Dive Details

Location

Date

17 December, 2011

Time

11:28am - 12:46pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at The Steps and drifted with the incoming tide north-west to The Monument. Exited at the flagpoles.

Buddy

Graeme Heard

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

73 minutes

Maximum depth

13.6 m

Average depth

9.8 m

Water temperature

18.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

1:51am

1.33m

Low

7:34am

0.58m

High

1:47pm

1.56m

Low

8:27pm

0.37m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

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.

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 10.6 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 10.8 m.
 

Sabellid worm. 10.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.2 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.2 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.5 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 11.6 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 11.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris angasi. 12 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 13.1 m.
 

Shell. 13 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 12.1 m.