Dive Details

Location

Date

17 April, 2010

Time

10:01am - 11:06am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the boat ramp as usual and drifted with the incoming tide up the reef, turning around at around 100 bar.

Buddy

Keith

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

16.5 m

Average depth

10.2 m

Water temperature

20.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:05am

0.39m

High

10:04am

1.36m

Low

3:44pm

0.52m

High

10:13pm

1.77m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 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.

Truncate coralfish, Chelmonops truncatus. 14.5 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 14.4 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 14.5 m.
 

Truncate coralfish, Chelmonops truncatus. 12.5 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 12.6 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.1 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8.6 m.
 

Sabellid tube worm. 7.3 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 8 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 7.9 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8 m.
 

Maori rockcod, Epinephelus undulatostriatus. 7.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.9 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 10.6 m.