Dive at Gorgeous Reef, Henry Head, NSW on 10/6/13

Dive at Gorgeous Reef, Henry Head, NSW on 10/6/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

10 June, 2013

Time

11:30am - 12:48pm

Details

Jumped off the boat and descended to the sand. Followed the reef to the south. There were many boulders covered in the sort of sponges that seahorses seem to prefer. We checked out each boulder carefully looking for seahorses. It was some time into the dive before we found the first seahorse, a black female. A bit further along we found a single boulder with 4 or 5 seahorses. (I'm sure I originally counted 5 (there were two on the one sponge) but when I counted again I could only fined 4.) Not far from that boulder we found two more seahorses.

Further along the reef, Sheree found a weedy seadragon and a bubble shell. We turned at around 70 bar and headed back to the boat doing our safety stop among the rocks near the boat.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Graeme Heard

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

78 minutes

Maximum depth

17.1 m

Average depth

12.3 m

Water temperature

17.7°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.