Dive Details

Location

Date

26 October, 2012

Time

7:02pm - 8:13pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at "the pool" and headed down the wall. Followed the wall around at the sand line towards the shallows and then returned.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

70 minutes

Maximum depth

14.4 m

Average depth

10.1 m

Water temperature

16.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

12:30am

0.39m

High

6:44am

1.46m

Low

12:53pm

0.49m

High

6:57pm

1.46m

Video

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

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. 13.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 12.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 13.6 m.
 

Sponge decorator crab, Hyastenus elatus. 12.9 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 9.2 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 9.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris obscura. 9.6 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 10 m.
 

Umbrella shell, Umbraculum umbraculum. 11 m.
 

Sponge decorator crab, Hyastenus elatus. 9.8 m.
 

Prawn, Melicertus sp. 4.4 m.
 

Prawn, Melicertus sp. 4.4 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 4.3 m.