Dive Details

Location

Date

04 June, 2011

Time

9:44am - 10:50am

Details

It had been raining heavily most of the week so there was a good chance that the water was going to be very dirty. I entered at the boat ramp as usual and the water didn't look too bad. It got a little worse on descending down the wall but was still better than it could have been. I spent most of the dive out on the sand off the southern corner looking for interesting things. I spotted an eastern spiny gurnard which let me take many photos. There were also a lot of cuttlefish around.

Seas

Flat

Visibility

1 to 3 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

15.0 m

Average depth

11.4 m

Water temperature

16.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:01am

0.39m

High

9:59am

1.32m

Low

3:28pm

0.57m

High

10:00pm

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.

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13.2 m.
 

Eastern spiny gurnard, Lepidotrigla pleuracanthica. 13.7 m.
 

Eastern spiny gurnard, Lepidotrigla pleuracanthica. 13.8 m.
 

Eye of an estuary catfish, Cnidoglanis macrocephala. 12.8 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.6 m.
 

Eye of a reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.3 m.
 

Eye of a reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 8.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 4 m.
 

Eye of a fiddler ray, Trygonrrhina fasciata. 3.6 m.