Dive Details

Location

Date

15 September, 2013

Time

12:42pm - 1:42pm

Details

It was quite rough with a largish swell but the swell was not large enough to leap from the upper shelf and I had to get in from the lower one. I was nearly washed off the shelf twice before jumping in with only one fin. It was very rough on the surface. We descended to the sand line and while it was not as rough, there was still quite a bit of surge and a lot of sand kicked up. The visibility was between 5 and 10 metres but the sand in the water made it look worse.

At the sand line we found male weedy seadragon that had recently dropped its babies and a small wobbegong. We made our way towards The Steps. Before we got to seahorse rock we found another weedy seadragon. Behind seahorse rock we only found 2 seahorses, "Rosie" and "Bob". "Kel" was not seen. It was very surgy with the seahorses.

We moved on to "Southern Cross" seeing a large Port Jackson shark along the way. We found "Southern Cross", "Richie" and "Pierre" in their usual location. There was a lot of surge around them, too.

On our way to The Steps we saw two more weedy seadragons, including another male who had recently dropped his babies. We exited at The Steps which was a bit of a challenge.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Duration

54 minutes

Maximum depth

21.6 m

Average depth

14.5 m

Water temperature

17.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

4:23am

1.26m

Low

10:05am

0.50m

High

4:40pm

1.67m

Low

11:24pm

0.32m

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.

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 21 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 20.7 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 19.9 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 19.8 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 20 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18 m.
 

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

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 17.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17.5 m.