Dive Details

Location

Date

14 July, 2013

Time

12:38pm - 1:44pm

Details

We entered to the left of the gravel loader and swam past the rocks to the first piers. There was a lot of a red coloured alga in the water and you could not see the bottom. Once we descended below the algal layer the visibility was actually quite good, being able to see the next set of piers from the current ones. We swam all the way out to the end but didn't see any giant cuttlefish, which is what we'd planned to see. We swam around at the end and a large smooth stingray swam past with an eagle ray just behind it.

We headed to the west and came across a single giant cuttlefish. It didn't hang around at all and swam off. I started to follow it but lost it when I was distracted by seeing the eagle ray again. I tried to find it but to no avail.

We swam back along the western side of the loader under the algal bloom and exited at the rocks.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Gary Cummins

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

11.1 m

Average depth

8.6 m

Water temperature

16.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Port Kembla AEST

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

Low

6:01am

0.39m

High

12:21pm

1.34m

Low

6:08pm

0.62m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Tokina AT-X Pro 12-24mm f/4 +4 dipoter

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.51

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.

Mosaic sea star, Plectaster decanus. 10.6 m.
 

Giant cuttlfish, Sepia apama. 10.3 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 10.3 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 10.2 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 8 m.