Dive Details

Location

Date

31 August, 2013

Time

2:38pm - 3:46pm

Details

After a surface interval and lunch on the rocks, we went back to the kayaks and started the second dive much like the first dive.

At "Halle"'s rock, "Bernard" was in the same place and I managed to find "Halle" and "Lee". They were both on the side of the rock. The first few times we'd seen "Halle" she was almost black. Now she was yellow. Odd.

At seahorse rock, I found the 4 seahorses again, but I could not find "Nellie" at split rock. I'm not sure where went. "Desmond" had moved from the gap onto one of the rocks. This was the first time I'd seen him out of the gap.

We swam back via "Halle" and I was able to confirm it was her by seeing the missing eye on her right side. We then swam back to the kayaks, loaded up and paddled back to Frenchmens Beach.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, AJ

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

67 minutes

Maximum depth

15.7 m

Average depth

12.0 m

Water temperature

15.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

4:33am

1.13m

Low

10:06am

0.65m

High

4:45pm

1.48m

Low

11:35pm

0.55m

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.

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 8.5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 8.6 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bernard"). 14,5 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lee"). 14.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Halle"). 14.3 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 14.3 m.
 

Pataecus fronto. -14.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.4 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pedro"). 13.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Nadja"). 13.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lotte"). 13.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Daniela"). 14.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Desmond"). 15.1 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 15.2 m.
 

Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 15.1 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Halle"). 14.1 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Halle"). 13.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 11.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.1 m.