Dive Details

Location

Date

21 May, 2010

Time

7:55pm - 9:22pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered near the submarine cable, headed east along the sand line and returned to the entry point.

Buddy

George B.

Seas

Slight to choppy

Visibility

3-10 metres

Duration

85 minutes

Maximum depth

5.3 m

Average depth

3.2 m

Water temperature

19.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

1:38am

1.67m

Low

8:30am

0.41m

High

2:45pm

1.39m

Low

8:28pm

0.66m

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.

Brush-tail toadfish, Torquigener squamicauda. 1.4 m.
 

Worm? 2.7 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 2.8 m.
 

Three-bar porcupinefish, Dicotylichthys punctulatus. 2.9 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 5.1 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 3.5 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 3.5 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 3.5 m.
 

Sabellid tube worm. 3.3 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 2.8 m.
 

Blind shark, Brachaelurus waddi. 2.3 m.
 

Blind shark, Brachaelurus waddi. 2.2 m.
 

Blind shark, Brachaelurus waddi. 2.2 m.
 

Blind shark, Brachaelurus waddi. 2.2 m.