Dive Details

Location

Date

12 April, 2013

Time

6:46pm - 8:30pm

Details

Entered at the beach and swam out under the pier. The visibility was poor with a lot of particulate matter and snot algae floating around. I took a wrong turn and we ended up a short way into the bay, in the shallows. It turned out well as we found juvenile flying gurnard.

Back on under the pier, we went down into deeper water under the pier and found a lot of very cool stuff. That more than made up for the poor visibility.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Flat

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

103 minutes

Maximum depth

8.3 m

Average depth

4.9 m

Water temperature

21.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

3:28am

0.41m

High

9:30am

1.45m

Low

3:17pm

0.49m

High

9:40pm

1.73m

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.

Juvenile flying gurnard, Dactyloptena orientalis. 2.5 m.
 

Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 3.7 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.7 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.6 m.
 

Coiled arm of an Octopus, Octopus. 4.6 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 5.4 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.1 m.
 

Juvenile painted sweetlips, Diagramma labiosum. 7.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 7.5 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 6.4 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 6.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Polycera hedgpethi. 6.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hoplodoris nodulosa. 5.8 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus. 5.4 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus. 7.2 m.
 

Fanbellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis. 6.7 m.
 

Eye of an octopus, Octopus sp. 7.1 m.
 

Crab. 6.9 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 6.8 m.
 

Cuttlefish, Sepia sp. 6.8 m
 

Bubble shell, Hydatina physis. 6.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.5 m.
 

Commn Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 5.6 m.
 

Green moray eels, Gymnothorax prasinus. 5.1 m.
 

Juvenile eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 5.1 m.
 

Crab. 4.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris denisoni. 4.1 m.
 

Bubble shell, Hydatina physis. 4.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris fumata. 3.9 m.
 

Striped angler, Antennarius striatus. 3.8 m.