Dive Details

Location

Date

10 June, 2013

Time

8:47am - 9:41am

Details

Entered from the boat out from and a bit south of the normal entry point for The Leap. We had wanted to enter out from the normal entry point but we were drifting quite quickly on the surface. We descended to the sand and had to swim west to the sand line. At the sand line we headed south along the sand line.

It was very interesting to go in the opposite direction to normal although as the tide was still rising we had to swim into quite a strong current. I was hoping to see seahorses but we saw none. We did see a number of cuttlefish.

We did our safety stop at 5 metres when we hit 50 bar and the boat picked us up from the surface. I want to do this dive again but start from a bit further north.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Graeme Heard

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

21.1 m

Average depth

16.2 m

Water temperature

18.8°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

3:27am

0.45m

High

9:23am

1.33m

Low

2:52pm

0.60m

High

9:23pm

1.79m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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.

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 19.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 19.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 19.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 19.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 19.5 m.
 

Sea star, Petricia vernicina. 18.6 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 20.3 m.