Dive Details

Location

Date

10 March, 2013

Time

10:04am - 11:06am

Details

Club dive with St George Underwater Centre.

Entered on the northern side of the island, near to the north west tip. Descended to the sand line and then headed west along the reef and up over the rock platform near the anchor. Veered to the north west and down the ramp. Headed around the corner and then south-east along the reef. I had never been here before and the area was full of sponges. I'd hope to find some seahorses but didn't see any. Turned at 100 bar and came back more or less the way we went out but a bit shallower and cut the corner a bit. Exited at the "boat ramp".

Buddy

Christian

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

17.8 m

Average depth

10.2 m

Water temperature

18.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:43am

0.38m

High

8:04am

1.78m

Low

2:34pm

0.25m

High

8:37pm

1.54m

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.

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 7.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 9.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 10.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 11.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 12 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 13.5 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 13.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 13.7 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.1 m.