Dive Details

Location

Date

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Time

11:19am - 12:23pm

Details

We jumped in at The Steps, descended to the sand line and headed towards The Monument. Initially the visibility was around 5 metres.We followed the sand/kelp line along. We saw 4 weedy seadragons before we reached the area where we used to see "Honey": the male with no head appendages (PT2015010102), the female missing her first head appendage (PT2014012602), the female with a growth on her snout (PT2014041802) and a large juvenile (PT2015112401).

By now the visibility dropped to around 3 metres. We swam to the wall. Bia was looking for a small seahorse she'd seen yesterday when Fred found a male on the wall. I'll call that seahorse "Fred". Bia then found the female on the rock adjacent to the wall. I will call her "Bia". The visibility dropped to 2 metres so we turned around and headed back to The Steps.

We saw 2 weedy seadragons on the way back: A male with eggs (PT2014012601) and the large juvenile (PT2015112401) again. We got back to the boulders, did our safety stop and exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Bia Hoffman, Fred Hoffman, Chris

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

2 to 5 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

12.6 m

Average depth

10.3 m

Water temperature

20.6°C
                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:19am

0.45m

High

10:44am

1.77m

Low

5:14pm

0.33m

High

11:15pm

1.40m

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.

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2014012602). 9.9 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, (PT2014041802). 10.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Fred"). 11.3 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Fred"). 11.4 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bia"). 11.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bia"). 11.4 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bia"). 11.1 m.