Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 17 January 2016

Time

12:45pm - 2:16pm

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

91 minutes

Maximum depth

14.5 m

Average depth

11.6 m

Water temperature

21.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

2:54am

1.51m

Low

9:00am

0.56m

High

3:04pm

1.44m

Low

9:28pm

0.42m

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.

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Mikhail"). 10.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Di"). 10.6 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2014123003). 12.9 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Pteraeolidia ianthina, with eggs. 12.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniel"). 12.8 m.
 

Red-fingered angler, Porophryne erythrodactylus, ("Kim"). 12.4 m.
 

Red-fingered angler, Porophryne erythrodactylus, ("Kim"). 12.3 m.
 

Female Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2015123101). 12.6 m.
 

Female Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2016011002). 12.7 m.
 

Clown toby, Canthigaster callisterna. 13.4 m.
 

Male Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2016011001). 13.6 m.
 

Male Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2016011001). 13.3 m.
 

Male Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2016011001). 13.3 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.1 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 12.2 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Arnold"). 12.4 m.
 

Red-fingered angler, Porophryne erythrodactylus, (""). 12.5 m.
 

Male Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, (IL2016011002). 12.7 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Noel"). 13.3 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2015061401). 13.3 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Mikhail"). 10.6 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Mikhail"). 10.5 m.
 

Female ("Di") and male ("Mikhail") pot-bellied seahorses, Hippocampus abdominalis. 11.1 m.
 

Female ("Di") and male ("Mikhail") pot-bellied seahorses, Hippocampus abdominalis. 10.6 m.