Dive Details

Location

Date

29 December, 2012

Time

8:20am - 9:15am

Details

Entered at The Leap and headed straight to the sand line. Swam along the sand line towards Seahorse Rock. Found the cowrie along the way. Also found a red brick sea star with barnacles growing on it.

Checked out Seahorse Rock quickly but didn't find any seahorses. Checked out the low rock north of Seahorse Rock and found "Bob". There's still no sign of "Rosie".

Checked out the basket star and then on to "Southern Cross" who was there with "Richie" and "Kel". After leaving "Southern Cross", we checked out the sponge covered rocks we'd look at on the previous dive from The Steps hoping to find either the anglerfish or "Golden Girl". We found neither. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

55 minutes

Maximum depth

22.2 m

Average depth

15.0 m

Water temperature

19.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

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, Chromodoris tasmaniensis. 15.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 21.3 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni, with barnacles. 21.9 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Ceratosoma amoena. 21.6 m.
 

Spindle cowrie, Phenacovolva. 20.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris thompsoni. 21.4 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Bob"). 20.7 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 18.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 18.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 18.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 19 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Southern Cross"). 18 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Richie"). 17.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Kel"). 18 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 15.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 13.2 m.