and two giant cuttlefish. There were also lots of sea stars.

We turned and came back along the wall. The anchor was not where I expected it to be. The visibility was not great so finding it would not be easy. We swam around a bit and came back to where I thought the anchor would be but I still couldn't find it.

I decided we'd need to do a mid-water ascent so I sent up my surface marker buoy on my reel while we were still on the bottom. We then ascended slowly. While I could still see the bottom I noticed we were not drifting at all so I felt confident we wouldn't be far from the boat. I half expected to hear the motor start and as it didn't I figured the SMB was near the boat. We did a 5 minute safety stop and ascended. We surfaced less than 2 metres from the boat.

Buddy

Daniel Pritchard

Seas

Slight

Visibility

8 metres

Duration

47 minutes

Maximum depth

22.1 m

Average depth

17.1 m

Water temperature

16.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

3:38am

1.19m

Low

9:19am

0.60m

High

3:56pm

1.55m

Low

10:48pm

0.51m

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.

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 21.5 m.
 

Sea star, Petricia vernicina. 20.4 m.
 

Sea fan. 21.2 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 20.9 m.
 

Macro of sea star, Asterodiscides truncatus. 18.4 m.