Dive Details

Location

Date

26 April, 2013

Time

6:35pm - 8:13pm

Details

Entered at the beach next to the pier. Went straight under the pier and found a blue-lined octopus on the net within a minute of submerging. Followed the nets under the pier until they went around the corner and then followed the pier into the deeper areas. Pottered around the pylons and then back under the pier to the beach.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Flat

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

94 minutes

Maximum depth

8.6 m

Average depth

4.8 m

Water temperature

20.0°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

2:20am

0.28m

High

8:22am

1.61m

Low

2:17pm

0.34m

High

8:43pm

1.94m

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.

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 0.6 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 1.1 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 1.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 1.8 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 1 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 1.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris gunnamatta. 3.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.7 m.
 

Sole, Aseraggodes sp. 7.9 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 7.2 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 8.2 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Aphelodoris varia. 6.9 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 7.1 m.
 

Sponge decorator crab, Hyastenus elatus. 6.9 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 6.9 m.
 

Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 6.7 m.
 

Bubble snails, Hydatina physis. 6.5 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 6.2 m.
 

Bubble snail, Hyastenus elatus. 4.6 m.
 

Red-lined bubble snail, Bullina lineata. 4.1 m.
 

Red-lined bubble snail, Bullina lineata. 4.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris fumata. 4.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.7 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 1.6 m.