Dive Details

Location

Date

29 April, 2012

Time

11:10am - 12:11pm

Details

Dive with Ocean Trek.

Divers on the previous dive had seen a grey nurse shark in the shallows so we went looking for her. We found her almost immediately and then spent 40 minutes of the dive following her around. She was just over 2 metres long and was did not seem too worried about us swimming close. Unfortunately, there was a lot of particulate matter in the water and I did not get any good photographs.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

13.0 m

Average depth

6.9 m

Water temperature

18.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Jervis Bay AEST

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

High

1:07am

1.47m

Low

8:09am

0.50m

High

2:21pm

1.16m

Low

7:49pm

0.73m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro Fisheye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.15 (without shade)

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.

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 6.5 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8.2 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 7.4 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 7.9 m.
 

Grey nurse shark, Carcharias taurus. 7.8 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 5.5 m.
 

Eastern blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 5.1 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 5.7 m.