Dive Details

Location

Date

02 July, 2011

Time

10:22am - 11:27am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at The Steps and headed north-west toward The Monument along the sand line. Turned after around 30 minutes and returned to The Steps.

Buddy

Keith and Marc Werner

Seas

Slight

Visibility

Up to 10 metres

Duration

59 minutes

Maximum depth

11.5 m

Average depth

8.6 m

Water temperature

16.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:00am

0.33m

High

8:54am

1.35m

Low

2:27pm

0.49m

High

9:00pm

1.92m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

Snail shell. 9.1 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 8.7 m.
 

Sergeant baker, Aulopus purpurissatus. 9 m.
 

Sydney cardinalfish, Apogon lineatus. 9.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.2 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.2 m.
 

Ascidian colonies. 11 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 10.9 m.
 

Sponge. 8.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 10.6 m.
 

Dendrophylliid stony coral. 10.8 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 10 m.
 

Sea star. 9.7 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9 m.
 

John Mckeon (right) and student. 3.9 m.