Dive Details

Location

Date

31 December, 2012

Time

10:39am - 11:58am

Details

Entered at the pool and went straight down the wall. Swam around the bommies and them back to the wall. Continued up to the shallows and then returned between 8 and 10 metres. Spent the end of the dive in the shallows just below the pool, exiting at the pool.

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5+ metres

Duration

79 minutes

Maximum depth

16.7 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

20.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:25am

0.49m

High

10:53am

1.74m

Low

5:29pm

0.34m

High

11:29pm

1.32m

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 daphne. 15.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 15.4 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 14.7 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 14.2 m.
 

Mosaic leatherjacket, Eubalichthys mosaicus. 13.4 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.6 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 11.6 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.4 m.
 

Eye of a Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.6 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 8.6 m.
 

Red seaperch, Pseudanthias cooperi. 7.5 m.