Dive Details

Location

Date

05 October, 2008

Time

12:03pm - 1:01pm

Details

Entered at The Steps and swam around to The Momument

Visibility was not great and there was a lot of particulate matter in the water making photography difficult.

Buddy

Anthony

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 m

Duration

58 minutes

Maximum depth

13.0 m

Average depth

10.1 m

Water temperature

15.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

High

12:30am

1.14m

Low

5:59am

0.59m

High

12:39pm

1.49m

Low

7:30pm

0.54m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

Sea anemones, Anthothoe albocincta. 11.5 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 10.6 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 10.9 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 11.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 10.8 m.
 

Ascidian, Clavelina meridionalis. 11 m.
 

Sabellid featherduster worm. 10.6 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 11.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti 11.4 m.
 

Soft coral. 11.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 10.6 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.6 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.6 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 10.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 12.2 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 12.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 11.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 10.7 m.
 

Stony coral, Plesiastrea versipora. 10.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 9.4 m.