Dive Details

Location

Date

25 April, 2011

Time

10:37am - 11:24am

Details

Entered in the small bay on the north west tip of the island and swam west to the sand line. We then headed along the sand line to the south east and ended up on top of the wall. We descended the wall and headed south east to find the spot where Michael McFadyen has found pygmy pipehorses. We only had a quick look in the area and had to head back. We ascended the wall and swam around the reef and back to the "boat ramp" near the bridge.

Buddy

Graeme Heard

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

47 minutes

Maximum depth

17.9 m

Average depth

10.7 m

Water temperature

20.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

1:45am

1.55m

Low

8:45am

0.55m

High

2:52pm

1.22m

Low

8:20pm

0.78m

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.

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 12.3 m.
 

Close-up of mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 12.4 m.
 

Sponge. 12.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 17.4 m.
 

Denrophylliid stony coral. 17.7 m.
 

Denrophylliid stony coral. 17.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 17.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 10.5 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 10.5 m.