Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 4/5/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

04 May, 2012

Time

6:47pm - 8:01pm

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

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

73 minutes

Maximum depth

15.6 m

Average depth

11.4 m

Water temperature

20.6°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

12:16am

0.41m

High

6:16am

1.61m

Low

12:24pm

0.32m

High

6:49pm

1.82m

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, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 13.1 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 12.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.5 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 11 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 10.2 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 11 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 10.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.7 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 5 m.
 

Goatfish, Upeneichthys sp. 4.1 m.