Dive Details

Location

Date

21 February, 2010

Time

10:33am - 11:37am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at The Steps and drifted with the current down to The Monument. Exited near the beach.

Buddy

Frank

Seas

Slight

Visibility

2-5 metres

Duration

59 minutes

Maximum depth

13.4 m

Average depth

9.4 m

Water temperature

22.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

1:35am

1.48m

Low

8:00am

0.60m

High

1:50pm

1.20m

Low

7:46pm

0.58m

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.

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 9.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 10.6 m.
 

Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.3 m.
 

Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.4 m.
 

Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 11.5 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 10.3 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 11.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 11 m.
 

Sea anemone, Anthothoe albocincta. 12.2
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 12.2 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 13.2 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 11.7 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.4 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus sp. 6.4 m.