Dive Details
Location
Date
04 November, 2012
Time
10:36am - 11:31am
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at The Leap and headed straight to the sand line. Followed the sand line north looking for anglerfish. No anglers found but we found a male weedy seadragon covered in eggs. I have never seen one with so many eggs.
Stopped at "Seahorse Rock" and looked very carefully for the usual seahorses. We managed to find "Bob" on the low rock next to "Seahorse Rock" but could not find "Golden Girl" or "Francesco".
Continued along the sand line carefully looking for seahorses. At the rock where "Southern Cross" is usually seen we manged to first find a golden male (now called "Richie"), then "Southern Cross" and finally a new male, "Kel". I can't tell of "Richie" is the same male we found on 22 September because I only photographed him from the right back then and I only have him from the left this time. I will have to make an effort next time to get him from both sides.
We exited at The Steps.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
5-10 metres
Duration
55 minutes
Maximum depth
22.0 m
Average depth
16.6 m
Water temperature
15.8°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
12:15am
1.21m
Low
5:47am
0.61m
High
12:16pm
1.57m
Low
7:02pm
0.49m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D7000
Lens
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter
Housing
Ikelite 6801.70
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50
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.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 20.3 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 20.3 m.
Male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, with eggs. 20.9 m.
Male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, with eggs. 20.9 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Bob"). 20.7 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.3 m.
Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Southern Cross"). 18 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Richie"). 17.5 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Kel"). 17.6 m.