Dive Details

Location

Date

30 August, 2013

Time

6:16pm - 8:10pm

Details

Entered next to the pool and followed the pool out and around the corner to the wall. Followed the wall for a while and then went out into the bay on the sand. There was a lot more to see on the sand, including mourning cuttlefish, many striped pyjama squid, luminous bay squid and a southern dumpling squid. Came back to the pool and then went along the beach in the shallows finding a lot more striped pyjama squid and another southern dumpling squid. Exited at the boat ramp.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

111 minutes

Maximum depth

4.5 m

Average depth

3.0 m

Water temperature

16.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

High

3:20am

1.08m

Low

9:02am

0.65m

High

3:44pm

1.41m

Low

10:37pm

0.60m

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.

Red-line bubble shell, Bullina lineata. 1.9 m.
 

Crab. 3 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.3 m.
 

Juvenile eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 2.6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 2.2 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 2.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.2 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.5 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.5 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.6 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.6 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.3 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.4 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.4 m.
 

Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 4.3 m.
 

Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 4.3 m.
 

Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 4.2 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 2.5 m.
 

Eye of a stingaree. 3.4 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.1 m.
 

Flathead. 3.5 m.
 

Chelipeds of a crustacean in the sand. 3.6 m.
 

Luminous bay squid, Loliolus noctiluca. 3.5 m.
 

Luminous bay squid, Loliolus noctiluca. 3.6 m.
 

Luminous bay squid, Loliolus noctiluca. 3.4 m.
 

Luminous bay squid, Loliolus noctiluca. 3.6 m.
 

Luminous bay squid, Loliolus noctiluca. 3.6 m.
 

Arm of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 1.9 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 1.3 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 1 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 1.3 m.
 

Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 1.6 m.
 

Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 1.7 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 1.9 m.
 

Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2 m.
 

Juvenile eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 1.5 m.
 

Flathead. 1.3 m.