Dive Details
Location
Date
18 September, 2011
Time
10:03am - 10:54am
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered the water on the slope to the north of The Leap. We descended to the sand line and headed towards The Steps with the incoming tide. Visibility was great.
Buddy
Marc Werner
Seas
Flat
Visibility
15+ metres
Duration
50 minutes
Maximum depth
21.8 m
Average depth
15.5 m
Water temperature
15.7°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
5:05am
0.54m
High
11:37am
1.50m
Low
6:08pm
0.56m
High
11:59pm
1.18m
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.
Sea fan. 18.7 m.
Sea fan. 21.4 m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 21.4 m.
Sea star. 21.1 m.
Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 21.1 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 21 m.
Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 20.7 m.
Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 21.2 m.
Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 20.2 m.
Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 19.3 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 19.4 m.
Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 17.6 m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 17.4 m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 16.9 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 13.1 m.