Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 28/9/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

28 September, 2012

Time

7:04pm - 8:09pm

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered at the "pool" and went straight down the wall. Headed along the wall with a couple of excursions across the sand. Returned along the wall at around 8 metres and exited at the "pool".

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

14.7 m

Average depth

11.2 m

Water temperature

15.9°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

12:46am

0.30m

High

6:52am

1.48m

Low

12:53pm

0.39m

High

7:06pm

1.61m

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. 13.7 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 12.9 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 12.8 m.
 

Hermit crab, Diogenidae. 11.8 m.
 

Juvenile blue-lined goatfish, Upeneichthys lineatus. 12.8 m.
 

Sieve-patterned moray eel, Gymnothorax cribroris. 13.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 13.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 13.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 13.5 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 13.3 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus. 13.2 m.
 

Sponge crab. 9.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.9 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 9.2 m.