Dive Details

Location

Date

07 December, 2013

Time

7:55am - 8:57am

Details

It was quite rough at The Leap but still diveable, just. I got in on the lower ledge as usual and had only just got both my fins on and was getting ready to jump in when a wave washed me in. All good.

Descended to the sand line and the visibility was only around 5 metres, maybe a bit better. There was quite a bit of surge and a lot of sand was being picked up into the water column.

We made our way towards The Steps. At the rock behind Seahorse Rock we only found "Bob". We couldn't find "Kel" or "Rosie" on the rock. While we were scouting around the surrounding rocks, I found "Lucy" in the finger sponge - although not the same one she'd been on last Sunday. My buddy found "Rosie" on a rock next to the rock that "Bob" was on. We still couldn't find "Kel".

We continued on seeing a weedy seadragon along the way. "Southern Cross" was on her usual rock at the end closest The Leap. We often see her at that end. We managed to find "Richie" who was quite pregnant but were unable to locate "Pierre".

We headed on towards The Steps, seeing another weedy seadragon. We got to the rock where we've seen "Dana", the tiny red painted angler, but could not find it.

We were getting low on air and headed up to the shallows to do our safety stop while swimming to The Steps. As the tide was still quite low, the exit was quite easy.

Seas

Rough

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

21.4 m

Average depth

15.5 m

Water temperature

18.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:20pm

1.41m

Low

6:01am

0.42m

High

12:27pm

1.86m

Low

7:12pm

0.21m

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.

Reaper cuttlefsh, Sepia mestus. 19.8 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 19.6 m.
 

Juvenile female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lucy"). 20 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 20.1 m.
 

Juvenile female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lucy"). 19.6 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 17.5 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 17.5 m.
 

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