Dive Details

Location

Date

27 September, 2013

Time

8:57am - 10:05am

Details

Looking down on the coast line from The Steps did not look very promising. It wasn't all that rough in close but there was a lot of foam on the surface and the water did not look clear. We decided to dive anyway.

We got in at The Steps and descended into the gloom. The visibility was only around 3 metres and we had to stick pretty close together. We went to the sand line and then headed towards The Leap. At times the visibility got to 5 metres. It took us around 10 minutes to reach the Miamira magnifica nudibranchs that had been seen the day before. They were really quite stunning and large.

We kept on towards The Leap, past the basket star and got as far as the really high rock. The visibility seemed to be getting worse the closer we got to The Leap. We turned at the high rock and headed back along the sand line to the M. magnifica. From here we headed up to 5 metres for a safety stop and exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Peter Jaques

Seas

Surgey

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

15.1 m

Average depth

11.9 m

Water temperature

16.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

1:32am

1.11m

Low

7:14am

0.68m

High

1:49pm

1.41m

Low

8:45pm

0.62m

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.

Nudibranchs, Chromodoris splendida. 12.5 m.
 

Nudibranch, Miamira magnifica. 12.6 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.5 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 13.1 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Neodoris chrysoderma. 14.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Miamira magnifica. 13.3 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 12.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Rostanga arbutus. 13.2 m.