Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 20/4/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

20 April, 2012

Time

7:55pm - 8:59pm

Details

Entered at the "pool" and descended the wall. Poked around the sand for a while and then checked out the base of the wall. Returned along the base of the wall and then back to the "pool".

Buddy

Graeme Heard and Peter Laws

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3-4 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

14.8 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

20.1°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

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.


Hermit crab. 14 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 13.3 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 13.6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 12.1 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 11.6 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 9.6 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 10.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.5 m.
 

Eye of a reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.7 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.2 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 13.2 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 13.3 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 11.4 m.
 

Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 4.3 m.