Dive Details

Location

Date

06 July, 2013

Time

10:32am - 11:39am

Details

This was the second dive at Gorgeous Reef. The boat was a bit further north this time and so when we descended we were close to the upturned submerged boat and "Halle"'s rock. When we got to "Halle"'s rock she'd moved to the other end. She was also facing the other way and for the first time we could see she didn't have an eye on her right side. I assume she'd lost it some time ago as it was all healed over. "Bernard" and "Lee" were still pretty much in the same spot they were on the first dive.

We then swam to Seahorse Rock finding a pair of reaper cuttlefish along the way.

At Seahorse Rock we found all 4 seahorses again and the other two were also found close by.

We then headed further south into deeper water. Sheree pointed out a juvenile weedy seadragon and we then came across two adults. Near the adults was a good sized giant cuttlefish who was presenting a wonderful display.

We were both low on air so we made a B-line back to the boat, with a short stop at Seahorse Rock for one more look. We bumped into Joe and Bruce on the way back and Sheree showed "Halle", "Bernard" and "Lee" to them.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

18.8 m

Average depth

13.8 m

Water temperature

17.1°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

1:16am

0.52m

High

7:02am

1.27m

Low

12:34pm

0.58m

High

7:13pm

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.

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bernard"). 13.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Halle"). 13.6 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lee"). 13.5 m.
 

ünther's butterflyfish, Chaetodon guentheri. 13.9 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.8 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.6 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.4 m.
 

Tube worm. 13.8 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 13.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lotte"). 13.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nellie"). 14.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nellie"). 14.6 m.
 

Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.4 m.
 

Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.4 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 18.4 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 18.4 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 18.5 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 18.4 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 18.3 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pedro"). 13.1 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lotte"). 13.1 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 13 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.1 m.