Dive Details

Location

Date

28 March, 2013

Time

7:29pm - 9:12pm

Details

Entered the water at the beach and pottered around the shallows to the right edging our way north. Went all the way to where the pleurobranchs are often found but there were none there. Sheree found a blue-line octopus on the way back on the coarse sand. We wathed it for a while but it disappeared into the sand. The water got quite cold in parts. There were lots of small frogfish around. There was a school of calamri squid just before we exited at the beach.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

102 minutes

Maximum depth

6.6 m

Average depth

4.1 m

Water temperature

18.9°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.

Low

3:36am

0.31m

High

9:44am

1.67m

Low

3:49pm

0.29m

High

10:06pm

1.78m

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.

Octopus, Octopus sp. 3.1 m.
 

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.7 m.
 

Silver-sided weedfish, Cristiceps argyropleura. 2.9 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.2 m.
 

Crab. 4.3 m.
 

Zebra lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra. 3.8 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 5.4 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 5.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5 m.
 

Hermit crab, Dardanus pedunculatus. 4.7 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.7 m.
 

Velvetfish, Aploactisoma milesii. 4.1 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 3.7 m.
 

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.1 m.
 

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.1 m.