Dive Details

Location

Date

20 August, 2011

Time

12:18pm - 1:24pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

This was another trial dive with a dry suit. The suit leaked a very small amount via the sleeves but I stayed dry. I was cold at one point but that was because I wasn't wearing enough under the suit.

Entered at the boat ramp as normal. The water was only reasonably clear and we made our way up the reef slowly. I spent most of the dive photographing nudibranchs.

Buddy

Peter Aitkin

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

15.2 m

Average depth

9.6 m

Water temperature

15.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

5:49am

0.53m

High

12:20pm

1.40m

Low

6:36pm

0.65m

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.

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 13.9 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 13.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne on ascidian, Clavelina pseudobaudinensis. 14.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 8.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 7.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 7.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 7.4 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 8.1 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.9 m.