Dive Details

Location

Date

13 October, 2013

Time

9:38am - 10:58am

Details

Entered the water at the beach next to the pool and headed out under the pier. The camera battery was low (from the two dives on the previous day) so I had to be conservative with my photography. We followed the nets around the corner but did not find much of interest.

We returned from around the corner and headed into deeper water under the pier. Here Sheree found a number of pipefish (and I found one) as well as lots of seahorses. On the way back I found another tiny painted angler, the fifth in as many weeks.

On the way back along the nets I found 3 male mourning cuttlefish courting a single female. All the males were displaying their typical "male" pattern and all trying to get close to the female. I did not see any copulation going on. Perhaps I should have stayed to watch.

Exited at the beach next to the pool.

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

79 minutes

Maximum depth

7.7 m

Average depth

4.1 m

Water temperature

19.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT

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

High

4:01am

1.25m

Low

9:45am

0.56m

High

4:14pm

1.56m

Low

10:49pm

0.35m

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.

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 3.8 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.3 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 5 m.
 

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 5.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Plocamorpherus imperialis. 6.6 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 7.1 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 6.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 5.9 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 6.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris denisoni. 5.3 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.7 m.
 

Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.5 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 4.4 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 4.3 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 3.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Jorunna parva. 3.3 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.2 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.2 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.2 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.3 m.