Dive Details
Location
Date
09 April, 2012
Time
9:58am - 11:01am
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at the "pool" area on the opposite side from the old boat ramp and then descended the wall. We hit the water before the tide changed and the current was quite strong. We went out onto the sand and poked around there for a while (finding two pipefish) and then headed back to the wall. Headed along the wall to the shallows and then returned at around 10 metres. Played in the shallows in front of the exit for a while and got out at the pool.
Buddy
John McKeon
Seas
Flat
Visibility
3-6 metres
Duration
63 minutes
Maximum depth
15.3 m
Average depth
9.4 m
Water temperature
20.2°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
4:06am
0.19m
High
10:11am
1.55m
Low
4:00pm
0.36m
High
10:26pm
1.92m
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.
Bent stick pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus. 14.1 m.
Bent stick pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus. 14 m.
Mother-of-pearl pipefish, Vanacampus margaritifer. 13.9 m.
Mother-of-pearl pipefish, Vanacampus margaritifer. 14.1 m.
Mother-of-pearl pipefish, Vanacampus margaritifer. 14.1 m.
Mother-of-pearl pipefish, Vanacampus margaritifer. 14.2 m.
Nudibranch,Ceratosoma amoena. 11.7 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.5 m.
Oyster. 9 m.
Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 8.7 m.
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 8.3 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.9 m.
Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 4.2 m.
Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 4.3 m.
Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 4.2 m.