Dive Details

Location

Date

11 August, 2013

Time

9:14am - 10:46am

Details

Entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and descended to the reef. Swam to the area where "Honey" used to be and then down to the sand line. Followed the sand line towards The Steps looking carefully for "Honey" or any other seahorses. Didn't find any seahorses but found 2 weedy seadragons.

Turned at around 150 bar and swam back very slowly again along the sand line looking for seahorses. I found a little Jorunna sp,. nudibranch near the area where "Honey" used to be.

I followed the sand line north west checking out split rock along the way. Again there were no seahorses.

I swam to the exact spot where we saw "Jill" yesterday but she was not there. I then swam up the slope to where the tiny painted angler had been and it was still there. It had moved perhaps 30 centimetres from yesterday. I checked the area for seahorses and then swam to the exit on the corner over the rocks.

Buddy

John Keogh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15-20 metres

Duration

91 minutes

Maximum depth

14.0 m

Average depth

11.1 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

4:48am

0.36m

High

11:04am

1.50m

Low

5:01pm

0.51m

High

11:08pm

1.54m

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.

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 12 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.8 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 12 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 12.1 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 12.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Jorunna sp. 12.2 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 12.5 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.6 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.6 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.6 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.6 m.