Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 19/4/13

Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 19/4/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

19 April, 2013

Time

3:36pm - 4:42pm

Details

This was not a great weekend for diving in Sydney with string winds and huge seas. Shiprock was one of the few places that were diveable and it was even rough there with waves up to 1 metre in front of the swimming pool. Despite the conditions, we thought it was worth a dive as it would probably be the only dive for the weekend.

We entered at the pool and went straight down the wall. Once off the surface, there was little or no water movement other than the slight tidal current. Visibility was not great but considering how it looked on the surface, it was not too bad.

We moved along the wall and around some of the closer bommies. I turned at around 45 minutes and made my way back to the pool, stopping in front of the pool at around 5 metres.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Rough

Visibility

2-3 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

15.6 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

19.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bat AEST

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

High

2:16am

1.45m

Low

9:10am

0.61m

High

3:23pm

1.22m

Low

9:00pm

0.78m

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.