Dive Details
Location
Date
10 May, 2013
Time
12:38pm - 1:42pm
Details
This was a drift dive off the north of Bowen Island. We started at Aztec Reef but drfit through a couple of other sites. On the dive we saw a black ray, a large male grey nurse shark, a long-snout boarfish, 2 weedy seadragon a moorish idol plus a lot more.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
20 metres
Duration
64 minutes
Maximum depth
23.0 m
Average depth
15.9 m
Water temperature
18.7°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx
Tides at Port Kembla AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
2:31am
0.39m
High
8:26am
1.32m
Low
2:05pm
0.50m
High
8:34pm
1.73m
Video
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D7000
Lens
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter
Housing
Ikelite 6801.70
Lens port
Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50
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.
Long-snout boarfish, Pentaceropsis recurvirostris. 19.2 m.
Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 21.3 m.
Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 18.9 m.
Clown toby, Canthigaster callisterna. 18.8 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 14.8 m.
Mosaic sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 15.3 m.
Clown toby, Canthigaster callisterna. 14.3 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 17.8 m.
Sea fan. 18 m.
Roughy, Trachichthys australis. 21.8 m.
Roughy, Trachichthys australis. 21.7 m.
Roughy, Trachichthys australis. 21.8 m.
Common bullseye, Pempheris multiradiata. 20.8 m.
Slender roughy, Optivus elongatus. 20.6 m.
Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 18.5 m.