Dive Details

Location

Date

16 October, 2009

Time

7:43pm - 8:44pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the rock and headed right. We turned around when I got to 100 bar.

Buddy

Matt

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

15.1 m

Average depth

11.3 m

Water temperature

17.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:17am

0.24m

High

7:29am

1.56m

Low

1:25pm

0.32m

High

7:43pm

1.63m

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.

Sea pen, Cavernularia obesa. 4.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 14.4 m.
 

Frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 14.3 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 13.9 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 13.6 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Tambja tenuilineata. 13.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 13.7 m.
 

Sponge crab, Stimdromia lamellata. 13.3 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Tambja verconis. 13.3 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 14.5 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 12.8 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 12.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja tenuilineata. 13.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja tenuilineata. 13.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja tenuilineata. 13.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11.4 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 11.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11.4 m.
 

Hermit crab. 10.8 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 13.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 14.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.8 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 12.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 11.2 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.5 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 2.2 m.