Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 18/5/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

18 May, 2012

Time

6:54pm - 8:03pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the "pool" and went straight down the wall. Followed the base of the wall and the nearby boulders for around 50 minutes and then headed back.

Buddy

Mo

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

68 minutes

Maximum depth

15.9 m

Average depth

11.3 m

Water temperature

17.8°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

12:39am

0.59m

High

6:27am

1.36m

Low

12:18pm

0.54m

High

6:51pm

1.67m

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, Glossodoris atromarginata. 13.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.8 m.
 

Blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 12.9 m.
 

Umbrella snail, Umbraculum umbraculum. 12.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 12.9 m.
 

Decorator crab. 13.1 m.
 

Decorator crab. 13.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 12.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.9 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 10.2 m.
 

Zebra lionfosh, Dendrochirus zebra. 9.2 m.
 

Decorator crab. 10.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 12.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 12.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 4.4 m.