Dive Details

Location

Date

06 February, 2011

Time

10:23am - 11:13am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at The Steps and headed east towards The Leap, turning when I reached 100 bar. Visibility was quite poor, especially considering the westerly winds and rising tide. There was a lot of brown/green snot in the water.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat but some surge

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

50 minutes

Maximum depth

14.1 m

Average depth

10.9 m

Water temperature

15.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:49am

0.47m

High

11:07am

1.61m

Low

5:30pm

0.38m

High

11:36pm

1.42m

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.

Rock flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasus. 7.5 m.
 

Head of rock flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasus. 7.5 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11.1 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Chromodoris splendida. 11.2 m.
 

Blue dragon nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 10.7 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral with tentacles extended. 13.2 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 13,3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.7 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 12.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10.9 m.