Dive Details
Location
Date
Saturday 9 November 2013
Time
9:33am - 10:48am
Details
The plan for this dive was to do the eastern side of Bare Island. I have only done that on a few times as I usually dive west or south of the island. Peter was going to lead the dive. I also wanted to see anglers at Bare Island as I'd never seen them there before. While we were getting reading we started chatting with, Nick Missenden, a dive instructor from Sydney Dive Academy. He was telling us where to find anglers and pygmy pipehorses on the eastern side. While his directions were excellent, they were difficult for me to take in as I don't know that part of Bare Island at all. Nevertheless, I did take some of it onboard.
We entered the water on eastern side of the island, near the pole. Peter initially took us south and we found some really nice sponge gardens. He then realised we were in the wrong spot and took us north past the entry point. We came on a wall on our left with a number of deep crevices. As we approached a swim-through it started to look familiar based on Nick's description. He had mentioned an angler in a hole and so I looked for the hole and sure enough found a light coloured angler in a hole.
Once the angler was found, I started looking for the area where he said there were pygmy pipehorses. Unfortunately, we were heading in the opposite direction from his directions, although I did end up looking in areas where pygmy pipehorses have been seen. We circled back along the wall a few times and then continued north towards the bridge.
We swam under the bridge and exited at the ramp on the north of the island, to the west of the bridge.
Buddy
Wayne Ladkin
Seas
Slight
Visibility
10 metres
Duration
74 minutes
Maximum depth
11.5 m
Average depth
8.7 m
Water temperature
17.5°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
1:33am
1.32m
Low
7:13am
0.52m
High
1:39pm
1.70m
Low
8:32pm
0.32m
Video
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.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 10.7 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.2 m.
Undescribed angler. 8.6 m.
Undescribed angler. 8.5 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 10.1 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 10.1 m.
Undescribed angler. 8.6 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 9.2 m.