Dive Details

Location

Date

13 August, 2010

Time

8:10pm - 9:19pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered off the rocks and swam north to and around the "island".

Buddy

Lock

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

67 minutes

Maximum depth

7.6 m

Average depth

3.8 m

Water temperature

14.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

4:23am

0.13m

High

10:36am

1.63m

Low

4:38pm

0.27m

High

10:49pm

1.71m

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.

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 3.8 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 3.7 m.
 

Numbfish, Hypnos monopterygium, under the sand. 4.1 m.
 

Eyes of a numbfish, Hypnos monopterygium. 4.0 m.
 

Rock flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasus. 2.9 m.
 

Rock flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasus. 2.9 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 4 m.
 

Sea urchin, Pseudoboletia indiana. 5 m.
 

Spider crab. 3.8 m.
 

Spider crab. 3.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 4 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 6 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 6.6 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 4.1 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 4.3 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 3.4 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.5 m.