Dive Details

Location

Date

28 January, 2013

Time

9:44am - 10:53am

Details

Entered at the pool and descended the wall. Swam along the wall, out to the bommies and then back to the wall. Swam right up into the shallows before turning and coming back between 7 and 10 metres. Exited at the pool.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Peter Jaques

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

68 minutes

Maximum depth

15.7 m

Average depth

9.6 m

Water temperature

21.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:30am

0.43m

High

9:56am

1.76m

Low

4:27pm

0.31m

High

10:25pm

1.40m

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.

Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 5.9 m.
 

Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 15.6 m.
 

Pygmy rockcod, Scorpaenodes scaber. 14.8 m.
 

Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.7 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 10.8 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 8.4 m.
 

Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 8.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 8.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris daphne. 7.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.1 m.
 

Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 6.9 m.