Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 18/6/11

Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 18/6/11 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

18 June, 2011

Time

10:12am - 11:15am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Pretty much did the usual dive. Headed in at the boat ramp, down the wall, along the wall, out to and around the bommies, back to the wall and back to the entrance.

I had problems with one of my strobes for the dive. It was firing but not contributing light to the scene. I set it to 1/2 power manual and I was able to limp along. I played with it when I got home an realised that it was firing only on the preflash (when the iTTL determines the exposure) but not for the main flash. The meant it was contributing to the exposure calculation but not the exposure itself. Not sure whether the cable is now faulty or I just hadn't secured it properly. More testing required.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3-8 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

16.5 m

Average depth

10.3 m

Water temperature

15.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:15am

0.32m

High

10:13am

1.35m

Low

3:42pm

0.56m

High

11:13am

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.