Dive Details
Location
Date
02 August, 2013
Time
5:18pm - 6:34pm
Details
Entered at the pool and descended the wall. Went along the wall as far as the pineapplefish and then went out onto the sand. Spent most of the dive on the sand and then came back to the wall to return. Did safety stop on the sand on top of the wall and exited at the pool.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Flat
Visibility
5 metres
Duration
75 minutes
Maximum depth
15.8 m
Average depth
9.6 m
Water temperature
16.1°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx
Tides at Botany Bay
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
5:03am
1.16m
Low
10:36am
0.63m
High
5:21pm
1.57m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D7000
Lens
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D
Housing
Ikelite 6801.70
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.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.7 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.5 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 14.5 m.
Decorator crab. 14 m.
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.8 m.
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 12.9 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 10.5 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 10.6 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 10.5 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 10.7 m.
Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 10.5 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 9.3 m.
Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 9.3 m.
Feeding tentacles of a sea cucmber. 8.8 m.
Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 8.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 8.8 m.
Sea cucumber, 7.8 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 9.2 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 10.8 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11.1 m.
Fortesque, Centropogon australis. 4.5 m.
Green moray eel,. Gymnothorax prasinus. 2.7 m.
Sea anemone, Phlyctenanthus australis. 2 m.
Eleven-armed sea star, Coscinasterias muricata. 1.9 m.