Dive Details

Location

Date

24 September, 2011

Time

11:34am - 12:35pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the "boat ramp" and headed west and south-west around the reef heaidng for the second (west) reef. Didn't make it all the way and returned the way we'd come.

Buddy

Martin

Seas

Flat

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

17.4 m

Average depth

9.9 m

Water temperature

15.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

5:23am

1.29m

Low

11:06am

0.48m

High

5:30pm

1.66m

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.2 m.
 

Eartern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 7.6 m.