Dive Details

Location

Date

02 October, 2009

Time

7:38pm - 8:28pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the rock and headed right. I pottered around on the bottom finding many subjects to photograph and didn't get very far.

Buddy

Lock Percy

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

50 minutes

Maximum depth

14.8 m

Average depth

11.5 m

Water temperature

15.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

12:48am

0.37m

High

6:54am

1.41m

Low

12:50pm

0.45m

High

7:00pm

1.56m

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.2 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 14.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.3 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 14.3 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 14.5 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 13.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja tenuilineata. 14.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja tenuilineata. 13.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus, with crab. 13.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.7 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 13.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.8 m.