Dive Details
Location
Date
24 August, 2013
Time
9:02am - 10:20am
Details
Entered at The Leap and swam straight down to the sand line. Drifted along the sand line to Seahorse Rock. Found "Bob" and "Kel" on the rock behind Seahorse Rock but could not find "Rosie".
There was a beautiful reaper cuttlefish on the rock above the rock with the seahorses.
Drifted towards The Steps. Found "Southern Cross", "Richie" and "Pierre" pretty much where they had been last week. There was also a reaper cuttlefish there as there was last week.
Continued along the sand line finding a juvenile weedy seadragon along the way. Also found the basket star from last week and it was opening up.
I moved up into the sand on the middle tier at around 10 metres and came across a huge smooth stingray (see video). There was also a male weedy seadragon that had only recently hatched its eggs.
Exited at The Steps.
Buddy
George Borovskis
Seas
Flat
Visibility
15+ metres
Duration
78 minutes
Maximum depth
22.4 m
Average depth
14.7 m
Water temperature
15.6°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
4:20am
0.25m
High
10:32am
1.61m
Low
4:38pm
0.38m
High
10:46pm
1.59m
Video
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.
Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 21.7 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 20.3 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 21.2 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 18.3 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 18.4 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 18.3 m.
Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18.9 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 18.3 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.9 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 18 m.
Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.1 m.
Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.2 m.
Juvenile weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 17.2 m.
Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 14.1 m.
Sea star, Petricia vernicina. 14.2 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 15.1 m.
Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 14.3 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 12.9 m.