Dive Details

Location

Date

13 June, 2011

Time

6:23pm - 7:27pm

Details

Entered at the boat ramp as usual and headed down the wall. Traveled along the wall a short way and then headed out to the bombies looking around the sand. Turned around at 100 bar and headed back at 10m.

Buddy

Tim

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

15.6 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

15.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

5:45am

1.40m

Low

11:33am

0.44m

High

6:13pm

1.86m

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.

Three-bar porcupinefish, Dicotylichthys punctulatus. 6.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 12.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.6 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 14.1 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 14.4 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 15.2 m.
 

Tiny juvenile dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 14.5 m.
 

Numbray, Hypnos monopterygium. 14.4 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 13.8 m.
 

Ascidian, Sycozoa cerebriformis. 13.5 m.
 

Eye of a wobbegong. Orectolobus maculatus. 13 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12 m.
 

Eye of a fan-bellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis. 12.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 9.9 m.
 

Sea star, Astropecten polyacanthus. 5.7 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.6 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.6 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.7 m.
 

Sleeping parrotfish, Scarus sp. 4.6 m.