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

Dive Details

Location

Date

09 September, 2012

Time

2:37pm - 3:43pm

Buddy

George Borovskis, Peter Jaques

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

15.5 m

Average depth

10.5 m

Water temperature

14.5°C

                                       

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

1:59am

1.09m

Low

7:46am

0.68m

High

2:29pm

1.41m

Low

9:26pm

0.64m

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.


Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.4 m.
 

Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 11 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 12.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11.1 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.4 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 10.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 10.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 10.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.5 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 7.7 m.
 

Banded seaperch, Hypoplectrodes nigroruber. 8.3 m.