Dive Details

Location

Date

13 May, 2011

Time

7:42pm - 8:34pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered south of the pool and headed out along the reef, turning and returning the same way. I was hoping we'd go past the area where we'd seen the pygmy pipehorse but we seemed to have missed it completely.

Buddy

Ken Bradley

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

52 minutes

Maximum depth

9.9 m

Average depth

6.7 m

Water temperature

18.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

4:00am

1.59m

Low

10:25am

0.38m

High

4:49pm

1.58m

Low

10:58pm

0.52m

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, Aphelodoris varia. 7.5 m.
 

Eye of a giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.5 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 9 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 9.3 m.
 

Eye of a red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8.1 m.
 

Eye of a red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 7.3 m.
 

Eye of a stingaree. 6.9 m.
 

Stingaree. 6.9 m.
 

Eye of a fiddler ray, Trygonrrhina fasciata. 4.9 m.