Dive Details

Location

Date

11 October, 2009

Time

11:20am - 12:33pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the "boat ramp" on the island and swum north to the "mainland" and then west towards the airport. Turned around at 100 bar and returned. Had to surface twice, once early on when we lost our bearings and the second time when we lost Keith.

Buddy

Wendy/Keith

Seas

Slight

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

10.6 m

Average depth

7.2 m

Water temperature

16.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

2:10am

1.14m

Low

7:51am

0.61m

High

2:30pm

1.60m

Low

9:34pm

0.43m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D +4 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.

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 6.3 m.
 

Sea star. 6.7 m.
 

Sea anemone, Anthothoe albocincta. 6.9 m.
 

Sponge. 6.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 7.1 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 9.9 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 10.1 m.
 

Sea anemone, Anthothoe albocincta. 9.5 m.
 

Shell. 9.6 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 9.5 m.
 

Feather duster worm. 9.6 m.