Dive Details

Location

Date

03 November, 2013

Time

7:38am - 9:01am

Details

Entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and descended to the sponge garden. I found a new yellow form painted angler, "Jean", almost immediately, but couldn't be sure it was new until we also found "Oliver" and "Beverley". After locating the original rock on which Sheree had found "Oliver", I was able to locate the rock on which I found "Oliver" last week. "Oliver" was still there. As we watched "Oliver", a nudibranch was approaching its mouth and then "Oliver" yawned. I suspect it may have been a reaction to the nudibranch. The nudibranch floated off and "Oliver" kept yawning.

We then headed towards The Steps to find "Little Sebastien", the tiny yellow painted angler and also to look for "Honey", a female pot-bellied seahorse. We found "Little Sebastien" on his usual rock but still could not find "Honey".

We turned and headed back towards The Monument on the way we saw a couple of weedy seadragons. We checked on "Oliver" and relocated "Jean". We then headed to split rock to find "Beverley", another yellow form undescribed angler. "Beverley" was on the same adjacent rock as last week.

We continued towards the corner and looked for "Earl", a grey form undescribed angler, and "Lesley", a tiny red painted angler. We couldn't find "Earl" but I did find "Lesley" partially hidden in the weed on the rock I'd found it previously.

We next looked for our seahorses but couldn't find any. We went around the corner and along the wall. I was looking for "Angus", the tiny orange painted angler but was running low on air and did not have time to look carefully. We then headed for the beach and exited there after a safety safety stop.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10+ metres

Duration

82 minutes

Maximum depth

14.1 m

Average depth

10.6 m

Water temperature

19.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

2:15am

0.31m

High

8:38am

1.76m

Low

3:03pm

0.25m

High

9:02pm

1.51m

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 ("Jean"). 11.5 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Oliver"). 11.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 10.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris tasmaniensis. 10.6 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Sebastien"). 12.3 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Little Sebastien"). 12.2 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 12.9 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Oliver"). 11.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.9 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Jean"). 11.8 m.
 

Undescribed angler ("Beverley"). 12.3 m.
 

Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 11.4 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Lesley"). 12.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 10.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Okenia hallucigenia. 11.6 m.