Dive Details

Location

Date

10 February, 2008

Time

10:26am - 11:26am

Details

This was my first dive using the new D300 in its housing. Sydney had received a lot of rain recently and the seas had been quite rough. Fortunately, the conditions ar Camp Cove were pretty good.

Buddy

Tim Everest

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5m

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

7.5 m

Average depth

4.5 m

Water temperature

21.8°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

Low

4:59am

0.35m

High

11:16am

1.73m

Low

5:41pm

0.24m

High

11:51pm

1.54m

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.

White's Seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp., possibly S. mestus. 5 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 5.1 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 5.2 m.
 

Tunicate with encrusting sponge. 5 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 5.6 m.
 

Collector sea urchin, Pseudoboletia indiana. 5.3 m
 

Collector sea urchin, P. indiana. 5.3 m
 

Coral, Plesiastrea versipora. 6.4 m.
 

Sponge. 6.2 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 5.5 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 5.5 m.