Dive Details

Location

Date

26 October, 2008

Time

8:51am - 9:37am

Details

First dive of a double boat dive with Plunge Diving on the Scubaroos boat.

We descened the anchor line and went to the caves where the grey nurse sharks often hang out. There were none there so we followed the reef to the south east and then returned.

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

Slight

Visibility

8 m

Duration

45 minutes

Maximum depth

16.2 m

Average depth

12.4 m

Water temperature

17.6°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

12:59am

0.34m

High

7:15am

1.51m

Low

1:25pm

0.41m

High

7:26pm

1.48m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS125

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.

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 14.2 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 14.2 m.
 

Sponge. 10.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 13.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 13.6 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 13.6 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 15.1 m.
 

Lionfish, Pterois volitans. 12.5 m.