Dive Details

Location

Date

22 September, 2012

Time

11:02am - 11:56am

Details

Entered at "The Leap" and went straight to the sand line. Followed the sand line to Seahorse Rock. It took nearly 10 minutes to find the regular three seahorses. (Sheree was the one that found them.) We then went to look for "Southern Cross". It took a long time to find her on her rock but after reviewing the photographs it turns out I found a male with similar markings. After leaving "Southern Cross"'s rock, Sheree found an anchor but could not carry it with the chain attached and the "D" link was rusted closed so she left it behind. We exited at The Steps.

Unfortunately, the camera was playing up and many of the photographs were over exposed. I managed to recover a few.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

53 minutes

Maximum depth

21.6 m

Average depth

15.1 m

Water temperature

14.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

12:40am

1.27m

Low

6:28am

0.50m

High

1:03pm

1.64m

Low

7:56pm

0.41m

Video

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.

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 19 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 20.5 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Golden Girl"). 20.8 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Bob"). 20.4 m.
 

Pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Francesco"). 20.7 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. 18.1 m.