Dive Details

Location

Date

26 February, 2010

Time

7:34pm - 8:39pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the usual spot and descended down the wall. Spent most of the dive around the first few bommies.

Buddy

George B

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

16.9 m

Average depth

12.0 m

Water temperature

23.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

12:27am

0.48m

High

7:00am

1.80m

Low

1:47pm

0.26m

High

7:45pm

1.37m

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.

Fortesque, Centropogon australis, 14.2 m.
 

Hermit crab. 14.3 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 15.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 15 m.
 

Tiny reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14.8 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 14.4 m.
 

Mating blue swimmer crabs, Portunus pelagicus. 14.3 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 14.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14.2 m.
 

Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 14.7 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 13.9 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 13.9 m.
 

Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 14.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.3 m.
 

Hermit crab. 10.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.6 m.
 

Male eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae with eggs. 4.4 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 4.4 m.
 

Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 4.7 m.
 

Male eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae with eggs. 4.4 m.
 

Male eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae with eggs. 4.4 m.