Dive Details

Location

Date

14 April, 2013

Time

9:41am - 10:56am

Details

Entered at The Steps, went down to the sand line and then headed towards The Leap. We looked carefully over the sponge covered boulders looking for seahorses and other interesting critters. We found no seahorses but did find a couple of basket stars, lots of octopus, a weedy seadragon and an angler.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

74 minutes

Maximum depth

14.8 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

20.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:51am

0.48m

High

10:50am

1.32m

Low

4:27pm

0.60m

High

10:54pm

1.65m

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 Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 11.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 11.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 10.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 13.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 11.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.1 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 14.3 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.3 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 13.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 10.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.7 m.
 

Undescribed anglerfish. 13.1 m.
 

Undescribed anglerfish. 13.4 m.
 

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 12.1 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 10.5 m.