Dive Details

Location

Date

30 December, 2008

Time

12:40pm - 1:23pm

Details

Second dive of a double boat dive with Plunge Diving on the HCBS boat.

This time I found the cave almost immediately (once I located the anchor) and we descended with just the two of us. We saw at least one female grey nurse shark. Colin thinks he may have seen a second, a male. After the others arrived we headed south for a bit and discovered a wobbegong shark resting in a open top cave. We headed back to the shark cave for one last look before ascending.

Buddy

Colin Keene

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

43 minutes

Maximum depth

16.3 m

Average depth

12.9 m

Water temperature

16.3°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

4:12am

0.52m

High

10:45am

1.72m

Low

5:25pm

0.35m

Low

11:21pm

1.26m

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.

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 15.7 m.
 

Colin after seeing the sharks. 15.3 m.
 

Spotted wobbegoong, Orectolobus maculatus. 14 m.
 

Ascidians. 14.8 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.8 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.7 m.
 

Spotted wobbegoong, Orectolobus maculatus. 13.9 m.