Dive Details

Location

Date

13 April, 2008

Time

10:48am - 11:58am

Buddy

Keith, St George Underwater

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5m

Duration

70 minutes

Maximum depth

12.2 m

Average depth

9.8 m

Water temperature

19.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay

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

High

2:00am

1.64m

Low

9:11am

0.46m

High

3:20pm

1.18m

Low

8:41pm

0.71m

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.

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 11.2 m.
 

Pot-belly seahorse, Hippocampus bleekeri. 11 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 10.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 10.6 m.
 

Soft coral, Carijoa sp. 11.2 m.
 

Feather duster worm (Sabellidae). 10.4 m.
 

Sponges. 10.9 m.
 

Sponge. 10.3 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.2 m.
 

Two reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11 m.
 

Two reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.2 m.
 

Two reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.3 m.
 

Pot-belly seahorse, Hippocampus bleekeri. 10.9 m.
 

Stony coral (Dendrophylliidae). 11.8 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 11.7 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.4 m.
 

Feather duster worm (Sabellidae). 7 m.