Dive Details

Location

Date

05 March, 2011

Time

9:24am - 10:39am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the boat ramp and descended the wall. Moved along the wall slowly and then out to the bommie near the pineapplefish where there were two seahorses. Made a short trip back to the wall and then returned at around 10m.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

A bit choppy from the wind

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

74 minutes

Maximum depth

16.7 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

22.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay (AEDT)

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

Low

3:18am

0.44m

High

9:35am

1.61m

Low

3:42pm

0.38m

High

9:58pm

1.49m

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.

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13.6 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 15 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 14.4 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 14.7 m.
 

Fortesque, Centropogon australis. 15.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 12.8 m.
 

Ring-scale threefish, Enneapterygius annulatus. 12.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 7.3 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.8 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.7 m.
 

Orange reef-goby, Priolepis nuchifasciata. 4.4 m.