Dive Details

Location

Date

18 August, 2013

Time

12:56pm - 2:02pm

Details

Entered at The Leap and swam down to the sand line. My dry suit was self inflating again so I had to disconnect it shortly after I got to the sand line. I was already under 200 bar.

We swam along the sand line looking for anglers and seahorses. I found a weedy seadragon along the way. We found "Bob" on the rock behind seahorse rock and "Kel" was hanging on to a sponge just below the rock. We could not find "Rosie" at all.

We drift along to "Southern Cross" and found "Richie" and "Pierre". It took us a while to find "Southern Cross" as she was on the side of the rock. At both seahorse locations we noticed a lot of filamentous algae of a brown colour covering the rocks.

Further along from "Southern Cross" I found a hunting cuttlefish and then a male weedy seadragon with eggs.

We drifted shallower and existed at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Peter Jaques

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

21.4 m

Average depth

14.5 m

Water temperature

16.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

5:34am

1.32m

Low

11:15am

0.42m

High

5:53pm

1.83m

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.

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 21 m.
 

Weed seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.8 m.
 

Weed seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 21 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 19.6 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 20.3 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 20.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18.3 m.
 

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

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 17.4 m.
 

Hunting reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.6 m.
 

Eggs on a male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.5 m.
 

Weed seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.4 m.
 

Eggs on a male weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 16.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.5 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 14.2 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.2 m.