Dive Details

Location

Date

03 August, 2013

Time

12:48pm - 1:39pm

Details

Entered from the ledge at The Leap and descended to the sand line. Sheree found a weedy seadragon almost immediately and then a goblinfish which I missed. We drifted with the current to Seahorse Rock and found "Rosie", "Bob" and "Kel" on the rock behind Seahorse Rock. There was a lot of surge and the current was pretty strong making photography quite difficult.

We then drifted on the current to "Southern Cross" finding a Port Jackson shark and a juvenile weedy on the way. I found "Pierre", the new male, and "Richie" quite quickly but could not find "Southern Cross". We looked for a while and eventually Sheree found her. I was down to 70 bar at this point, partly because I started on 200 bar but mostly because my drysuit inflator was playing up again. I disconnected it at this point to preserve my air.

We then headed into shallower water and did our safety stop, surfacing just before The Steps. The exit at The Steps was not easy due to the surge.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

50 minutes

Maximum depth

21.8 m

Average depth

15.2 m

Water temperature

16.9°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

12:11am

0.57m

High

5:56am

1.20m

Low

11:28am

0.60m

High

6:07pm

1.62m

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. 20.9 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 21.5 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.5 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 20 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 20.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 19.7 m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 19.6 m.
 

Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 19 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 17.5 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18.2 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 17.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 17.3 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.8 m.