Dive Details

Location

Date

05 July, 2008

Time

10:02am - 11:07am

Details

Headed south along the wall with the rising tide and returned along the wall after the tide turned.

Buddy

David and Zan, St George Underwater.

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5m

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

13.5 m

Average depth

7.4 m

Water temperature

16.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

4:04am

0.19m

High

10:04am

1.39m

Low

3:38pm

0.43m

High

10:07pm

1.97m

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.

Colony of ascidians, Sycozoa cerebriformis. 8.3 m.
 

Colony of ascidians, Sycozoa cerebriformis. 8.9 m.
 

Soft coral, Carijoa sp. 11.2 m.
 

Soft coral, Carijoa sp. 10.6 m.
 

Sea star, Anthenea sidneyensis. 10.9 m.
 

Colony of ascidians, Clavelina molluccensis. 12.1 m.
 

Sea star, Anthenea sidneyensis. 12.3 m.
 

Sabellid fan worm. 6.3 m.
 

Sabellid fan worm. 6.5 m.
 

Sabellid fan worm. 6.8 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 4.7 m.
 

Dusky butterflyfish, Chaetodon flavirostris. 4.6 m.
 

Purple sponge. 5.3 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.8 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 5 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 5.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 7.9 m.
 

Sabellid fan worm. 7.1 m.
 

Nudibranch. 10.2 m.
 

Colony of ascidians, Sycozoa cerebriformis. 8.9 m.
 

Sea star, Anthenea sidneyensis. 12.6 m.
 

Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.7 m.