Dive Details

Location

Date

28 July, 2013

Time

9:22am - 10:28am

Details

Entered at The Steps and descended to the sand line. We headed south-east toward The Leap carefully inspecting all the sponge covered rocks for seahorses and anglerfish. Unfortunately, we didn't find any. We did see a few Port Jackson sharks, lots of weedy seadragons and a few cuttlefish. We turned around half way to The Leap and swam back to The Steps a little shallower. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

16.9 m

Average depth

11.5 m

Water temperature

16.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

12:00am

1.57m

Low

6:25am

0.41m

High

12:44pm

1.52m

Low

6:51pm

0.60m

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.

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 14.4 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 13.9 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 13.1 m.
 

Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.7 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 10.3 m.