Dive Details

Location

Date

15 December, 2012

Time

10:49am - 11:55am

Details

Entered at "the pool" and headed down the wall. Swam around a couple of the bommies, including the one with the plaque and then back to the wall. Headed up into shallow water and then returned at around 8 metres, exiting at "the pool".

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Calm

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

15.9 m

Average depth

10.3 m

Water temperature

18.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:56am

0.32m

High

10:29am

2.03m

Low

5:11pm

0.10m

High

11:12pm

1.43m

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.

Fortesque, Centropogon australis. 15.8 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.9 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 12.8 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Ceratosoma amoena. 12.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.1 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 11.9 m. Note the small nudibranch on the face.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 11.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 11.8 m. Note the small nudibranch on the face.
 

Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 10.5 m.
 

Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 10.4 m.
 

Three-bar porcupinefish, Dicotylichthys punctulatus. 7.5 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.4 m.
 

Banded seaperch, Hypoplectrodes nigroruber. 8.7 m.