Dive Details
Location
Date
04 January, 2013
Time
7:37pm - 10:00pm
Details
Entered at the beach and checked out the shallows near the pier first. Moved along the shoreline all the way to where the pleurobranchs normally are but they weren't there. Came back slowly along the shoreline checking out the sand and seagrass beds. Spent most of the dive in the clean sand near the Posidonia seagrass beds looking for octopus and squid. Sheree found a blue-lined octopus and then a striped pyjama squid. Exited at the beach after a 2 hour 21 minute dive.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
3-5 metres
Duration
141 minutes
Maximum depth
4.8 m
Average depth
3.2 m
Water temperature
21.6°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
1:41am
1.39m
Low
7:31am
0.60m
High
1:38pm
1.47m
Low
7:05pm
0.42m
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.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.1 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.2 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.1 m.
Velvetfish, Aploactisoma milesii. 3.3 m.
Velvetfish, Aploactisoma milesii. 3.2 m.
Prawn, Melicertus sp. 3.2 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.2 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.4 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.4 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.4 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.4 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.4 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.4 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.5 m.
Tiger pipefish, Filicampus tigris. 3.6 m.
Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.7 m.
Prawn, Melicertus sp. 3.6 m.
Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 3.7 m.
Numbray, Hypnos monopterygium. 3.7 m.
Sea hare, Syphonota geographica. 3.7 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.8 m.
Prawn, Melicertus sp. 3.8 m.
Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 2.6 m.
Short-fin eel, Anguilla australis. 3 m.