Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 1/6/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

01 June, 2012

Time

5:43pm - 6:54pm

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

Marc Werner

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5+ metres

Duration

70 minutes

Maximum depth

13.9 m

Average depth

11.2 m

Water temperature

16.7°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

4:54am

1.50m

Low

10:59am

0.40m

High

5:31pm

1.77m

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.


Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 11.7 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 12.8 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 12.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 12.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 12.8 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 12.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 12.6 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 12.5 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 12.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 13.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium poindimiei. 13.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 13.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 13.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 12.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 11.3 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus.-11.1 m.
 

Decorator crab. 10.6 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 13 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 13 m.
 

Sleeping parrotfish, Scarus sp. 4.6 m.