Dive Details

Location

Date

10 December, 2011

Time

10:39am - 12:14pm

Details

This was my first dive with the D7000 in its housing and I was looking for some video subjects.

Entered at the beach and first headed out to the centre reef. Found a blue groper and mourning cuttlfish and got some footage there. I then headed to the eastern shore and headed north along the rock reef. I was buzzed for over a minute by a large school of 60cm+ yellow-tail kingfish but in the exitement I completely failed to get any footage. It is a pity as they came in very close (and fast). Managed to find another mourning cuttlefish and seahorse on the way back to the beach.

See the footage below.

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5+ metres

Duration

94 minutes

Maximum depth

5.9 m

Average depth

4.4 m

Water temperature

18.1°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

Low

2:13am

0.49m

High

8:45am

1.73m

Low

3:25pm

0.35m

High

8:17pm

1.29m

Video

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

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

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

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.

Mourning cuttlfish, Sepia plangon. 5.1 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 5.4 m.
 

Striped catfish, Plotosus lineatus. 5.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlfish, Sepia plangon. 3.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlfish, Sepia plangon. 3.9 m.
 

Mourning cuttlfish, Sepia plangon. 3.9 m.
 

Mourning cuttlfish, Sepia plangon. 3.8 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.5 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.4 m.