Dive Details

Location

Date

03 January, 2009

Time

11:35am - 12:44pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered water at boat ramp and swam around the corner to the west then south. Returned in the same way and exited at the boat ramp.

Buddy

Peter

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

68 minutes

Maximum depth

18.2 m

Average depth

9.3 m

Water temperature

19.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

High

1:30am

1.32m

Low

7:10am

0.61m

High

1:19pm

1.46m

Low

7:55pm

0.42m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

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.

Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 6.4 m.
 

Soft coral. 8.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 10.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10.8 m.
 

Close-up of mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 11.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 12.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 11.8 m.
 

Dendrophyllid stony coral. 12 m.
 

Close-up of mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 12.3 m.
 

Tube worm colony, Filograna sp. 13.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 14.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 17.7 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 17.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 17.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 17.4 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 17.4 m.
 

Sea star. 17.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 13.8 m.
 

Sea anemone, possibly Anthothoe albocincta. 13.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 13.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 14.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 14.4 m.
 

Close-up of mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 13.5 m.
 

Juvenile mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 13.3 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 7.9 m.
 

Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 7.7 m.