Dive at Oak Park, Cronulla, NSW on Friday 8 April 2011

Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 8 April 2011

Time

7:13pm - 8:23pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the channel to the south of the pool and headed along the reef. George and I didn't get very far when George discovered a pygmy pipehorse and we spent the rest of the dive taking photographs of it and other things in the area. The pipehorse didn't seem too worried about the photographs as it could be seen feeding most of the time.

The swell and current had picked up for our exit and we got out too far south and were washed onto the rocks. Luckily we weren't hurt, although I lost the neoprene cover for my dome port and George's focus light stopped working.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

69 minutes

Maximum depth

8.5 m

Average depth

7.2 m

Water temperature

21.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

5:16am

0.50m

High

11:12am

1.27m

Low

4:49pm

0.61m

High

11:20pm

1.62m

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.