Dive Details

Location

Date

27 July, 2013

Time

8:40am - 9:55am

Details

We descended the anchor line and headed south along the reef. We came to the rock with "Halle", "Bernard" and "Lee" and there was a Port Jackson shark right next to it. "Halle", "Bernard" and "Lee" were accounted for and we headed off to Seahorse Rock. At Seahorse Rock we found "Daniela", "Pedro", "Nadja" and "Lotte". Sheree spotted a red indianfish on seahorse rock. "Nellie" and "Desmond" were on their usual rock nearby.

We then headed into deeper water in seaerch of weedy seadragons and found a few. We came back up stopping at Seahorse Rock and Halle's rock. Heading back to the anchor we ran into PJ who had found his first of many red indianfish.

We did our safety stop on the anchor line.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

8-10 metres

Duration

74 minutes

Maximum depth

18.4 m

Average depth

13.0 m

Water temperature

15.9°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

5:41am

0.31m

High

11:54am

1.54m

Low

5:53pm

0.51m

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.

Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni. 11 m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 13.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lee"). 13.8 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bernard"). 13.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 13.4 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.5 m.
 

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

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pedro"). 13.4 m.
 

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

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 13.6 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Desmond"). 15 m.
 

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

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.5 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 18 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 13 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.4 m.
 

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

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 13.8 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lee"). 14.2 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Halle"). 13.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bernard"). 13.7 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 13.4 m.