Dive Details

Location

Date

30 June, 2012

Time

11:43am - 12:38pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered from the shelf just to the south of The Leap. Headed straight down to the sand line and then north along the sand line. Found a weedy seadragon before reaching Seahorse Rock. All three seahorses were at Seahorse Rock. The golden female was on the low rock just to the south and the two males were together on the side of Seahorse Rock facing the low rock. Found the "Southern Cross" female on her usual flat rock to 50-100 metres north of Seahorse Rock. We aslo found a juvenile weedy seadragon and a large male Port Jackson shark.

Buddy

Marc Werner

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

21.4 m

Average depth

15.5 m

Water temperature

16.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

4:35am

1.37m

Low

10:30am

0.45m

High

5:10pm

1.79m

Low

11:53pm

0.42m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 20.8 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 20.6 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 20.1 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 19.9 m.
 

Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 19.6 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 17.3 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 17.7 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 17.8 m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 17.9 m.