Dive at Gorgeous Reef, Henry Head, NSW on 14/7/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

14 July, 2012

Time

12:07pm - 1:08pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre on board Aquatic Explorers boat.

Headed down from the back of the boat and to the sand line. Followed the sand line south with the reef on our left and out among the bommies. Turned at 120 bar and retured to the boat.

Buddy

Marc Werner

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15 metres

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

17.7 m

Average depth

10.4 m

Water temperature

14.9°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

4:30am

1.17m

Low

10:13am

0.63m

High

4:59pm

1.56m

Low

11:49pm

0.63m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51

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.


Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 8.1 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 9.8 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 10.5 m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 11.3 m.
 

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 13.1 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 16 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 16.3 m.
 

Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17 m.
 

Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.1 m.
 

Weedy sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 16.3 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 9.8 m.