Dive Details

Location

Date

31 March, 2012

Time

11:33am - 12:15pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at The Leap and descended to the sand line straight out from Te Leap. We hit the sand line around 30-50 metres south of Seahorse Rock. We headed along the sand line with the boulders until we reached Seahorse Rock, seeing an anglerfish on the way. There were three seahorses there. After Seahorse Rock we started to ascend and make our way to The Steps.

Buddy

Peter Laws

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

3-10 metres

Duration

41 minutes

Maximum depth

21.4 m

Average depth

15.1 m

Water temperature

18.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

2:56am

1.45m

Low

9:53am

0.62m

High

3:53pm

1.14m

Low

9:28pm

0.75m

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.

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 21 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 20.2 m.
 

Anglerfish, Antennarius sp. 20.2 m.
 

Anglerfish, Antennarius sp. 20.2 m.
 

Angglerfish, Antennarius sp. 20.2 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 20.1 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 19.8 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 19.9 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 20.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 18.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 19 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 10.7 m.