Dive Details
Location
Date
Sunday 7 February 2016
Time
8:09am - 9:50am
Details
The seas around Sydney were rough so I dived at Clifton Gardens. It was a while since I'd dived here.
I got in from the beach next to the next and swam out under the pier. I continued under the pier and swimming from one side of the pier to the other looking for interesting critters. I found a yellowish striped angler to the west of the pier and a black one to the south of the pier in the deeper water.
I came back up the slope to the pier again and by this time there were other divers stirring up the bottom :(. One did point out another angler so I can't complain.
I swam back under the pier to the beach where I got out.
Seas
Slight
Visibility
2 to 3 metres
Duration
100 minutes
Maximum depth
11.2 m
Average depth
6.7 m
Water temperature
23.1°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
1:37am
0.46m
High
8:08am
1.79m
Low
2:45pm
0.30m
High
8:41pm
1.43m
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.
Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 2.1 m.
Nudibranch, Polycera capensis. 4.3 m.
Nudibranch, Polycera capensis. 7.1 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.6 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 6.1 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.3 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.4 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
Male eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae, with eggs in his mouth. 7 m.
Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 8.4 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 10.8 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 10.7 m.
Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 10 m.
Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 10 m.
Blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus. 8.3 m.
Nudibranch, Polycera capensis. 7.8 m.
Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.2 m.
Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.1 m.
Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7 m.
Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 7.3 m.
Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 6.8 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.2 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.2 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6.2 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.6 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.6 m.