Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 10/6/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW

Date

10 June, 2012

Time

1:15pm - 2:23pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the "pool" and headed straight down the wall. Look around on the sand and then went back to the wall. Went all the way alomng the wall to the shallows and then turned and came back, exiting at the "pool".

Buddy

Graeme Heard

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

68 minutes

Maximum depth

15.7 m

Average depth

9.2 m

Water temperature

15.7°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

12:24am

1.68m

Low

7:12am

0.44m

High

1:21pm

1.39m

Low

7:03pm

0.71m

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.


Eye of a reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.3 m.
 

Eye of a reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.3 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 6.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.7 m.
 

Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.5 m.
 

Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.4 m.
 

Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.4 m.