Dive Details

Location

Date

02 April, 2010

Time

11:12am - 12:14pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the boat ramp as usual and drifted with the incoming tide up the reef, returning at around 120 bar.

Another dive to test out the new Tokina 10-17 fisheye lens. I'm stll getting used to the lens and I keep forgetting to zoom in.

Buddy

Bobby

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

14.9 m

Average depth

8.8 m

Water temperature

20.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

5:42am

0.31m

High

11:42am

1.40m

Low

5:25pm

0.48m

High

11:53pm

1.77m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro Fisheye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.15 (without shade)

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.

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.2 m.
 

Sea star, Anthenea sidneyensis. 14.4 m.
 

Hermit crab. 13.8 m.
 

Red rcok cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 12.4 m.
 

Eastuary catfish, Cnidoglanis macrocephala. 12.4 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 12.6 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 10.5 m.
 

Soft coral, Carijoa sp. 9.1 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 6.4 m.
 

Fan-belly leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis. 8 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 8.6 m.
 

Sabellid worms. 8.3 m.