Dive Details
Location
Date
18 February, 2007
Time
10:12am - 11:07am
Details
Entered water on south side of pool and headed out along the wall.
Buddy
Colin Keene, Tim Everest, Paul Dell'Oro
Seas
Slight
Visibility
5
Duration
55 minutes
Maximum depth
9.2 m
Average depth
6.4 m
Water temperature
17.3°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Fort Dension, Sydney. AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
3:07am
0.29m
High
9:35am
1.92m
Low
4:09pm
0.10m
High
10:09pm
1.52m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Blue Damsel
Small
1
Cleaner Wrasse
Large
2
Yellow Boxfish
Medium
1
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
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.
Ascidian. 4.4 m.
Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 4.9 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 5.7 m.
Colin. 5 m.
Paul. 4.8 m.
Sea tulip, Pyura spinifera. 5.9 m.
Sea tulips, Pyura spinifera. 6.6 m.
Orange encrusting sponge. 6.8 m.
Anemones. 7.5 m.
Zoanthids. 8.1 m.
Ascidians, Polycitor giganteus. 7.9 m.
Orange sponge. 7.9 m.
Close up of orange sponge. 8 m.
Stony coral, perhaps a colour variant of Plesiastrea versipora. 8 m.
Half-banded seaperch, Hypoplectrodes maccullochi. 7.3 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.1 m.
Threefin. 8.2 m.
Nudibranchs, Hypselodoris bennetti. 7.2 m.
Ascidian, Clavelina meridionalis. 7.4 m.
Nudibranchs, Hypselodoris bennetti. 7.4 m.
Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus. 7.7 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 7.6 m.
Nudibranch, G. atromarginata. 7.7 m.
Zoanthids. 6.7 m.
Sabellid featherduster worm. 6.3 m.
Corallimorphs (left) and zoanthids (right). 6.3 m.
A ball of stripped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 5.6 m.
A ball of stripped catfish, P. lineatus. 7.1 m.
A ball of stripped catfish, P. lineatus. 7 m.
Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 6.9 m.
Blue groper, A. viridis. 6.8 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 5 m.