Dive Details

Location

Date

25 April, 2013

Time

8:41am - 9:44am

Details

Entered at The Steps and headed against the current towards The Monument. The dive was somewhat ruined by my mask fogging up. Stayed just up from the sand line looking on the rocks for seahorses. Saw two weedy seadragons and a juvenile giant cuttlefish.

Got to the area where I'd seen the seahorses "Trevor" and "Honey" previously. Searched the area and managed to find "Trevor" in the same location as on 1 April but could not find "Honey".

Turned around and rode the current back to The Steps.

Buddy

Peter Jaques

Seas

Calm

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

62 minutes

Maximum depth

11.7 m

Average depth

9.5 m

Water temperature

18.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

1:35am

0.35m

High

7:35am

1.60m

Low

1:36pm

0.34m

High

8:00pm

1.85m

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. 6.7 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 10.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 11.3 m.
 

Juvenile giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 11.3 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Trevor"). 9.8 m.
 

Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 7.3 m.