Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 26/5/13

Dive at Shiprock, Port Hacking, NSW on 26/5/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

26 May, 2013

Time

8:43am - 10:08am

Details

Entered at the pool and descended the wall. Poked around the smaller bommies for a while and then headed back to the wall. There was a large Port Jackson shark in the cave where the pineapplefish live. They didn't seem too happy and were mostly out of the cave.

Headed along the wall and found a large number of octopus at various points along the wall. Didn't see many cuttlefish except for one crevice which had 5 small ones and one larger one.

Turned and came back along the wall. Saw a few moray eels on the way back with one in particular that didn't seem to mind having its photo taken.

Did a long safety stop in the shallows watching a juvenile triggerfish not sure whether to hide from me or not. Exited at the pool.

Unfortunately, my dive watch thought it didn't have sufficient charge and only logged the first 32 minutes. I had to determine the duration of the dive from the time of the last photograph.

Buddy

Peter Jaques

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

84 minutes

Maximum depth

15.8 m

Water temperature

19.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:03am

0.20m

High

9:02am

1.51m

Low

2:44pm

0.39m

High

9:15pm

2.07m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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.