Dive Details

Location

Date

11 February, 2011

Time

8:01pm - 9:37pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the beach and headed NNW along the wall, staying fairly shallow. We found plenty to photograph along the way. There was a huge number of octopus as well as cuttlefish, frogfish and many other interesting organisms. A brilliant dive.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

95 minutes

Maximum depth

5.0 m

Average depth

3.1 m

Water temperature

23.3°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.

High

2:20am

1.41m

Low

8:46am

0.68m

High

2:32pm

1.14m

Low

8:30pm

0.63m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D +4 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.

Octopus, Octopus sp. in a bottle. 2.6 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.7 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.8 m.
 

Sea hare. 2.4 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 2 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 2.1 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 2 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 1.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris denisoni. 2.2 m,
 

Eunicid polychaete. 2.5 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 1.7 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.3 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 3.7 m.
 

Flutemouth, Fistularia. 4.5 m.
 

Flutemouth, Fistularia. 4.2 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.6 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 4.6 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 4.6 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 4.6 m.
 

Eye of a numbray Hypnos monopterygium. 4.6 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 4.6 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.4 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 4.2 m.
 

Squid. 3.8 m.
 

Velvetfish, Aploactisoma milesii. 2.5 m.