Dive Details
Location
Camp Cove, Watsons Bay, NSW,
Date
20 May, 2006
Time
9:33am - 10:43am
Details
Headed north from beach. First dive with housing for D70. Camera and housing performed well despite the poor visibility.
Buddy
Tim Everest
Seas
Flat
Visibility
3
Duration
70 minutes
Maximum depth
5.2 m
Average depth
3.2 m
Water temperature
18.3°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides
High
1:15am
1.67m
Low
8:18am
0.42m
High
2:26pm
1.28m
Low
7:54pm
0.69m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Common Lionfish
Large
1
Immaculate Damsel
Large
1
Small-spotted Wrasse
Medium
2
Pencilled Surgeon
Medium
Few
Moorish Idol
Medium
2
Collector Urchin
Medium
Many
Sea Urchin
Small
Few
Sea Urchin
Large
2
Octopus tetricus
Common Sydney Octopus
Medium
2
Mourning Cuttlefish
Large
2
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D70
Lens
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF +4 diopter
Housing
Ikelite 6807.1
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.55
Strobes
Ikelite SubStrobe DS-50
Ikelite SubStrobe DS-125
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.
Tim Everest, Homo sapiens, at 1.3 m.
Half-banded seaperch, Hypoplectrodes maccullochi, at 1.7 m.
Sea urchin, Toxopneustes pileolus, at 2.5 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus, at 3.4 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon, at 2.9 m.
Sea urchin, Pseudoboletia maculata at 3.3 m.
Lionfish, Pterois volitans, at 3.5 m.
Spotted grubfish, Parapercis ramsayi, at 3.7 m.
Moorish idols, Zanclus cornutus, at 3.3 m.
A tunicate, a tunicate covered by sponge or a sponge at 4.3 m.
Sabellid tubeworm, possibly Sabellastarte sp., at 3.5 m.
Orange sponge at 3.3 m.
Collector urchin, Pseudoboletia indiana, at 3.5 m.
Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridus, at 4 m.
Plesiastrea versipora at 4.6 m.
Collector urchin, Pseudoboletia indiana, at 4 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus, at 2.9 m.
Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridus, at 4.5 m.
Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridus, at 4.1 m.
Abedefduf bengalensis at 4.4 m.
Abedefduf bengalensis at 4.1 m.
Abedefduf bengalensis at 4.3 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus, at 3.4 m.
Small spotted wrasse, Cirrhilabrus punctatus, at 3 m.