Dive Details

Location

Date

11 March, 2011

Time

7:25pm - 8:29pm

Details

Dived on my own. Entered at the submarine cable and headed east along the rock/sand line. Turned after 30 minutes and came back along the sand.

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

5.9 m

Average depth

3.3 m

Water temperature

22.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:51am

1.51m

Low

7:22am

0.59m

High

1:14pm

1.21m

Low

7:01pm

0.62m

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.

Juvenile flathead, Platycephalus sp. 2.5 m.
 

Stingaree. 5.1 m
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 2.4 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 2.3 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 2.6 m.
 

Stingaree. 2 m
 

Hermit crab, 2.4 m.
 

Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 2.3 m.