Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 29/12/09 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

29 December, 2009

Time

7:10pm - 8:10pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at boat ramp and headed south then west until 100 bar. Retured via the same route.

Buddy

Rowan and John

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

58 minutes

Maximum depth

15.5 m

Average depth

10.4 m

Water temperature

21.1°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

12:04am

0.49m

High

6:45am

1.69m

Low

1:31pm

0.41m

High

7:19pm

1.25m

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.


Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 14 m.
 

Ascidians, Sycozoa cerebriformis. 13.5 m.
 

Sea slug, Umbraculum umbraculum. 12.7 m.
 

Sea slug, Umbraculum umbraculum. 12.8 m.
 

Fortesque, Centropogon australis. 12.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 12.1 m.
 

Sea slug, Umbraculum umbraculum. 11.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 11.9 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 4.8 m.