Dive Details
Location
Date
23 April, 2011
Time
12:41pm - 1:51pm
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at the boat ramp as usual and headed down the wall. Checked out the pineapplefish cave off the base of the wall but the pineapplefish was not there - there was only a moray eel and a frogfish. Went out to the bommie where ther seahorses were last time but I could not find them. I did find a large numbray which looked like it had swallowed a football. It was still alive and had a few leeches near its eyes. I headed back to the wall and caught up with Gary. We headed further up and turned at around 100 bar, returning at around a depth of around 10m.
Buddy
Gary
Seas
Flat
Visibility
5 to 10 metres
Duration
70 minutes
Maximum depth
16.2 m
Average depth
10.5 m
Water temperature
20.3°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
6:48am
0.42m
High
12:45pm
1.24m
Low
6:12pm
0.68m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D300
Lens
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D
Housing
Ikelite 6812.3
Lens port
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41
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.
Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 13.4 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 13.3 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.8 m.
Soft coral, Carijoa sp. 14.3 m.
Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 14.5 m.
Leeches behind the eye of a numbray, Hypnos monopterygium. 15.6 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 10.9 m.
Stony coral, Culicia sp. 11.9 m.
Banded seaperch, Hypoplectrodes nigroruber. 11.1 m.
Estuary catfish, Cnidoglanis macrocephala. 8 m.
Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 8 m.
Orange reef-goby, Priolepis nuchifasciata. 4.1 m.
Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 3.9 m.
Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 3.9 m.