Dive Details

Location

Date

22 September, 2013

Time

8:38am - 9:40am

Details

Entered at The Leap and descended to the sand line. Swam along the sand line to Seahorse Rock. Found "Kel", "Rosie" and "Bob" on the rock behind Seahorse Rock. It was now over 2 years since I first saw "Bob". I first saw him on Seahorse Rock on 18 September 2011.

We swam along the sand line to "Southern Cross". We found her, "Richie" and "Pierre". "Pierre" was very pregnant and looks like he was going to release the babies at any moment. It was now over 2 years since I'd first seen "Southern Cross" and exactly one year since I'd first seen "Richie". I first saw "Southern Cross" on 18 September 2011 and "Richie" on 22 September 2012.

We continued along the sand line. Ian and John saw a large school of Australian salmon, possibly the same one we saw at The Steps on Saturday. I was a little further ahead and did not see them. We got as far as the basket star and then headed to the shallows for a safety stop. On the safety stop I saw what was either a nudibranch or a flatworm. I'm still trying to get it identified.

We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Ian Jackson

Seas

Slight - but some surge

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

61 minutes

Maximum depth

22.0 m

Average depth

15.5 m

Water temperature

15.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:42am

0.32m

High

10:00am

1.67m

Low

4:16pm

0.35m

High

10:20pm

1.45m

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

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.

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 20.2 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 20.7 m.
 

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

Eye of a stingaree. 21 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18.5 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 18.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 17.7 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 18.1 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 18.3 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 17 m.
 

Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 16.2 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.6 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.9 m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 13.2 m.