Dive Details

Location

Date

29 September, 2013

Time

1:44pm - 2:51pm

Details

This time Kylie joined us in the search for the angler. Hopefully she remembers where it was.

We entered at The Steps and descended to the sand line. This time we headed in over the kelp covered rocks where all the Port Jackson sharks were resting. In a short time, Kylie found the angler. While Kylie was taking photographs of this angler (now called "Big John" in memory of her father), I noticed a tine orange painted angler on the side of the rock next to the one with "Big John". This new angler we'll call "Little Andrew".

After taking some photographs of the anglers, we headed to the Miamira magnifica nudibranch so Peter good shoot some video. After playing around there for a while we headed back to the anglers for some more photographs.

We were close to the The Steps so it was only a short swim and safety stop to exit.

Buddy

George Borovskis

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3-6 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

14.3 m

Average depth

11.2 m

Water temperature

15.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

3:56am

1.14m

Low

9:30am

0.69m

High

4:00pm

1.42m

Low

10:46pm

0.54m

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.

Undescribed angler ("Big John"). 11.8 m.
 

Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Andrew"). 12.6 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.6 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 13.6 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Big John"). 12.1 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Big John"). 11.9 m.
 

Painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Andrew"). 12.8 m.