Dive at Chowder Bay, Clifton Gardens, NSW on 24/6/11 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

24 June, 2011

Time

7:54pm - 8:55pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the northern corner of the pool and swam along the outside of the net on the north-eastern side under the jetty. We followed the net around the corner to the south-west and then swam through a large whole in the net to the inside of the pool. Swam back along the net on the inside.

Buddy

Wendy

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

3.3 m

Average depth

2.1 m

Water temperature

14.8°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

High

1:53am

1.33m

Low

8:22am

0.59m

High

2:55pm

1.40m

Low

9:04pm

0.78m

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.


Fan-bellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis with parastic isopod. 0.9 m.
 

Fan-bellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis with parastic isopod. 0.9 m.
 

Hinge-back shrimp, Rhynchocinetes serratus. 1.3 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 1.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.9 m.
 

Sponge Crab. 1.9 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.1 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris denisoni. 3.2 m.
 

Anemone. 2.9 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 2.7 m.
 

Sea pen, Cavernularia obesa. 2.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris denisoni. 3.1 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 1 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 0.6 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 1.5 m.