Dive Details

Location

Date

28 November, 2013

Time

12:45pm - 1:42pm

Details

We jumped in at The Leap and headed to the sand line. It was quite surgy and took a lot of effort just to get to the sand line. I was already below 200 bar by the time we got there.

We headed towards The Steps and again it was heavy going. At the rock behind Seahorse Rock we found "Kel", "Bob" and "Rosie". It was good to see "Rosie" again because we couldn't find her last time. We experimented with taking measurements of the seahorses using my pointer which I'd painted grey and added lines at 5cm intervals. It was difficult in the surge. We'll have to try again when it is a bit calmer.

A bit further on Sheree found "Lucy", one of the juvenile female pot-bellied seahorses we'd found last time. We couldn't find "Bippy", but then we didn't look that hard because of the surge. Sheree also managed to find a Ceratosoma brevicaudatum nudibranch and a velvet fish.

We continued on to "Southern Cross", finding her and "Pierre" and "Richie", also trying measuring them. By this time I was already down to around 70 bar so we needed to make a bee-line for The Steps. Sheree just had time to find the tiny painted angler, "Dana", I found last time.

After this we cruised up to 5 metres and swam to The Steps, surfacing just short. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

56 minutes

Maximum depth

21.3 m

Average depth

15.1 m

Water temperature

19.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

5:07am

1.38m

Low

11:13am

0.65m

High

5:10pm

1.35m

Low

11:27am

0.45m

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.

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 20.8 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris tasmaniensis. 20.3 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 19.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 19.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 19.2 m.
 

Velvetfish, Aploactisoma milesii. 20.3 m.
 

Juvenile female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lucy"). 20.2 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. 17.5 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 17.6 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Pierre"). 17.2 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 17.3 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus, ("Dana"). 13.7 m.