Dive Details

Location

Date

06 December, 2009

Time

10:23am - 11:10am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Headed towards The Leap and back along the sand line.

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

45 minutes

Maximum depth

12.2 m

Average depth

9.9 m

Water temperature

20.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay

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

Low

5:33am

0.45m

High

12:03pm

1.89m

Low

6:54pm

0.22m

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.

Dendophylliid stony coral. 9.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 9.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris hunterae. 11 m.
 

Dendophylliid stony coral, possibly Balanophyllia. 11.9 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.3 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.6 m.
 

Stony coral, Balanophyllia sp. 12 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 11 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 11.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 11 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 10.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 9.7 m.