Dive Details
Location
Date
17 November, 2012
Time
10:13am - 11:29am
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at The Steps and went straight down to the sand line. Followed the sand line - or close to it - all the way to The Monument. Looked very carefully for seahorses all the way and only found 3 together basically at The Monument. Exited just around the corner over the rocks before the beach.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
10 metres
Duration
76 minutes
Maximum depth
13.7 m
Average depth
10.9 m
Water temperature
16.3°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
5:04am
0.38m
High
11:35am
1.94m
Low
6:21pm
0.16m
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 cuttelfish, Sepia mestus. 11.3 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 12 m.
Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 12 m.
Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 11.5 m.
Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 12.1 m.
Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 12 m.
Nudibranchs, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 11.9 m.
Bubble snail, Hydatina physis. 10.3 m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 12.3 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 10.9 m.
Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 10.9 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Fernando"). 12.4 m.
Female potbellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Lisa"). 12.3 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Kimi"). 11.7 m.
Female potbellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Lisa"). 12 m.
Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 12.2 m.
Eastern smoorth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 13.7 m.