Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 23 April 2016

Time

9:01am - 10:39am

Details

It was too rough to dive at any open sites and I enjoy diving at Clifton Gardens so I came nice and early before the crowds. I got in at the beach next to the jetty and swam out under the jetty. The visibility was surprisingly good, starting at around 3 metres and was as much as 5 metres after the jetty passes the nets.

I swam past the end of the nets and headed down to the pylon where I'd seen the freckled anglerfish on the last dive. I swam around the pylon multiple times as well as the adjacent pylons but could not find either angler. I headed further out under the jetty, reached the end and gradually made my way back. I checked the same pylon again on the way back but still no anglers.

I had a good look under the next most shallow pylon hoping to find one of the ghostpipefish but instead found one of the freckled anglers. I believe it is the same as the first one I saw a few weeks ago.

I then swam along the shore between the old and new nets. I swam to the end then came out from the nets and swam along the outside. When I got back to the angler I pointed it out to a couple of divers. They were pleased.

I swam around a little longer before making it back along the jetty and exiting at the beach.

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

98 minutes

Maximum depth

8.8 m

Average depth

4.7 m

Water temperature

21.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

2:56am

0.47m

High

8:55am

1.50m

Low

2:47pm

0.52m

High

9:10pm

1.73m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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.

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.9 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.7 m.
 

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.1 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.5 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 7 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 6.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 7.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 7.8 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 8.1 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.3 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.2 m.
 

Crab. 6.8 m.
 

Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.8 m.
 

Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.8 m.
 

Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.7 m.
 

Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.9 m.
 

Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.8 m.
 

Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.9 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.2 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.1 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.8 m.