Dive Details
Location
Date
29 April, 2011
Time
6:22pm - 7:24pm
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at the boat ramp as usual and headed down the wall. Swam out from the wall towards the bommie that had seahorses in March and spent most of the dive on the sand looking for nudibranchs. Saw red and orange Plocamorpherus imperialis nudibranchs for the first time. Headed back to the wall and back to the boat ramp to finish the dive.
Buddy
George Borovskis
Seas
Flat
Visibility
3 to 5 metres
Duration
61 minutes
Maximum depth
16.2 m
Average depth
12.8 m
Water temperature
19.8°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
5:32am
1.42m
Low
11:46am
0.53m
High
6:09pm
1.50m
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.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 14.4 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 13.3 m.
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 13.9 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.7 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.6 m.
Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 15.2 m.
Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 15.1 m.
Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 14.6 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.8 m.
Hermit crab. 15.3 m.
Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 14.9 m.
Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 14.9 m.
Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 14.9 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 9.8 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 7.6 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 7.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 7.7 m.
Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 6.4 m.
Eye of a stingaree. 5 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.9 m.