Dive Details
Location
Date
13 September, 2013
Time
6:30pm - 8:16pm
Details
Entered at the beach and immediately had camera problems. I was trying to take a photo of a cuttlefish when the auto focus was confused by some particulate matter and completely extended the lens. I then couldn't get the camera to focus on anything and the shutter is so sensitive I was just taking photos while trying to focus. I then remembered I could configure the AE Lock button to focus and was able to use that to get the lens back without taking any photos. After that the camera behaved.
Moved along the right hand side through the rocks and out as far as the pile of bricks. Turned and headed back over the sand and seagrass.
Once we got to the clean sand, we found at least two striped pyjama squid, a school of luminous bay squid and one or two southern bottletail squid.
Exited at the beach.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
5 metres
Duration
106 minutes
Maximum depth
4.9 m
Average depth
3.2 m
Water temperature
16.9°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Camp Cove AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
1:59am
1.22m
Low
7:49am
0.53m
High
2:27pm
1.56m
Low
9:13pm
0.44m
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.
Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 1.8 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.4 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.4 m.
Fan-bellied leatherjacket, Monacanthus chinensis. 2.4 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 2.5 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.9 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 2.9 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 3.9 m.
Eye of a common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.1 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.5 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 4.2 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 4.3 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.5 m.
Luminous bay squid, Loliolus noctiluca. 3 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2.9 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.1 m.
Flathead, Platycephalus. 3.4 m.
Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.3 m.
Flathead, Platycephalus. 3.9 m.
Sothern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 4.3 m.
Sothern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 4.2 m.
Flathead, Platycephalus. 4.2 m.
Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 2 m.
Flathead, Platycephalus. 1.4 m.