Dive Details

Location

Date

21 June, 2013

Time

5:44pm - 7:25pm

Details

Usual night dive at Camp Cove. Entered at the beach and headed along the shallows following the reef north. Turned and came back to the seagrass and headed out onto the sand to find cephalopods. Found a southern bobtail squid for the first time. Exited at the beach.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

100 minutes

Maximum depth

6.2 m

Average depth

4.3 m

Water temperature

17.1°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

12:03am

0.43m

High

5:55am

1.44m

Low

11:45am

0.41m

High

6:22pm

1.90m

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.

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.3 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 2.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 4 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 4.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 4.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 4.3 m.
 

Stingaree. 3.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 5.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlfish, Sepia mestus. 5.6 m.
 

Octopus, Octopus sp. 6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.3 m.
 

Eastern gobbleguts. Vincentia novaehollandiae. 5.1 m.
 

Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 4 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.7 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.6 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.9 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.9 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.8 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.5 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.5 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.6 m.
 

Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.7 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 3.4 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.3 m.