Dive Details
Location
Date
18 January, 2013
Time
7:54pm - 10:10pm
Details
Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.
Entered at the beach and looked around the shallows for seahorses, octopus and cuttlefish. We didn't find any seahorses but did see an octopus and a few cuttlefish. Followed the shoreline along and partially around the corner, returning as we started to hit rougher water.
Stopped over the sand on the way back and spent the rest of the dive looking for interesting organisms. We found a number of pyjama squid, a few dumpling squid, a southern bottletail squid (my first), some interesting nudibranchs and a tiny anglerfish.
We exited at the beach.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
3-5 metres
Duration
136 minutes
Maximum depth
6.5 m
Average depth
4.0 m
Water temperature
22.4°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
2:00am
1.44m
Low
8:05am
0.62m
High
2:01pm
1.33m
Low
8:20pm
0.52m
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.
Common Sydey octopus, Octopus tetricus. 2.1 m.
Dusky flathead, Platycephalus fuscus. 1.5 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.1 m.
Snail, Nassarius glans. 3 m.
Stingaree. 6.3 m.
Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 5.6 m.
Hammer octopus, Octopus australis. 5.8 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris aureopurpurea. 6.1 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 5.9 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 5.9 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 4.2 m.
Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 4.3 m.
Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 4.2 m.
Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 4.1 m.
Striped anglerfish, Antennarius striatus. 4.2 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 4.2 m.
Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 3.4 m.
Nudibranch, Onchidoris sp. 3.1 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 2.4 m.