Dive Details

Location

Date

02 April, 2011

Time

11:09am - 12:03pm

Details

Entered at the rocks at the start of the loader. Headed out between the pylons of the loader to the end. Headed west and then back along the big anchor chain to the big anchor, then back towards the pylons and to the entry point.

Buddy

Peter Jaques

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

48 minutes

Maximum depth

10.4 m

Average depth

7.1 m

Water temperature

21.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Port Kembla AEDT

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

Low

2:20am

0.46m

High

8:27am

1.47m

Low

2:39pm

0.38m

High

6:52pm

1.49m

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.

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 3.4 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 3.7 m.
 

Giant cuttlfish, Sepia apama. 6 m.
 

Giant cuttlfish, Sepia apama. 8.2 m.
 

Eye of a giant cuttllefish, Sepia apama. 8.8 m.
 

Giant cuttlfish, Sepia apama. 9.4 m.
 

Giant cuttlfish, Sepia apama. 8.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlfish, Sepia apama. 8.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.8 m.